Re: tempo indication without parentheses

2022-12-17 Thread Paul Scott
Thank you.  I'm sure I could make definition in my shortcuts file but as I mentioned in the other part of this thread the extra set of curly brackets works fine. Thank you all for your work on this, Paul On 12/17/22 6:23 PM, Valentin Petzel wrote: Hello Paul, formatting of the Metronome

Re: tempo indication without parentheses

2022-12-17 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello Paul, formatting of the Metronome Marks is done by a function taking the event and the context given by the context property metronomeMarkFormatter. If we look into ly/engraver-init.ly we see the default behaviour: metronomeMarkFormatter = #format-metronome-markup The scheme function

Re: tempo indication without parentheses

2022-12-17 Thread Paul Scott
Thank you, Here's what I have in one of my files of shortcuts: #(define-markup-command (MM layout props dura beats) (ly:duration? string?)   (interpret-markup layout props    (markup     #:tiny #:raise 0.4 (#:note dura up)     #:tiny "="     #:tiny beats   ))) Paul

Re: tempo indication without parentheses

2022-12-17 Thread William Rehwinkel
Dear Paul, I wasn't able to find any vanilla lilypond options to do that for you. Of course I assume that you were talking about a situation in which you have text followed by the quarter=number tempo, because just `\tempo 4 = 120` does display without parenthesis. The best I could find was

Re: Tempo Indication

2016-08-18 Thread David Kastrup
"Mark Stephen Mrotek" writes: > David, > > K 331 was composed in 1783, the variations in 1799, so Beethoven might > (should) have known it > So delicious to discover all of the "behind the scenes" elements of this > music! Ok, I looked at your link. It's definitely not a

RE: Tempo Indication

2016-08-18 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
16 8:35 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek <carsonm...@ca.rr.com> Cc: 'lilypond-user' <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Subject: Re: Tempo Indication [Sort of already wrote that in private communication, sorry for the duplication] David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: > "Mark Stephen M

Re: Tempo Indication

2016-08-18 Thread David Kastrup
[Sort of already wrote that in private communication, sorry for the duplication] David Kastrup writes: > "Mark Stephen Mrotek" writes: > >> Hello, >> >> >> >> Admittedly my inquiry is not directly related to the use of Lilypond. Yet >> the members of this

RE: Tempo Indication

2016-08-18 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
To: David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> Cc: Mark Stephen Mrotek <carsonm...@ca.rr.com>; lilypond-user <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Subject: Re: Tempo Indication Hi Mark, I guess it means "not seriously, like a folk song, much lighter than a Beethoven piece". My personal opinion. The

Re: Tempo Indication

2016-08-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Mark, I guess it means "not seriously, like a folk song, much lighter than a Beethoven piece". My personal opinion. The whole variations are pretty funny ( http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/2/28/IMSLP51439-PMLP16877-WoO_73.pdf ). Cheers, Pierre 2016-08-18 7:17 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup

Re: Tempo Indication

2016-08-17 Thread David Kastrup
"Mark Stephen Mrotek" writes: > Hello, > > > > Admittedly my inquiry is not directly related to the use of Lilypond. Yet > the members of this list are the most knowledgeable to answer. > > > > A Beethoven piano variation has the tempo marking "alla Austriaca." > > >