Re: How to print just a tempo in a LaTeX document?

[Kevin Zembower]

On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 07:53 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> For me,
> 
>   \lilypond[quote]{\new Lyrics \tempo 4 = 90}
> 
> works just fine, but requires at least version 2.17.8, exactly because
> of that score with no music issue.
> 
> You can probably do
> 
> \begin{lilypond}
>   \new Lyrics { \tempo 4 = 90 "" }
> \end{lilypond}
> 

David, thanks for your suggestion. I have lilypond 2.12.3, which doesn't
work with your second suggestion:

--------------------
Parsing...
musicSheet.lytex:35:31: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
  \new Lyrics { \tempo 4 = 90 "
                               " }
musicSheet.lytex:35:2: error: errors found, ignoring music expression
  
  \new Lyrics { \tempo 4 = 90 "" }
error: failed files: "4d/lily-e50f3a59.ly"
----------------------

Interestingly, your first suggestion doesn't cause an error, but still
doesn't print the tempo marks, and still leaves a blank vertical space
in the document.

Version 2.12.3 is the version available with Debian squeeze 6.0.7. I try
not to install individual packages, and prefer to do it through the
package management system, so that I get updates, especially security
updates, automatically. However, your suggestion caused me to notice
that Debian is now up to 7.1, so I may update and see what version of
lilypond that gives me.

Thanks, again, for your suggestion. Take care.

-Kevin
 
> in older versions.  That additionally typesets one quarter note of ""
> lyrics.
>