Re: MetronomeMark doesn't respond to #'font-series override

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Montag, 17. November 2008 schrieb Mark Polesky:
> Is this a bug?

Well, yes and no. The bold font is hardcoded inside the metronome-markup 
function in scm/translation-functions.scm.
The reason is that the full metronome marks are constructed as:

"Tempowords (note=beat)"

where in old printed scores "Tempowords" is printed in bold, 
while "(note=beat)" is printed in normal font in smaller size...

So, there is not one bold/non-bold setting, but actually two... The bold for 
the words is hardcoded. The #'font-series will apply to "(note=beat)", 
though...

I don't see any better solution...

I tried removing the hardcoded bold and setting the whole metronome mark to 
bold font in the define-grobs.scm, but the result is not really convincing 
(the "(note=beat)" is much too heavy now...). See the attached pdf.

Cheers,
Reinhold

> %% MetronomeMark doesn't respond to #'font-series override
>
> \version "2.11.63-1"
>
> \score {
>   \new Staff \relative {
>     \tempo "Allegro"
>     g' a b c
>   }
>   \layout {
>     \context {
>       \Score
>
>       %% these 3 lines affect tempo mark as expected:
>       \override MetronomeMark #'font-family = #'sans
>       \override MetronomeMark #'font-size = #2
>       \override MetronomeMark #'font-shape = #'italic
>
>       %% but tempo remains bold despite adding this line:
>       \override MetronomeMark #'font-series = #'medium
>     }
>   }
> }



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