Most classical scores do not specify the tempo in beats per minute, but as "Adagio", "Andante" etc. or even as a general description like "Wie Kyrie" (Like the Kyrie) or "Etwas schneller" (a little faster). Now, I'd like to use a proper MetronomeMark grop for these tempo indications, too, since then one can easily change the settings / alignment / formatting etc. of all tempo marks in a score.
However, for most of these text-only tempo marks, there is no b/min available (for Andante etc. there are approximate b/min values available, but indications like "a little faster" cannot be expressed in b/min), so I can't change the tempoUnitCount or Score.tempoUnitDuration properties to sensible values, which trigger the creation of a MetronomeMark. Only setting Score.metronomeMarkFormatter to a function that prints the text does not work, as the engraver does not check for changes in this property... So, is there any way to implement a \tempoMark #"Textual tempo indication" function, which generates a MetronomeMark? Or would one have to extend the Metronome_mark_engraver to implement this? Of course, using a text markup (as given in the example of section "7.1.2 Simple substitution functions" of the new NR) works, but does not apply any global MetronomeMark settings (i.e. alignments etc.), so I see text markups only as a workaround but not as the solution. Cheers, Reinhold -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
