Are you thinking of this as a polychord (one chord above another, rather than a
chord over a bass note as is usually with a “slash” chord)?
Here is a snippet intended to be used as an \include, if I recall correctly, to
denote poly chords in \chordmode I haven’t had occasion to use it in years, I
didn’t write it, and have not tested it against more recent versions of
Lilypond since I seem to never need to use polychords. No doubt something more
elegant could be constructed now, but hopefully there is seething helpful in
here.
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\version "2.18.0"
#(define-markup-command (transposed-chord-root-name layout props a b) (number?
number?)
#:properties ((cause #f))
"Print the root of the chord transposed."
(interpret-markup layout props
(markup (note-name->markup
(ly:pitch-transpose (ly:event-property cause 'pitch)
(ly:make-pitch 0 a b))
#f))))
#(define-markup-command (chord-root-name layout props) ()
#:properties ((cause #f))
"Print the root of the chord."
(interpret-markup layout props
(markup (note-name->markup (ly:event-property cause 'pitch) #f)
)))
#(define-public (silent-chord-root-namer pitch lowercase?)
(markup "")
)
%{
#(define-markup-command (polychord-column layout props args)
(markup-list?)
;#:properties ((direction)
;(baseline-skip))
(let* ((args-length-ls (sort (map (lambda (x)
(interval-length
(ly:stencil-extent
(interpret-markup layout props x)
X)))
args)
>))
; baseline-skip is hard-coded!
; if you change this don't forget to change 0.65
; in: #:translate (cons 0 (* 0.65 baseline-skip))
(baseline-skip 1.4)
(ln-mrkp (markup #:translate (cons 0 (* 0.65 baseline-skip))
#:draw-line (cons (car args-length-ls) 0)))
(new-args (list (car args) ln-mrkp (cadr args))))
; direction is hard-coded!
(stack-lines 1 ;(if (number? direction) direction -1)
0.0
baseline-skip
(interpret-markup-list layout props new-args))))
%}
#(define (insert-elt l1 l2 elt)
"Inserts a new element between every element of list l1
and outputs this as new list l2.
While starting, l2 is supposed to be '() "
(set! l2 (reverse (append (list elt (car l1)) l2)))
(if (= 1 (length (cdr l1)))
(append l2 (last-pair l1))
(insert-elt (cdr l1) (reverse l2) elt)))
#(define-markup-command (dir-column-line layout props direction args)
(number? markup-list?)
(let* ((args-length-ls (sort (map (lambda (x)
(interval-length
(ly:stencil-extent
(interpret-markup layout props x)
X)))
args)
>))
; baseline-skip is hard-coded!
(baseline-skip 0.4)
(ln-mrkp (markup #:draw-line (cons (car args-length-ls) 0)
#:vcenter
#:vspace 0.2))
(new-args (insert-elt args '() ln-mrkp)))
(stack-lines (if (number? direction) direction -1)
0.0
baseline-skip
(interpret-markup-list layout props new-args))))
polychordExceptionMusic = {
<c e g des' f' aes'>1-\markup { \dir-column-line #1
{ \chord-root-name \transposed-chord-root-name #1 #-1/2
} }
<c e g d' fis' a'>1-\markup { \dir-column-line #1
{ \chord-root-name \transposed-chord-root-name #1 #0 } }
}
%#(top-repl)
polychordExceptions = #( append
( sequential-music-to-chord-exceptions polychordExceptionMusic #t)
ignatzekExceptions)
cmJazz = {
\set chordNameExceptions = #ignatzekExceptions
\set chordRootNamer = #note-name->markup
}
cmPoly = {
\set chordNameExceptions = #polychordExceptions
\set chordRootNamer = #silent-chord-root-namer
}
theMusic = \chords {
\cmPoly
c1:5.9-.11.13-
c1:5.9.11+.13
des1:5.9.11+.13
fis1:5.9.11+.13
\cmJazz
c1:5.9-.11.13-
}
\layout {
ragged-right = ##t
}
\score {
\new StaffGroup <<
<<
\context ChordNames \theMusic
\new Staff = "staff" \relative c' { c1 d e f g }
>>
<<
\context ChordNames \theMusic
\new Staff = "staff" \relative c' { c1 d e f g }
>>
>>
}
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> On Mar 24, 2021, at 6:50 PM, Calvin Ransom <calvinjran...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you Aaron,
> I had to sleep on it and when I woke up it clicked instantly.
> I was able to get the chords to work but I ran across a chord that I am not
> able to write the following chord, If anyone has any ideas on how I can write
> this I would greatly appreciate it.
> This is what my attempt got me so far:
> %%%snippet begins%%%
> \version "2.22.0"
> \score{
> \relative{
> b4^\markup{
> \center-column{
> \line{
> \larger{
> \larger \override #'(offset . 5)\override #'(thickness . 1)
> \underline {
> "G"
> }
> }
> \line
> "C"
> }
> }
> }
> }
> }
> }
> %%%snippet ends%%%
> <image.png>
> Cheers,
> Calvin Ransom
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 9:59 PM Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com
> <mailto:lilyp...@hillvisions.com>> wrote:
> On 2021-03-23 9:26 pm, Calvin Ransom wrote:
> > I am trying to write something like the image below. I was able to
> > typeset the more normal chords ok but I don’t know how to place parts
> > of them in parentheses or how to type the maj9
>
> Review chordNameExceptions and the associated snippet [1] in the
> Notation reference.
>
> [1]:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/displaying-chords#index-chordNameExceptions-2
>
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/displaying-chords#index-chordNameExceptions-2>
>
>
> -- Aaron Hill
