Re: problem with \tempo

[Mats Bengtsson]

Please always tell what LilyPond version you use, when asking
questions to the mailing list. Otherwise you may receive an
answer that's not relevant for you!

benoit farley wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to Lilypond and to the list.  I have done a lot of research,
> but I'm still left with the following questions about \tempo:
>
> 1) When \tempo 4=108, for example, is written as the first thing on the
> staff, after \clef , \key and \time,
>      it is NOT printed when followed by a multi-measure rest, as in the
> following score:
>
> \score {
>  \context Staff {
>  \set Staff.instrument = "2."
>   #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *)  1 4 'Staff)
>   \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #end-of-line-invisible
>  \key c \major
>  \time 4/4
>  \tempo 4=108 R1 r1 r1 r1 c'4 d' e' f' g' a' b'8 c'' c''4
>  }
>   \layout {
>  }
> }
>
> And of course, it is NOT printed with R1*4 replacing R1 r1 r1 r1 or R1 R1 R1
> R1.
>
> Question:  Is it a bug in the engraving procedure of the tempo mark, and if
> not, what am I doing wrong?

Looks like a known bug that has been solved in recent development
versions. However, if you search the mailing list archives (look
also at the archive for address@hidden), you can find a
workaround that should solve the problem for your version.

By the way, I hope you have realized that you should always use
R instead of r for full measure rests.

> 2) When the tempo mark is printed (let's say that I put 'r1's instead of
> 'R1's), in the very first measure,
>     it is aligned automatically with the left side of the rest.  But
> according to some dictionary of music
>     notation, the tempo mark at the beginning of a piece should be aligned
> with the left side of the
>     time mark, that is the 'C' in my example.
>
>
> Questions: a) Why does Lilypond align it on the first music element instead
> of on the time signature?
>                  b) How do I make it align itself on the left side of the
> time mark? Do I have to leave using \tempo
> and instead use \markup \note ...  ?


There was recently a similar feature request on one of the mailing
lists.

   /Mats