On Tue, 2008-29-01 at 14:57 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Iain, > > > I'm curious to hear what the status is of lilypond for making combo > > or fake cheats. > > My last two major projects were both musicals, and they both required > "jazz charts" (i.e., with chord names). > I had no problem getting Lilypond to do what I needed/wanted. > > If you have specific questions, post them (+ code).
Thanks Kieren! Right now I am trying to change some chord symbols. It would be nice I think in the long run to make a couple of new sets, as neither the default nor the alternate match "standard" american fake books. ( Yeah, I know there is no standard. But these are still pretty unusual ). My current issue is with the dominant chord having the 7 is superscript, this is normally written in (most) american books with a large 7 to distinguish that it is chord quality and not extension number. I tried copying in the example from chord-name-exceptions but it doesn't seem to be doing anything so I guess I don't know what I'm doing here. If anyone can tell me or post examples that would be great. I'm also specifically interested in getting a large size 0 with slash for half-diminished ( m7b5) and a - for minor instead of m. here is my code that does _not_ change any symbols! \version "2.10.10" % Jazz Chart template \header { title = "Song Title" } \paper { #(define dump-extents #t) top-margin = 0\cm bottom-margin = 0\cm indent = 0\mm between-system-padding = 10\mm } % attempt to override the dom 7 chord chExceptionMusic = { <c e g bes>1-\markup { \super "7" "wahh" } } % add to existing exceptions. chExceptions = #(append (sequential-music-to-chord-exceptions chExceptionMusic #t) ignatzekExceptions) melody = \relative c' { \clef treble \key c \major \time 4/4 f4 e8[ c] d4 g | a2 ~ a2 | f4 e8[ c] d4 g | a2 ~ a2 | \break } harmonies = \chordmode { c2:m f2:min7 c1:7 c2:m f2:min7 d1: \break } \score { << \new ChordNames { \set chordChanges = ##t \harmonies } \new Staff \melody >> } _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user