Tempo markings and tempo dynamics

2010-03-29 Thread Phil Holmes
I have been creating a score that frequently has a "rall" marking followed by "a tempo" to get the performers back up to speed. I spent a while being mystified as to where my "a tempo" markings had gone, and then realised that LilyPond ignores them, since they are all the same. I checked and f

Re: Tempo markings and tempo dynamics

2010-03-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Phil, > I checked and found that I create the "rall" marking as a \markup, as > suggested in the documentation. Where is this suggestion? All tempo indications should really be in MetronomeMarkup if possible -- here's an example of how I do it, with some Scheme functions to help out: tempo

Re: Tempo markings and tempo dynamics

2010-03-29 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 29. März 2010 22:10:25 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi Phil, > > > I checked and found that I create the "rall" marking as a \markup, as > > suggested in the documentation. > > Where is this suggestion? In older versions of lilypond, text

Re: Tempo markings and tempo dynamics

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Reinhold" == Reinhold Kainhofer writes: Reinhold> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reinhold> Am Montag, 29. März 2010 22:10:25 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: >> Hi Phil, >> >> > I checked and found that I create the "rall" marking as a >> \markup, as > suggested in the documentat

Re: Tempo markings and tempo dynamics

2010-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 29. März 2010 22:10:25 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Phil, I checked and found that I create the "rall" marking as a \markup, as suggested in the documentation. Where is this suggestion? In older versions of

Re: Tempo markings and tempo dynamics

2010-03-30 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Paul, > The main reason I don't always use \tempo is that I often must use \mark to > avoid the behavior > one gets when the tempo mark falls over a multi-measure rest and gets > centered there. (I also don't often need MIDI output). I have the same problems, but use \tempo anyway (because

Re: Tempo markings and tempo dynamics

2010-03-31 Thread Robin Bannister
Paul Scott wrote: If anyone has an acceptable solution for this I would appreciate hearing about it. Inserting a grace spacer is fairly painless (unless it triggers issue 34). Cheers, Robin { \compressFullBarRests R1 \tempo "rall" \grace s1 R1*20 R1 \tempo "a tempo" \

Re: Tempo markings and tempo dynamics

2010-04-03 Thread Paul Scott
Robin Bannister wrote: Paul Scott wrote: If anyone has an acceptable solution for this I would appreciate hearing about it. Inserting a grace spacer is fairly painless (unless it triggers issue 34). Wow!! How did you figure that out? Thanks, Paul _