On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 21:12, Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Am So., 7. Okt. 2018 um 19:53 Uhr schrieb Peter Crighton
> <petecrigh...@gmail.com>:
>
> > How would I go about either shifting the parentheses vertically or
> making them smaller? They probably make sense how they are now with regard
> to sharps/flats and possible lowercase letters, but they still look off,
> especially with the C(/G) example. Although Iā€™m just realising ā€“ looking at
> the characters I just typed in ā€“ that such alignment of parentheses is
> probably typographically common. I would have expected them to be exactly
> as tall as all other characters in the example.
>
> A ChordName is not a simple line of characters, but a tailored markup,
> containing strings and musicglyphs, additional they are used with
> different fontsize and probably raised etc.
> Look at the far simpler
> \markup { "(/" \sharp ")" }
> to get an impression ...
>
> Nevertheless, you can adjust fontsize and apply \raise (and what ever you
> like).
> To make it more easy I switched (partly) to ly-syntax for the
> chordNoteNamer:
>
> \new ChordNames
>   \chordmode {
>     \set slashChordSeparator = ""
>     \set chordNoteNamer =
>       #(lambda (pitch lowercase?)
>         #{
>           \markup {
>             \fontsize #-1.5 \raise #0.21 "("
>             "/"
>             #(note-name->markup pitch lowercase?)
>             \fontsize #-1.5 \raise #0.21 ")"
>           }
>         #})
>
>     cis:5.9.13/fis
>     c/g
>   }
>
> Cheers,
>   Harm


Thanks a lot! Scheme still always throws me off ā€¦

--
Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany
http://www.petercrighton.de
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