Re: Jazz chords above slash notation

2021-03-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Robin, > If you need to do a lot of these polychords, you may be better off using two > ChordNames contexts. Oof… Is that really the state of things? Let’s get some syntactic sugar for polychords so nobody has to go through all that (not to mention how it abuses contexts)! Any reason why w

Re: Jazz chords above slash notation

2021-03-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Calvin Ransom wrote: 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. If you need to do a lot of these polychords, you may be better off using two ChordNames contexts. Cheers, Robin \versi

Re: Jazz chords above slash notation

2021-03-25 Thread Tim McNamara
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,

Re: Jazz chords above slash notation

2021-03-25 Thread Kevin Barry
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 04:50:22PM -0700, Calvin Ransom wrote: > 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:

Re: Jazz chords above slash notation

2021-03-24 Thread Calvin Ransom
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

Re: Jazz chords above slash notation

2021-03-23 Thread Aaron Hill
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 N