Re: "Circa" in tempo mark

[David Nalesnik]

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> is it possible to mark a "ca." close to the number of BPM in the tempo mark in
> a graphically adequate way?

You can create a markup for the tempo mark, as shown in one of the
snippets here:
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#metronome-marks

I can't swear to its graphical adequacy, but you could do something like this:

\version "2.17.1"

\relative c' {
  \tempo \markup {
    \concat {
      \smaller \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #"4" #1
      " = "
      \italic ca.
      \hspace #0.25
      "120"
    }
  }
  c1
  c4 c' c,2
}

HTH,
David