oh, I forgot to mention: there is an example that you can get with the command
Command: Open Example Start a new score from a built-in example Location: Main Menu ▶ File ▶ Open Internal Name: OpenExample The file you want is LeadSheet.denemo Richard On Wed, 2024-11-06 at 17:18 +0000, Richard Shann wrote: > On Wed, 2024-11-06 at 16:30 +0000, wak...@tilde.team wrote: > > 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 > > There is a way to customise the way chords are designated - id I > recall correctly it involves having a dummy movement which comprises > the chords you want to use with the chord symbol text you want > attached > - Denemo then emits the needed LilyPond syntax to make those chords > be > typeset as those symbols. > I can dig around to find out about this if you need to this - I > recall > setting it up for one of my brothers that was doing jazz at the time, > I > think it may be undocumented in consequence as the to-ing and fro-ing > would have gone on off list :( > > > > > > 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. > > If you are using a version of Denemo provided by a distro it will > likely be rather out-of-date. The (nightly) builds provided by > Andreas > http://www.denemo.org/~aschneider/ > or the other possibilities listed on > https://denemo.org/downloads-page/ should be better. > > > Would there be any cons to changing to atril-view from your > > perspective? > > No, atril-view works perfectly for Denemo. > > Richard > >
