Re: Adding text to chord names or note names (replies to discussion)

2022-12-02 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: kbvw > To: Lilypond-User Mailing List > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 18:10:03 +0000 > Subject: Re: Adding text to chord names or note names (replies to > discussion) > Hello Jean, Elaine, > > >

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names (solution)

2022-12-01 Thread Koen van Walstijn
Hi Jean, Thanks, indeed that's useful to know. (Still learning.) Sorry about that: I'll change it to GPLv3+ and open the issue on Gitlab. Cheers, Koen --- Original Message --- On Thursday, December 1st, 2022 at 8:31 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 01/12/2022 à 19:04, Koen van

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names (solution)

2022-12-01 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 01/12/2022 à 19:04, Koen van Walstijn a écrit : Code can be found here: https://gitlab.com/kbvw/lilypond-tweaks/-/blob/master/harmonic-background.ly By the way: if you want to made a piece of code available that you think someone might want to reuse for LilyPond, you need to put it under

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names (solution)

2022-12-01 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 01/12/2022 à 19:04, Koen van Walstijn a écrit : Hello, (Separately reply follows to some of the specific things that were written.) In case there is interest, what I did now was tweaking the Current_chord_text_engraver from scheme_engravers.scm. It simply takes the first pitch specified

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names (solution)

2022-12-01 Thread Koen van Walstijn
Hello, (Separately reply follows to some of the specific things that were written.) In case there is interest, what I did now was tweaking the Current_chord_text_engraver from scheme_engravers.scm. It simply takes the first pitch specified in a chord as the root, takes the first one with

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names (replies to discussion)

2022-12-01 Thread kbvw
Hello Jean, Elaine, > Amusingly, I found this post from 2001: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-music-discuss/2001-03/msg00327.html > > (The thread continues here: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-music-discuss/2001-04/msg0.html) ​ Ha, that's funny indeed. I'd say I

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-30 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 30/11/2022 à 05:26, Flaming Hakama by Elaine a écrit : I think here is where we dip into the reality that there are many different uses of chord changes. Chord symbols used for analysis are different than when used as an abbreviation for specific notes/voicings, which is different when

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-29 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> Hello, > Le 29/11/2022 à 23:22, Flaming Hakama by Elaine a écrit : > > Lilypond provides ways both to choose among a few of the common > > approaches, and a way to define your own. > > > > It does not provide a way to use different symbols for the same chord > > in the same sequence. There are

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-29 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hello, Le 29/11/2022 à 23:22, Flaming Hakama by Elaine a écrit : Lilypond provides ways both to choose among a few of the common approaches, and a way to define your own. It does not provide a way to use different symbols for the same chord in the same sequence.  There are workarounds for

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-29 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
2022 20:27:15 +0100 > Subject: Re: Adding text to chord names or note names > Le 28/11/2022 à 15:37, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : > > Hi Koen, > > > >> I still think it could be nice to try to write a longer-term solution. > > There has been a lot of work done on

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 28/11/2022 à 20:27, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : The other piece of brainstorming I know about, although I didn’t chase all the discussions in the devel mailing list, is the GSoC patch. This has the same goal of making it easier to coerce LilyPond into formatting chord names the way you want,

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 28/11/2022 à 15:37, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Hi Koen, I still think it could be nice to try to write a longer-term solution. There has been a lot of work done on chord naming over the last decade, mainly as part of a Google Summer of Code project a few years ago, but essentially none

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-28 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Le 28 nov. 2022 à 02:21, kbvw a écrit : > >  > Hi Jean, > > I just finished my reply when I saw your next message. :) > > Sorry, I was starting to forget about the "transposing" bit. > > Well, how about > > \version "2.22.2" > > t = > #(define-music-function (text) (markup?) >#{ >

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-28 Thread kbvw
Hi Kieren, Thanks for your reply; I hope my message didn't come off as rude or unsolicited. (To be sure: I did not mean to suggest removing any functionality that's there. I can easily see many use cases for calculating the actual pitches of a chord internally. I meant more of an alternative

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Koen, > I still think it could be nice to try to write a longer-term solution. There has been a lot of work done on chord naming over the last decade, mainly as part of a Google Summer of Code project a few years ago, but essentially none of it has yet navigated through the patch submission

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-27 Thread kbvw
Hi Jean, I just finished my reply when I saw your next message. :) > Sorry, I was starting to forget about the "transposing" bit. > > Well, how about > > \version "2.22.2" > > t = > #(define-music-function (text) (markup?) > #{ > \once \set chordNameFunction = > #(lambda (sorted-pitches bass

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 28/11/2022 à 01:01, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : Le 28/11/2022 à 00:41, Koen van Walstijn a écrit : Hi Robin, Thanks a lot! I read over that bar lines snippet indeed. Adding the text engraver and tweaking it a bit, I managed to print the markup above the chord symbol, so that definitely

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 28/11/2022 à 00:41, Koen van Walstijn a écrit : Hi Robin, Thanks a lot! I read over that bar lines snippet indeed. Adding the text engraver and tweaking it a bit, I managed to print the markup above the chord symbol, so that definitely helped me along and it will do for the moment.

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-27 Thread Koen van Walstijn
Hi Robin,Thanks a lot! I read over that bar lines snippet indeed. Adding the text engraver and tweaking it a bit, I managed to print the markup above the chord symbol, so that definitely helped me along and it will do for the moment.After reading the documentation and Scheme source a bit more,

Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-26 Thread Robin Bannister
On 26.11.2022 00:06, Koen van Walstijn wrote: Ideally, I would love to be able to do something like this: > > \new ChordNames {    \relative { c1^\markup { \super "6-9" } }} > > The text added to the note would get printed above the staff in a > Staff context but gets ignored by the ChordNames

Adding text to chord names or note names

2022-11-25 Thread Koen van Walstijn
Hello,I got started with LilyPond a week ago to write some arrangements for a small group, in the context of improvised music. (I'm really enjoying the program, it's very intuitive and the output looks great!)I have a question about customizing chord names. From manuals/snippets/etc I learned