Re: Tempo changes
Lukas-Fabian Moser via Discussions on LilyPond development <[email protected]> Mon, 2 Mar 2026 10:24:03 +0100
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Am 02.03.26 um 05:16 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: >> A. Change the default formatter to round to the nearest 1/4 bpm >> instead of 1 bpm. This is easy to describe and to test. Users of >> midi2ly might see fractional parts that they didn't before. 2.24 >> didn't support input of non-integer tempo counts, so old scores >> should not be a problem. Those who want other behavior would still >> have to provide their own formatter. >> >> B. Add context property tempoCountPrecision with default 1. People >> using Stockhausen's scale would set it to 1/4 instead. Others who >> want more precision could set 1/1000 or whatever. Maybe some people >> who don't like odd numbers would want 2. :) > I like option B, perhaps even combined with a `tempoCountRational` > Boolean property to display, say, '45⅔', instead of '45.667'. FWIW, I agree with Werner. Rounding to .25 seems arbitrary to me, while option B sounds LilyPond-y. Lukas