Re: Beginners first attempt

[Paul Scott]

Colin Wilding wrote:
> There are quite a few ways in which you could make your life easier here, I
> think.
>
> 1.  You should be able to use variables for chords - you didn't put the
> contents of Chords.ly in your email so I can't see why it didn't work; a
> definition like this works ok:
>
> gDown = { <gis dis' gis' b' dis'' gis''>4 \downbow }
>
> Once the chord is in a variable you can't then attach markup to it later
> (and you have to put the \downbow in the definition too). 
Sure you can:

<< { s<x>^\markup{ ... } } { ... \gDown ... } >>

Where <x> is some time value.  If you want to move the markup relative 
to gDown just add more "s" values before s<x>.

This may also work for the downbow but I don't have time to research it 
right not.  (Playing the clarinet for "Rhapsody in Blue" in a couple of 
hours).

Paul Scott