Re: Smaller metronome marks

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

"Héctor M. Monacci" <address@hidden> writes:

> #(define note '(rows (music "noteheads-2" ((kern . -0.1) "flags-stem"))))
> #(define eight-note `(rows ,note ((kern . -0.1) (music ((raise . 3.5)
> "flags-u3")))))
> #(define dotted-eight-note `(rows ,eight-note (music "dots-dot")))
> 
> and then using a special superscript like this:
> 
> ^#`(rows ,note " = 116")

> It works fine on my system. Now, even if it is a hack and not a feature,
> don't you find the whole-size note it prints a bit too big? Metronome marks
> use to be smaller than normal notes, maybe the size of grace notes, or
> something between the size of normal notes and the size of grace notes.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to have smaller metronome marks?

Try:

    a1^#`((rows (font-relative-size . -1)) ,dotted-eight-note " = 64")

You may want to look at the documentation for markup text:

http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/TextScript.html

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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