Re: How to insert a simple "rit."?

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-09-28 1:13 pm, David Kastrup wrote:
> David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello all
> >
> > I certainly remember having this same question or confusion. The fact
> > that there is a specific \cresc led me to believe that there ought to
> > be a specific \rit as well. May I suggest that a new Subsection 1.3.4
> > "Other expressive marks" be added to the Notation manual, simply
> > explaining that "rit." and friends don't need individual commands, and
> > should be dealt with as text markup, with a link to Section 1.8?
> >
> > "Rit." *IS* an "expressive mark" just as much as "cresc." is, after
> > all, and the fact that it isn't mentioned in Section 1.3 tends to make
> > it look as if Lilypond just isn't capable of "rit." - which of course
> > seems strange. A person who's at the stage of trying to find out how
> > to put a "rit." into their score is unlikely to know that they need to
> > look in Section 1.8.
>
> Uh, \tempo "rit." ?

One minor issue is that MetronomeMarks normally belong to the Score and 
appear above all staves in a system.  Much of the keyboard music I have 
prefer placing things like "rit." and "rall." between the hands.  As 
such, I just use TextScripts to implement them.  Only in a few cases 
have I bothered to instantiate a Dynamics context to vertically align 
performance instructions.

I wonder if there is value in having something like \textTempo or 
\dynamicTempo that work in a similar fashion to \tempo but produce 
TextScripts and DynamicTexts, respectively.


-- Aaron Hill