Re: Tempo mark doesn't forget explicitly given bpm, v. 2.11.60

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/10/1 Thies Albrecht <address@hidden>:

> Once a tempo indication dur = count is explicitly set, it will be displayed 
> even though you just indicate e.g. \tempo "Allegro". A simple workaround 
> would be to use \once \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t everytime you just want 
> the textual tempo marking.

Yes!! For a few weeks I wanted to submit exactly the same feature
request, but you made it first (and much better than I would have).

Reinhold, is the current behavior intended? Could Thies' proposal be
implemented (possibly by adding a rememberTempoNote property or
whatever)? Would it be wise to make it behave this way by default?

The ultimate enhancement would be that when you type \tempo "Andante"
LilyPond would recognize it and attribute a default Andante tempo to
the MIDI rendering... but maybe that's science-fiction.

Cheers,
Valentin