Hi Thank you for trying - but I've just copied and pasted your code - and it still doesn't do the parentheses. I've attached the PDF I get ..
On Mon, 23 Sept 2024 at 19:00, Knute Snortum <ksnor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 9:04 AM Colin Baguley <co...@baguley.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> When writing a simple song lead sheet i have the chord(name) above the
>> normal melody line.
>> Some guitarists like to use a capo and so I place a transposed
>> chord(name) below the main one.
>> To do this I used a function called "parenthesizeAllchords" which I
>> freely admit I plagarized from somewhere and don't exactly understand how
>> it works - but it did work at one time.
>> Each Capo chord had a bracket around it eg (C) (D7) (Em) etc
>> However, I've not used it for a few years and tried recently and it no
>> longer works ( or I've corrupted the code somewhere along the line)
>> Please could somebody cast an eye over this and see where I am going
>> wrong?
>>
>
> It may be that you got a control code or something in the offending line
> because all I did was retype it.
>
> %============================================================
> guitarchords = \chordmode {
> \override ChordName.font-size = #3
> \override Parentheses.font-size = #2 % I retyped this line
> \override ChordName.style = #'american
> \basicchords }
> capochords = \chordmode {
> \override ChordName.font-size = #-3
> \override Parentheses.font-size = #2
> \override ChordName.style = #'american
> \parenthesizeAllchords
> \basicchords
> }
> %============================================================
>
>
> --
> Knute Snortum
>
>
>
CapoChordsLeadSheet.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
