Re: MetronomeMark does not obey staff-padding

[Graham Percival]

I've added this as a feature request:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=342

Cheers,
- Graham

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:20:39PM -0400, Bryan Stanbridge wrote:
> >  
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if this is a bug, but given my tests, I suspect it is 
> > > (so I  copied the bug list). It appears that the MetronomeMark object 
> > > does not pay attention to staff-padding. Does it not have any 
> > > reference points defined for staff-padding perhaps? Here's my simple 
> > > test version.
> > >
> > > \version "2.10.20"
> > >
> > > \score {
> > >   \new Staff {
> > >     \tempo 4=120
> > >     c'4
> > >     \override Score.MetronomeMark #'staff-padding = #5
> > >     \tempo 4=100
> > >     c'4
> > >     \override Score.MetronomeMark #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 5)
> > >     \tempo 4=80
> > >     c'4
> > >   }
> > > }
> > >     
> >
> > This
> >     \override Score.MetronomeMark #'padding = #5
> > works.
> >   
>
> Yes! It seems that the logical(?) explanation to this "bug" is that 
> metronome marks
> (just as bar numbers, e.g.) are handled at the score level, so they are 
> note tied to
> any specific staff. Since LilyPond therefore doesn't know which staff to 
> calculate the
> distance from, the property isn't taken into account.
>
> Still, it would certainly be desirable to be able to specify the 
> smallest distance to the
> top stave and not only the smallest distance to the closest object 
> (which is what the
> padding property gives you), so I would classify this problem as a valid 
> bug report.
> Of course, a possible workaround is to remove the corresponding engraver 
> from the
> Score context and add it to the topmost stave, but that's a very clumsy 
> workaround:
> \score {
>  \new Staff \with{\consists Metronome_mark_engraver } {
>    \tempo 4=120
>     c'4
>     \override Score.MetronomeMark #'staff-padding = #5
>     \tempo 4=100
>     c'4
>     \override Score.MetronomeMark #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 5)
>     \tempo 4=80
>     c'4
>  }
>  \layout{
>    \context{ \Score \remove Metronome_mark_engraver }
>  }
> }
>
>
>   /Mats
>
>
>   /Mats
>
>
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