Re: Dash instead of 'm' for minor chords

2006-07-04 Thread Shamus 
Thibaut Chevalier wrote:

 However, i had to write this complicated markup to obtain a correct 7 /
 b5
 for semi-diminished chords (instead of the dashed circle).
 
 c ees ges bes-\markup { - \super {7/ \hspace #0.2 \teeny {\raise
 #0.3 \flat} 5} }% C dashed circle - C-7/5b
 
 It seems that the \flat inside the \super does not behave like the rest of
 the text, and is bigger and to low than the usual superscript text, but I
 could not figure why, reading the Overview of Markup commands. Has anyone a
 clue ? (
 http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Overview-of-text-markup-commands.html#Overview-of-text-markup-commands
 
 ).


This has always been one of my pet peeves with the chord handling on
lilypond (why can't those sharps and flats be the right size and
correctly placed by default?!? /me head explodes). Anyway, I've been
using (for example)

c e ges bes-\markup { 7 \tiny \raise #1.0 { \flat } 5 }
c e gis bes-\markup { 7 \teeny \raise #1.0 { \sharp } 5 }

with a condensed font and it looks great--the sharp and flat symbols are
proportional to each other and correctly placed.

As far as I know, the \super command does nothing to the size of the
character it's raising (i.e., it's a shortcut method of doing \raise) so
I'm not sure what the issue is there (though I could be wrong about that).

-- Shamus


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Re: Dash instead of 'm' for minor chords

2006-07-03 Thread Paul Scott 

Thibaut Chevalier wrote:

Thanks, it works great !
I personnally prefer the minus sign which is a little shorter.

However, i had to write this complicated markup to obtain a correct 7 
/ b5 for semi-diminished chords (instead of the dashed circle).


c ees ges bes-\markup { - \super {7/ \hspace #0.2 \teeny 
{\raise #0.3 \flat} 5} }% C dashed circle - C-7/5b


It seems that the \flat inside the \super does not behave like the 
rest of the text, and is bigger and to low than the usual superscript 
text, but I could not figure why, reading the Overview of Markup 
commands. Has anyone a clue ? 
(http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Overview-of-text-markup-commands.html#Overview-of-text-markup-commands 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Overview-of-text-markup-commands.html#Overview-of-text-markup-commands).



I believe accidentals are always too large when compared to text.

Paul Scott



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Dash instead of 'm' for minor chords

2006-06-29 Thread Thibaut Chevalier 
Hi there,Is there a way to get a dash (-) instead of m for minor chords in chordmode notation ?I found there is a special property to change the maj7 triangle to whatever we want, but is there nothing for the 'm' ?
The dash is widely used, in jazz at least, that's too bad if it it not possible to obtain it !Thanks for any bright solutionThibaut Chevalier.
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Re: Dash instead of 'm' for minor chords

2006-06-29 Thread Shamus 
Hi!

 Is there a way to get a dash (-) instead of m for minor chords in chordmode
 notation ?
 
 Thanks for any bright solution

I don't know if it's bright or not, but short of going into the
appropriate .scm file and changing the m there to a -, you would
have go do the chordNameExceptions route:

jazzyChordsMusic =
{
  c ees g-\markup { - } % Cm - C-
  c ees g bes-\markup { -7 }% Cm7 - C-7
  c ees g bes d'-\markup { -9 } % Cm9 - C-9
  % Add more as needed
}

jazzyChordsAdd = #(append
  (sequential-music-to-chord-exceptions jazzyChordsMusic #t)
  ignatzekExceptions)

jazzyChords =
{
  \set chordNameExceptions = #jazzyChordsAdd
}

Then, in your chordNames, at the top you would put \jazzyChords in like so:

Chords = \chordmode
{
  \jazzyChords

  c1:m
  c:m7
  c:m9
}

There's probably a better way to do it with partial exceptions, but I
can't seem to find a quick 'n' dirty example.

-- Shamus


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Re: Dash instead of 'm' for minor chords

2006-06-29 Thread Vicente Solsona 
I use the same system as Shamus, but I use the dash simbol instad the  
minus symbol, because I find it to be a bit more polite. So I have then:


jazzyChordsMusic =
{
  c ees g1-\markup {#(ly:export (ly:wide-char-utf-8 #x2013))} % Cm - C-
  % and so on...
}

I have jazzyChordsMusic and jazzyChordsAdd in a separate jazzchords.ly  
file, so everytime I want my custom chord names (well, always :) ), I just  
include that file.


Greetings,

Vincent


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