Re: chords as roman numerals?

[Michael Vanier]

Your second suggestion (putting the text into lyrics mode) works quite
well.  The only problem is that the text is not aligned correctly for
chords with subscripts and superscripts.  With a "I" chord the "I" lines up
with the note, but with a "V_7" chord the "7" lines up with the note.
Oddly enough "IV" chords work fine; the note lines up to the point between
the "I" and the "V".  Similarly, "V7" lines up correctly.  Is this a bug?
Is there a way to control this?

Mike

> Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 11:36:16 +0200
> From: Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>
> 
> If you only wanted numbers and accidentals, you could have used the
> support for figured bass (see the reference manual). However, for
> your needs, I would recommend to typeset them using ordinary text 
> markup, which also is well described in the manual. The disadvantage
> is that the different chord indications will not be aligned vertically.
> If you want them vertically aligned, you could typeset as a lyrics line.
> But then you would have to say something like V$_7$ to get the subscripts,
> 
>     /Mats
> 
> Michael Vanier wrote:
> > Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I've been scouring the Lilypond
> > documentation and the mailing lists and I can't find an answer to this
> > question.  How do I print chords as roman numerals e.g. I, V_7, I_6_4
> > (where the _ means "subscript")?  I want to do this in a piano score, with
> > the chords appearing below the staves.  I'm willing to enter the chord
> > numerals explicitly; I don't expect lilypond to deduce them for me ;-)
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > 
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