-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 29. Mai 2009 05:13:28 schrieb Andrew Hawryluk: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Neil Puttock <n.putt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Adding the context property to switch between the two alignments was a > > quick hack with a serious limitation: if set to align with note > > columns, tempo marks disappear completely when attached to > > multi-measure rests. > > > > A proper solution should be able to determine automatically when to > > attach the tempo mark to prefatory material (favouring time > > signatures) or note columns. > > Would the 'automatic' alignment rule be something like this? > > if (tempo mark occurs on first beat of measure): > align to prefatory material > else: > align to note column > > Or is that over-simplifying things?
No that's not really over-simplifying. Gardner Read says: "Actual notation of tempo marks involves few problems. The general terms are placed over the uppermost staff -- well above beams, flags, slurs and accents -- at the beginning of the composition or at appropriate points during the course of the music. The initial letter of the term (usually a capital) customarily is aligned over the meter signature, or -- if none is present -- over the first notational element of the measure, such as note-heads, accidentals, repeat signs, and so on." What Gardner Read does not describe is where it should go with mid-measure tempo marks. I suppose the general rule should be to align to a time signature (if present) and to the note column otherwise. The problem with note column is the alignment on full- and multi-measure rests (as I showed in my previous mail), since the rests are not printed at the beginning of the measure but centered. In that case, I suppose the tempo mark should be aligned somewhere at the beginning of the measure rather than at the rest... Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKH5PJTqjEwhXvPN0RAn8KAKCQApROBBlnG9hj59u2sl5NQtu+sQCgtR9o Wo6oEXk/kK9q0MFRO9lYk3c= =dsAm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
