Re: problem with \tempo

[Graham Percival]

On 14-May-05, at 1:03 PM, benoit farley wrote:

> 1) When \tempo 4=108, for example, is written as the first thing on the
> staff, after \clef , \key and \time,
>      it is NOT printed when followed by a multi-measure rest, as in the
> following score:
>
> \score {
>  \context Staff {
>  \set Staff.instrument = "2."
>   #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *)  1 4 'Staff)
>   \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #end-of-line-invisible
>  \key c \major
>  \time 4/4
>  \tempo 4=108 R1 r1 r1 r1 c'4 d' e' f' g' a' b'8 c'' c''4
>  }
>   \layout {
>  }
> }

What version are you using?  I tried it with 2.5.23+ (cvs) and the
metronome mark printed correctly.

> 2) When the tempo mark is printed (let's say that I put 'r1's instead 
> of
> 'R1's), in the very first measure,
>     it is aligned automatically with the left side of the rest.  But
> according to some dictionary of music
>     notation, the tempo mark at the beginning of a piece should be 
> aligned
> with the left side of the
>     time mark, that is the 'C' in my example.

Interesting.  I don't think that LilyPond does this automatically; you 
can
certainly move the tempo mark manually (see the "Changing Defaults"
chapter of the manual, particularly the examples involving 
#'extra-offset ).

Cheers,
- Graham