chord names

I would like to include chord names in only part of a song. The example I attached does that. The problem is that the use of spaces in the ChordNames section interferes with the \CompressMMRests directive in the "notes" section. Is there another way to include chordnames in a porti

Chord names

Good morning. How do you create a chord name that's a minor sus? Example: \version "2.16.2" chordNames = \chordmode { \global e4.:m e:m/d a:m a:m d d:7 g2. I want the first a:m chord to be an a-minor sus. How do I make that happen? "a:m:sus" and "a:msus" and "a:m/sus" don't work. Will this

Chord names

Greetings - I'm running LY 2.19.32 under Win 7. I'm trying to add chord names to fiddle tunes, and not having much luck. I used to add the chord names as markups on individual notes, but I was hoping chordNames would place the names all at one height, above the staff. Here's what

chord names

I'm trying to figure out how to make chord modifiers like "sus4" not be superscript. It seems like there should be a simple way to do that, but I don't see it in the "Customizing Chord Names" <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-chords

Chord Names

Hi All! I just managed to get my son the genius to install 2.7.20 on my FreeBSD 5.3 system. It's great! Now ... I'm entering a piece with melody, lyrics, and chordnames which calls for "FMaj7", and any combination of that seems to make the program crash. What's the correct syntax to get th

Chord Names

Hi! I'm writing out a lead sheet in the key of B (All you keyboardists out there, don't choke! It's even worse for many guitarists.) I would like to produce a sheet for the guitarists with the chords in A, and a notation to use "capo 2", but leave the original melody in B. The keyboard copy

chord names

Hi, I've just started using Lilypond (1.6.6) and I can't get chord names to work. I found some messages in the archives about this, so it seems it is really a problem with Lilypond rather than me. I wonder if there is a solution for this already. I've tried to upgrade to more

chord names

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, > > I've just started using Lilypond (1.6.6) and I can't get chord names to > work. I found some messages in the archives about this, so it seems it > is really a problem with Lilypond rather than me. I wonder if there is > a sol

chord names

Hi, How should I set the ChordNames.ChordName property to get chords used here in Hungary. I would like to see something like this: d:m - "d" instead "Dm" a:m - "a" instead "Am" fis - "Fis" instead "F#" h- "H" instead "B" Thanks in advance, Regards, Zsolt Szunyoghy ___

Intervalic Chord Names

Hello. I need some help figuring out how to change chord names (C, F, G) into intervals such as (I, IV, V). The short example below displays a timing diagram for a melodic line, but I would also like to display the chords C7, F7 as generic intervals I7 IV7. Manually setting the text would okay

Intervalic Chord Names

Hello. (Trying this again in plain text. Sorry for duplication but my previous try didn't seem to go through.) I need some help figuring out how to change chord names (C, F, G) into intervals such as (I, IV, V). The short example below displays a timing diagram for a melodic line, but I

Re: chord names

Hello, instead of doing \repeat unfold 8 {s1} do s1*8 or \scaleDurations 8 s1 Cheers, Valentin Am Freitag, 13. Oktober 2023, 21:43:53 CEST schrieb clyde: > I would like to include chord names in only part of a song. The example > I attached does that. The problem is that the use of spa

Re: Chord names

"jx...@juno.com" writes: > Good morning. How do you create a chord name that's a minor sus? > > Example: > \version "2.16.2" > chordNames = \chordmode { > \global > e4.:m e:m/d a:m a:m d d:7 g2. > > I want the first a:m chord to be an a-minor sus. What does that mean? A suspended chord is o

Re: Chord names

2015-11-26 13:02 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : > "jx...@juno.com" writes: > >> Good morning. How do you create a chord name that's a minor sus? >> >> Example: >> \version "2.16.2" >> chordNames = \chordmode { >> \global >> e4.:m e:m/d a:m a:m d d:7 g2. >> >> I want the first a:m chord to be an a-m

Re: Chord names

Hi David (et al.) >> I want the first a:m chord to be an a-minor sus. > What does that mean? A suspended chord is one where the third is > replaced by either the second or the fourth, so there is no difference > between major and minor in a suspended chord. Only if you choose to ignore the benef

Re: Chord names

2015-11-26 13:32 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley : > 2015-11-26 13:02 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : >> "jx...@juno.com" writes: >>> Example: >>> \version "2.16.2" Really? Then the proposed override will not work. Instead try: \once \override ChordNames.ChordName #'before-line-breaking = #(lambda (gr

Re: Chord names

Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David (et al.) > >>> I want the first a:m chord to be an a-minor sus. >> What does that mean? A suspended chord is one where the third is >> replaced by either the second or the fourth, so there is no difference >> between major and minor in a suspended chord. > > O

Re: Chord names

> But LilyPond's chord-naming names actually played chord notes, not > anticipated chords. I agree - it's not a good idea to confuse the chord with the underlying scale. If you want a minor chord sounding, then use one; you can *add* a 4th (or better 11th) to that. Best, Robert > > -- >

Re: Chord names

Hi all, >> LilyPond's chord-naming names actually played chord notes, >> not anticipated chords. I, for one, am grateful there are overrides, so I can easily label chords with a chord name that my musicians prefer to see — in this case, a chord name which actually helps them perform better — as

Re: Chord names

> On Nov 26, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > Hi all, > >>> LilyPond's chord-naming names actually played chord notes, >>> not anticipated chords. > > I, for one, am grateful there are overrides, so I can easily label chords > with a chord name that my musicians prefer to see

Re: Chord names

Hi Tim, > Sus chords do not resolve to a diatonic major or minor in quartal harmony for > example, so for Lilypond to assume there is a resolution to a major or minor > triad would be unwise. Absolutely. But to imply that Am(sus) or Am(sus4) has no meaning ignores the reality of composition,

Re: Chord names

> On Nov 26, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > Hi Tim, > >> Sus chords do not resolve to a diatonic major or minor in quartal harmony >> for example, so for Lilypond to assume there is a resolution to a major or >> minor triad would be unwise. > > Absolutely. > > But to imply

Re: Chord names

Hi Tim, On Nov 27, 2015, at 1:15 AM, tim...@bitstream.net wrote: > Given an Am(sus) chord on a chart I would wonder whether the composer wants a > suspended chord (A D E) or a triad with a 4th- or much more likely 11th- > added (A C E D). In most of the scores I read (and write), that’s A(add4)

Re: Chord names

> On Nov 27, 2015, at 4:48 AM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > On Nov 27, 2015, at 1:15 AM, tim...@bitstream.net wrote: >> Given an Am(sus) chord on a chart I would wonder whether the composer wants >> a suspended chord (A D E) or a triad with a 4th- or much more likely 11th- >> ad

Modify chord names

Hi everyone, I've been using Lilypond for a couple of weeks now, and I have to say that I absolutely love it! And the magnitude of knowledge and helpfulness in this mailinglist is just amazing. I have a - possibly rather trivial - problem with chord names. If I enter e.g. "

chord names position

I have looked through the manual using various search terms but have not found an example as yet. I have this example with chord names over the treble clef. I would like to move the chord names further away from the staff as a group if possible. \version "2.15.0" #(set-default-

Multiple chord names?

Hello folks, MusicXML has the notion of multiple chord names, i.e.: 480 0 major 4 4

Re: Chord names

Hi Ralph, make the chordnames and the notes appear at the same time: % - % Chord names \version "2.19.32" \include "english.ly" notes = \relative { \clef treble \key g \major \time 4/4 g'4 g a g | } chordNam

Re: Chord names

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Klaus Blum wrote: > Hi Ralph, > > make the chordnames and the notes appear at the same time: > > % - > > > \score { > << > \new ChordNames \chordNames > \new Staff \notes > >> > > \layout { > indent = #0 >

Chord names font

Greetings - I'm getting closer. I'm running LY 2.19.33 under Win 7. How can I change the size of the chord names, and/or change them to bold. I've tried a few possibilities, and looked in the Notation Reference, the Internals Reference, and the Snippets Repository, with no luck

Re: chord names

Hi Ben, Benjamin Bloomfield wrote > I'm trying to figure out how to make chord modifiers like "sus4" not be > superscript. for your first issue you can modify what you've found in "Customizing chord names": %

Re: chord names

(make-musicglyph-markup (assoc-get alt standard-alteration-glyph-name-alist "" )) ))) ) ) ) internationalChords = { \set Staff.chordRootNamer = #note-name->international-markup

Re: chord names

(make-tiny-markup (make-raise-markup raise; > make-tiny-markup instead of make-smaller-markup > (make-musicglyph-markup > (assoc-get alt > standard-alteration-glyph-name-alist "" >

Re: chord names

Hi Klaus, Am 11.02.2017 um 01:04 schrieb Klaus Blum: > Maybe there's an easier way, but here's a first solution. It's a quick > modification of > http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=824.0 This looks so much nicer than the default chords. Is it correct that this function only works for "s

Re: chord names

quot; )) ))) ) ) ) internationalChords = { \set Staff.chordRootNamer = #note-name->international-markup % \unset Staff.chordNoteNamer } \new ChordNames \chordmode { as a ais bes b bis bes:m bis:m bes:9 bis:9 as/bes \internationalChords as a ais bes b bis bes:m bis:m bes:9 bis:

Re: chord names

Hi Klaus, > that's strange... I've tested it with 2.19.37 and it worked - see below. > (In my last post, comments in the code were messed up by unwanted line > breaks, I hope this time it works.) Thank you. This time it works for me with 2.19.49. I'll check again, but probably I did some mistake

Re: chord names

Hi Klaus, this worked now beautifully and I tweaked it a bit to my liking. One more question: Can I also make the accidentals in the superscript smaller or shift them? Like in \chords { c:13- } Best, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@

Re: chord names

Klaus -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/chord-names-tp199985p200068.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: chord names

ion) (= alteration FLAT) 0.094725 - Cheers again, Klaus -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/chord-names-tp199985p200070.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user

Parenthesizing chord names

A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a song that is not played the last time through. For example in "Easy Living" the turnaround over the last two bars of the second ending is (using

Chord Names Tweak

Hello all, Does anyone have suggestions for tweaking the position of accidental in chord names. For example, the flat sign in in the chord name Ab? I find in the default Lilypond setting the flat symbol is too big and too low on the base line. Thanks, Jonathan

minor chord names

Hello pond comrades, some time ago I asked about displaying minor chord names as lowercase letters without the "m" modifier, as it is common (at least) in German folk songbooks. I.e. \context ChordNames { \germanChords % or whatever \chordmode { a:m } } should p

jazz chord names

Hi there, I'd like to be able to easliy print jazz chord names above the measures (hopefully in a graphical front end). Anyone know how to do this? I'd like to be able to print things like G-9/F , which would be a slash chord. It would be nice to have font controls too.. reg

Chord names font

Hello everybody!! I'm trying to change the font used to print the chord names using the "override Chordname font-name" command. It works fine (thanks Steve!), but it doesn't print the chord root alterations. This is the code I'm using: \new ChordNames \with { \ov

Arbitrary chord names?

I want add arbritrary chord names above a piano staff When I do for example g:m/d in a ChordNames context, this chokes lilypond. I want to add that manually in the ChordNames context. Is there a way to do this? ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Chord Names

hi, On 12/5/05, Gordon Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now ... I'm entering a piece with melody, lyrics, and chordnames which > calls for "FMaj7", and any combination of that seems to make the program > crash. What's the correct syntax to get that chordname? I've searched > through the Manu

Re: Chord Names

Gordon Gilbert wrote: Now ... I'm entering a piece with melody, lyrics, and chordnames which calls for "FMaj7", and any combination of that seems to make the program crash. What's the correct syntax to get that chordname? I use: f:maj7 Which is rendered as f with the wee triangle. Jen

Re: Chord Names

Gordon Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to produce a sheet for the guitarists with > the chords in A, and a notation to use "capo 2", but leave > the original melody in B. Did you try to \transpose b a the chords? -- Feri. ___ lilyp

Showing Chord Names

Could someone show me how to modify the following code so that chord names would appear above the upper staff?   Tanks.       \version "2.4.0"   upper = \relative c' { \clef treble \key c \major  \time 4/4   c1 ~ c4. c8~c d4 e8 e4. d8 d2 ~ d4 r4 a

Showing Chord Names

This is a repeat of a question I sent last Sunday. Could someone show me how to modify the following code so that chord names would appear above the upper staff? I have been unable to find the answer to this in the online documentation. If my question is not clear, I would appreciate

Re: chord-names

ord is (0 2 0) (0 6 0) (1 2 > 0) to which > +5/-5 or no5, +11/-11 +13/-13 could be applied as an alteration (in > American/Jazz, anyway). This is a sensible approach for Jazz and American, > although less so for Banter, I suspect. At the risk of repeating myself; I know very little abou

Re: chord names

Hi Rafael, chord names have been fixed by me for 1.6.7. This code has been ported to 1.7, cleaned up and expanded furthermore by Han-Wen and Jan. > I've just started using Lilypond (1.6.6) and I can't get chord names to > work. I found some messages in the archives about this

Transposing chord names

I am unable to transpose chord names correctly. If I enter chords as e1:m7 f1:maj7 etc then they print correctly on the score but do not transpose with the rest of the score. My notes and key signature do transpose correctly. If I enter e-minor7 chord as <> then it transposes but displ

Transposing chord names

.ly example please. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am unable to transpose chord names correctly. > > If I enter chords as e1:m7 f1:maj7 etc then they print correctly on the > score but do not transpose with the rest of the score. My notes and key > signature do transpose correc

RE: chord names

For Hungarian chords IMHO using \include "deutsch.ly" and using \semiGermanChords is the _best_ choice: \chords { \semiGermanChords d2:min g d1:min... } I think that because F#, Ab and so is more readable than Fis and As and so (and certainly looks more professional). I know that this isn't an an

Chord Names, and "/"

Is it possible to do something like: G7 / / / | D7 / G7 / | etc? currently I have written: G7 G7 G7 G7 | D7 D7 G7 G7 | and it looks kinda busy. Oh, one other thing in regards to chords, when you have a repeat, the chord names are ontop of the repeat marks... +--G7--B7--A7-- +--A7--B7

Re: Intervalic Chord Names

Am 28.08.18 um 15:29 schrieb Tom Swan: Sorry for duplication but my previous try didn't seem to go through.) It came through; it just seems like it was overlooked by many. I need some help figuring out how to change chord names (C, F, G) into intervals such as (I, IV, V). The

Re: Intervalic Chord Names

go through.) > > It came through; it just seems like it was overlooked by many. > >> I need some help figuring out how to change chord names (C, F, G) into >> intervals such as (I, IV, V). The short example below displays a timing >> diagram for a melodic line, but I would

Re: Intervalic Chord Names

Am 28.08.18 um 18:57 schrieb Jacques Menu Muzhic: Do I guess it right that you’d like tonality-relative numbers, i.e. V7 for A7 in D major? That’s indeed probable. There are two possibilities what to do about that: 1. Get the tonic from the key signature as it is done in these snippets: ht

Re: Intervalic Chord Names

That worked perfectly! Thank you. I am not very familiar with lilypond internals, but now I am also intrigued by your solution. I am determined now to learn scheme. :-) > > Do you need lowercase numbers (i to vii) too? And how about accidentals? > I am comfortable with IVm7 or IV-7 but I am c

Re: Intervalic Chord Names

continued reply... Re: accidentals, yes that will be necessary. Do you have an idea about how to go about that? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Intervalic Chord Names

On 2018-08-29 10:25, Tom Swan wrote: continued reply... Re: accidentals, yes that will be necessary. Do you have an idea about how to go about that? Hi Tom, Building upon the code from scm/chord-name.scm (and related files) as well as (LSR #750)[1], here is a more complete version of the int

Alternate, parenthesised chord names

Hi, In jazz lead sheets one often comes across alternate chord names in parentheses written above the standard chord to signify an alternative harmony that can be played. I have tried doing that using this as a simple example of an alternative IIm7-V7 back to Imaj: \version "2.25.4"

Re: Modify chord names

Check out Customizing Chord Names - Chord Name Exceptions in the notation guide. For example: % modify maj9 and 6(add9) % Exception music is chords with markups chExceptionMusic = { 1-\markup { \super "maj9" } 1-\markup { \super "6(add9)" } } On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:51 AM,

Re: Modify chord names

> I have a - possibly rather trivial - problem with chord names. > If I enter e.g. "g:13" and "bes:maj7.11+" in chordmode, the > ChordNames staff prints "G9/add13" and "Bb^/add#11" (where the "^" > is the Delta-symbol). What I would like

Re: Modify chord names

Lilypond for a couple of weeks now, and I have to > > say that I absolutely love it! And the magnitude of knowledge and > > helpfulness in this mailinglist is just amazing. > > > > I have a - possibly rather trivial - problem with chord names. > > If I enter e.g. &

Re: chord names position

ng various search terms but have not found an example as yet. I have this example with chord names over the treble clef. I would like to move the chord names further away from the staff as a group if possible. \version "2.15.0" #(set-default-paper-size "letter") #(set

collision of chord names

Hi all, I'm engraving a choral piece in which all line breaks and page breaks were calculated automatically. The layout is just the way it is supposed to be. Unfortunately in two measures some rather long chord names collide (A F#m/B | E F#m/B). Is there a way to resolve the colli

Help changing chord names

Hi. How do I change the chord name to just D13, not D9 13, as in the following snippet? This is probably rudimentary, but I'm a bit rusty and just getting back into lp. Thanks. -- Tom \version "2.18.2"songChords = \chordmode { {d1:13} |} \score { << \new ChordNames { \songChords } >> \layout { }}

Re: Multiple chord names?

If you mean alternative chords on top of each other, I just place two ChordNames contexts in the score and have the upper one contain mostly spacers plus the alternative chord names wherever one is needed ... Best, Robert > On 15 Dec 2017, at 00:20, Menu Jacques wrote: > > He

Re: Multiple chord names?

r, I just place two > ChordNames contexts in the score and have the upper one contain mostly > spacers plus the alternative chord names wherever one is needed ... > > Best, Robert > > On 15 Dec 2017, at 00:20, Menu Jacques <mailto:imj-...@bluewin.ch>> wrote: >

Re: Multiple chord names?

JM > >> Le 15 déc. 2017 à 11:15, Robert Schmaus a écrit : >> >> If you mean alternative chords on top of each other, I just place two >> ChordNames contexts in the score and have the upper one contain mostly >> spacers plus the alternative chord names wherever o

Text above chord names

Hi! excuse my bad english. How can I place some text above the chordnames? Thanks in advance -- *Adrián Fernández Fazio* *Músico* fernandezfazio.com.ar https://www.facebook.com/adrian.fernandezfazio https://twitter.com/afernandezfazio http://adrianfernandezfa

Re: Chord names font

Hi Ralph, you can add those commands in the \layout section: %--- % Chord names \version "2.19.33" \include "english.ly" tune =\relative { g'4 g a g | } tuneChords = \chordmode { g2 d2 } \score { << \new ChordNames \

Re: Chord names font

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Klaus Blum wrote: > Hi Ralph, > > you can add those commands in the \layout section: Thanks again, Klaus. It's been too long since I did a lot of new stuff with LilyPond. I did find a thread in the archives that talked about setting the magnification, but I cou

Re: Chord names font

On 6/15/16 6:25 AM, "Ralph Palmer" wrote: >Greetings - >I'm getting closer. I'm running LY 2.19.33 under Win 7. > >How can I change the size of the chord names, and/or change them to bold. >I've tried a few possibilities, and looked in the Notation Refe

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

El 01.03.2009, a las 01:12, Tim McNamara escribió: A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a song that is not played the last time through. For example in "Easy Living" the turnaround o

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 01:12, Tim McNamara escribió: A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a song that is not played the last time through. For example in "Easy Liv

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

El 01.03.2009, a las 12:47, M Watts escribió: James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 01:12, Tim McNamara escribió: A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a song that is not playe

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

hord — see attached. Hope this helps! Kieren. \version "2.12.2" #(define (parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass inversion context) (markup #:line ("(" (ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass inversion context) ")"))) chordset = \chordmode { c1:7 g1:7

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

Tim McNamara wrote: Rather than writing a separate ending, I'd like to just parenthesize the last three chords over the final two bars so they would render: F(Ab7Dbmaj7C7) ChordName outputs via text-interface, so the easiest way should be \once \override ChordNames.Cho

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 12:47, M Watts escribió: James E. Bailey wrote: El 01.03.2009, a las 01:12, Tim McNamara escribió: A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

Hi all, This may be the easiest solution? \version "2.12.2" #(define (left-parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass inversion context) (markup #:line ("( " (ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass inversion context #(define (right-parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-n

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

BC/RBC and it seems easier to have something like this in chord mode. \set chordNameFunction = #my-parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-names \set bracket= "round" \set bracket-dir = "left" And a scheme function with some if /then/else statements. You see what I mean ? Kieren MacMillan

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

Robin Bannister wrote: As "addBrackets" it wrapped only a single chord, but you could derive a left_only and a right_only version easily enough. I wanted to see if I could make such a pair deliver something close to what the OP illustrated, and managed this using \put-adjacent. This itself r

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

This works very well Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Hi all, > > This may be the easiest solution? > > \version "2.12.2" > > #(define (left-parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass > inversion context) > (markup #:line ("( &quo

Re: Chord Names Tweak

Jonathan, On 5/2/09 2:23 PM, "Jonathan Townes" wrote: > Hello all, > Does anyone have suggestions for tweaking the position of accidental in > chord names. For example, the flat sign in in the chord name Ab? I > find in the default Lilypond setting the flat symbol is to

Re: minor chord names

On 7/10/09 11:17 AM, "fiëé visuëlle" wrote: > Hello pond comrades, > > some time ago I asked about displaying minor chord names as lowercase > letters without the "m" modifier, as it is common (at least) in German > folk songbooks. > I.e. > > \

Re: minor chord names

Am 2009-07-10 um 22:06 schrieb Carl Sorensen: Is this possible nowadays, and how? As far as I know, it is not yet possible. It is on a feature request list for Thomas's rewrite of the chord naming functions. Thank you, then I must still wait - I hope it will work in september, since I'l

Re: minor chord names

On 7/10/09 4:17 PM, "fiëé visuëlle" wrote: > Am 2009-07-10 um 22:06 schrieb Carl Sorensen: >>> Is this possible nowadays, and how? >> >> As far as I know, it is not yet possible. It is on a feature >> request list >> for Thomas's rewrite of the chord naming functions. > > Thank you, then I

Chord names above staff

I searched the archives but I still can´t figure it out - how do I make the chord names appear ABOVE the staff? Can someone please help me out, what am I doing wrong? This is the code: \version "2.8.0" mel = \relative c' {\partial2. a4 a cis | cis1 | r4 a a b | b1 r4 b4 b cis d1

Re: jazz chord names

Just read the section on "Chord names" in the LilyPond user manual, to get an idea of what can be done in LilyPond. I'm surprised that you managed to find out about this mailing list but not about the user manual. /Mats Quoting Rich E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi there, I

Chord names below staff?

How can I get lilypond to position a row of chord names below the staff instead of above? (I.e where lyrics are normally positioned). We have a lot of existing music with chords in this position, mostly generated by sibelius or handwritten, and it gets confusing if the chords are in different

Chord Names Font Size

How do you change the default font size of chord names? I have tried the following but it didn't work: \chords { \set fontSize = #-2 e2.:m e:m e:m b:7 b:7 b:7 b:7 e:m g d } \version "2.6.5 Thank you. ___ lilypond-user ma

RE: Chord Names, and "/"

> G7 / / / | D7 / G7 / | etc? If you don't need slashes you can use g:7 s2. | etc. I don't know what to do to have slashes in chord names. > Oh, one other thing in regards to chords, when you have a repeat, the > chord names are ontop of the repeat marks... See: http://m

Re: Chord Names, and "/"

Jeremy Cowgar wrote: Oh, one other thing in regards to chords, when you have a repeat, the chord names are ontop of the repeat marks... +--G7--B7--A7-- +--A7--B7--C7-- | 1: | 2: etc... Is their any way to fix that? I asked that on February 22 and got from Walter Hofmeister

Re: Showing Chord Names

Title: Re: Showing Chord Names On 2/22/05 7:49 PM, "Claude Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a repeat of a question I sent last Sunday. Could someone show me how to modify the following code so that chord names would appear above the upper staff? I have been unable to

Re: Showing Chord Names

Claude Lord wrote: This is a repeat of a question I sent last Sunday. Could someone show me how to modify the following code so that chord names would appear above the upper staff? I have been unable to find the answer to this in the online documentation. If my question is not clear, I would

Re: Showing Chord Names

Claude-- In my recent response to you, where I pasted a version of your .ly file that I modified, the output looks better if you substitute the word GrandStaff for every instance of PianoStaff in the file. Your original file used GrandStaff and I changed it to PianoStaff so it would have a brace

Re: Showing Chord Names

Why not read in the manual about the exact differences between GrandStaff, PianoStaff, ChoirStaff and StaffGroup, so you don't have to do trial and error the next time. /Mats Steve D wrote: Claude-- In my recent response to you, where I pasted a version of your .ly file that I modified, the out

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