Re: .scm files

[James Hammons]

> I'm trying to figure out how to change the (IMO) wrong defs in the
> american chord-style, or pref add a "jazz-style".

What's wrong with the american chord style?  Did you check
american-chords.ly to see how they should look?  IMO, I think that if you're
looking for chords for jazz lead sheets that you mess with the jazz style
(if it exists--at last check I thought it did)...

> If I make changes to the
> chord-names.scm nothing changes, should something be recompiled, and if
> so: what? I have installed Lily from rpm's...

You don't have to recompile anything.  You only have to edit
chord-names.scm.  Now that I'm looking at it, it doesn't seem that there is
a separate jazz style.  Perhaps there should be?  I would assume (Jan?) that
it would take a form similar to

(define chord::names-alist-jazz '())
(set! chord::names-alist-jazz
    (append
      '(

; Jazz chord name definitions go here

       )
     chord::names-alist-jazz))

I can write it if you can tell me how it deviates from the existing american
style...  Again, look at input/test/american-chords.ly and tell me what
should be different.

-- Shamus