Re: sectional titles above tempo markings?

[Josiah Boothby]

I get an error with \vspace:

error: unknown escaped string: `\vspace'

Are we both using 2.12?

Thanks,

Josiah

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Josiah,
>
>> Using 2.12.2, I'm wondering if I can include some sort of sectional
>> titling information above a tempo marking, ideally also with a markup
>> below the tempo indication, something like:
>>
>> Henry in the Store
>> Superfast (4=198)
>> (muted)
>> [staff with music]
>
> I happen to be doing *precisely* that kind of thing in my current quartet 
> commission -- here's one example:
>
>  \tempo 4 = 69 \tempo \markup \dir-column
>  {
>    \concat { "Tenderly, with some rubato (" \fontsize #-2 \general-align #Y 
> #DOWN \note #"4" #1 " = ca. 66-72)" }
>    "VARIATION I"
>    \vspace #0
>    \combine \fontsize #2 "PART ONE" \lower #0.7 \override #'(thickness . 1.5) 
> \draw-line #'(16 . 0)
>  }
>
> Notes:
>    1. \vspace is the standard (Nicholas's?) function for inserting vertical 
> space;
>    2. the last element has a manually-built underline (because we don't 
> currently have control over all the properties of Lilypond's \underline); and,
>    3. there are *two* \tempo commands (one to set the actual tempo, one to 
> generate the markup).
>
> Hope this helps!
> Kieren.
>