On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 5:55 AM Martin Tarenskeen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi LilyPonders, > > I have a score where I would like to vertically shift a metronome marking ( > \time 4=100 ) just a little bit more away from the staff. And for > completeness, how can I shift the horizontal position if I ever would need to? > > In most cases the default placement is fine, but in my current score it looks > a bit cluttered. > > I have checked the manual but didn't know where to look.
Start at the Internals Reference. https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/internals/index#top Look at All Layout Objects: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/internals/all-layout-objects Find the MetronomeMark entry: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/internals/metronomemark This shows you can add X-offset and Y-offset to the Metronome mark. That would be the first thing to try. You might also try outside-staff-horizontal-padding which will raise the metronome mark if it is too close to an adjacent outside-staff item. If none of these is unsuccessful, you can try the properties for the grob-interface, which is linked at the bottom of the MetronomeMark page. https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/internals/grob_002dinterface As part of the grob-interface, you will see the the extra-offset property, which you can use to control the location, at the expense of needing to manage collisions yourself. You could also use the \offset command: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/the-offset-command If you had prepared a minimal example, I'd have tried these out myself before replying to you. HTH, Carl
