On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 02:30:53PM +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
I think I can guess why you didn't get the result you wanted. You
should enter the chord symbols by using a separate staff for them:
[....]
and friends, which is an older interface attaching text to the melody
notes. With that you would have to start tinkering with the LilyPond
syntax...
Yes you're exactly right, it seemed easier, but I'll give the chord staff a try.
One thing I may have to change anyway, given the comment by Joe in this thread
On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
Technically you only need the root note to get it to appear as a chord, but I tend to fill in the major/minor triad so that it
sounds better on playback.
Then add the 7th note above the fifth. major 7ths, diminished thirds and augmented fifths come out with, presumably, official
symbls. It would be nice to get them displayed as maj7, dim, aug, and sus4 etc, but I haven't figured out how.
Is getting the display name more like what's used in a jazz lead sheet.
I can't -- I see the hand pointer, but dragging doesn't work.
This will be the problem that you are using the evince-view package
instead of the atril-view package, point and click stopped working in
the default evolution packages some years ago.
Thanks for the clue! I can see about changing that in my distro. Would there be any cons to changing to atril-view from your
perspective?
thanks again, George
