Re: giving MetronomeMarks the space they need

[Keith OHara]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:12:40 -0800, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Mike's hack definitely solves the problem nicely — see other thread.

The other thing people do is make a separate context, analogous to Dynamics, usually called 
MarkLine.  This thread has a reasonably modern version 
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-02/msg00203.html>  (except for a 
"VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent" that convert-ly will probably remove for you).

As written it ignores time-signatures but you could probably figure out how to 
have it acknowledge time signatures and align the first tempo properly over the 
time signature.  The other thing MetronomeMark does is move slightly left over 
a full-measure rest, which the books say to do but some people don't like.  If 
these details can be added, then maybe we should include MarkLine in LilyPond.