Although many scores use a similar italic font for "rit.", "accel." etc. as they do for dynamic changes such as "cresc.", I prefer to use an upright bold font - the same as for other tempo markings such as "Allegro".
The easiest way for me to do this (at least until now) is to use '\tempo "rit."' or similar. However, I have now discovered that this does not work too well when the mark comes at the beginning of a bar which has a time- and/or a key-signature, because the marking then comes above the signature. This is fine for a normal tempo marking such as "Allegro", but looks wrong for "rit." or "accel.", which I would prefer to appear above the first note of the bar. I have tried \once \override Score.MetronomeMark.X-offset = #4 \tempo "rit.", but this is unreliable: it works some of the time, but does not work correctly at the beginning of a line; also a clef change seems to upset things. And since a clef change will not exist in all the parts, I cannot use different values of MetronomeMark.X-offset to get around this problem. Clearly, rather than trying to fake it with horizontal shifting, I need actually to align the tempo mark with the note itself, but I haven't managed to work out how to do that. How can it be done? David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user