On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, aabb wrote:
I achieve this by creating 2 parts, so that the transposed chords
appear
below the original ones. I've seen this format used in a number of
published song books. You can create the "Capo 3", or similar text
using
the \set instrument command. This puts "Capo 3" to the far left of
the
first system, aligned with the transposed chords. I include an
example
below. This works for Lilypond version 2.8. I can't vouch for older
versions. The command in the \layout block is needed because, by
default, ChordNames parts don't seem to print the instrument name.
Yes, that works - thanks! It doesn't produce output quite the same
as I'm used to, but it's close enough. Turns out that all I was
doing wrong was not using \New - d'oh!
I played with chord name exceptions, but they didn't obviously seem
to be able to use the existing chord as a parameter - so I could
turn G into G() easily, but not G into G(E).
Now my only problem is that my MIDIs have two sets of chords
playing in different keys! Is it possible (without an entirely
separate score construct for MIDI) to mute a staff or chordname
group, so it still renders but doesn't produce any MIDI output?
I've tried playing with minvolume and maxvolume, but they don't
seem to have any effect on ChordName objects....
Also, it would be nice to be able to put one set of chords in
brackets. Chord name exceptions only seem to be able to deal with
text *after* the chords; so they can give me G) but not (G). Any
ideas?
Thanks,
Tim
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