Re: tempo markings

[Paul Scott]

Graham Percival wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:30:06 -0700
> Paul Scott <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > For a simple piece with score and parts how do I cause the tempo marking 
> > to appear only at once above the top part in the score and and once at 
> > the beginning of each part.  This will be a fairly standard marking like:
> >    
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> AFAIK, there is no easy good way of doing this.  I've been thinking about
> requesting this feature for a while.
Actually your last two solutions sound like they have possibilities. 
Possibly something from this could be added to the docs when you have 
time.  When I get clearer on this I'll post my solution.  Of course this 
also needs to work anywhere else in the score.

> > where I do know how to create '<note> = 100' as per the manual.
> >    
> Text markup, IIRC.  It's in one of the "text" sections in the reference manual.
As I said I found that one:

"One practical application of complicated markup is to fake a metronome 
marking:"

even though I intend to dig further into how those defines work.

> > So far I put it in the first part and it, of course, appeared on the 
> > score and on the first part and of course not on the other parts.
> >    
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> Three options:
> - Place a mark (see the reference manual) in every single part of your piece.
> Print parts.  Then go back and comment out the marks in all parts apart from
> the first one, then print a score.
That sounds very awkward for a full orchestral score.  (Not for me in 
this case but for others).

> - use something like \header {meter="Allegro (quarter = 120)"
That has possibilities and might solve another problem.  I'm going to 
post a question or two about vertical spacing when I get a chance.  My 
tempo marking is too close to the notes right now.

> - define a "tempopart" part which looks like this:
> tempopart = \notes { s1^#(note (something "= 120) see-refman) }
> In your parts, include both the actual part and tempopart.
> \context Staff < \violinpart \tempopart>
> In the full score, only include the \tempopart in the first staff.
That sounds more straight forward.  I'll work on that.  

> I've done all three of them, and they all have disadvantages.
What are the disadvantages of the last one.

Thanks very much,

Paul