On Mon, 2024-11-04 at 02:51 +0000, wak...@tilde.team wrote: > hello all, > > First time posting to the list, I've used Denemo for a couple of > scores now and I really enjoy it. I'm hoping someone can > advise me on how to add parenthesis around chord names above the > staff, this is a common mark at the end of jazz lead sheets. > For example, I want to typeset (G-7 C-7 F7) parens included
One way to do this would be to use the fact that you can customise chord symbols - so you could make a set of chord symbols that are the usual chord symbol but with an open parenthesis before it and another set that did things like C-7) ... I'll remind myself how you customise chord symbols in Denemo and come back to you on this. However, > above the staff over three measures. > I've searched Denemo and Lilypond docs that's a rather kludgy way to go, asking on lilypond-u...@gnu.org will undoubtedly give you some neat syntax to use, and armed with that you could come back to this list if it wasn't obvious how to insert said syntax into a Denemo score. > [...] > I tried inserting a text mark above the staff, and that prints the > paren in the print view, but I can't drag the paren to > position it properly (even if I click on typeset in the print view -- > maybe I'm doing it wrong). The little hand cursor shows > up, but nothing happens when I click on the paren. Can you drag *any* text marks? Richard > > Thanks for any help, George >
