Re: metronome mark position

[Neil Puttock]

Hi Libero,

2008/7/4 Libero Mureddu <address@hidden>:

> I have two questions:
>
> Is there a way to have the \tempo or a custom \mark \markup that
> behaves correctly according to those three different situations?

I don't think so; unless you use both as required by each individual
situation, you'll have to override the positioning to fix the
alignment.

Following Reinhold's improvements to the \tempo command (i.e.,
allowing text markup), there was a discussion about metronome
alignment (or lack of, when next to a time signature). As I understand
it from the source, metronome marks are only positioned with reference
to note columns; without recoding, there doesn't seem to be any way of
making them acknowledge breakable objects like time and key
signatures.

> In the example, there are two commented lines that should (in my
> understanding), move the metronomemark on the left, but I only get to
> have it down. Is there a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

If you try the same override on a ReheasalMark object, you'll see that
it too ignores this; in the case of some outside staff objects which
are aligned #UP or #DOWN, the side axis seems to be hard-coded (or is
ignored completely: in the case of RehearsalMark, there is no default
setting for 'side-axis), though I couldn't say whether this is a bug
or not.

BTW, if you want the rehearsal mark aligned with the left edge of the
time signature, you'll need to override the TimeSignature object's
'break-align-anchor-alignment property:

\override Staff.TimeSignature #'break-align-anchor-alignment = #LEFT

Regards,
Neil