Re: Moving markup box above chord names in a leadsheet?

[Mats Bengtsson]

One solution is to upgrade to the latest development version, where
any text marks, i.e.
\mark \markup{...}
now appear above the chords, in contrast to what you get in version 2.10 and
earlier.

See also 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-01/msg00734.html
which describes a method to move the text marks in version 2.10.

Regarding the tuplets, there have been recent discussions on changing the
syntax, but your proposal didn't show there. From a mathematical point
of view, I agree that it could be nice, and you could more or less use the
same idea today with scaled durations such as c8*2/3. However, for
a user who does not have a background in mathematics or computer
science, I'm afraid that your proposal would just cause confusion.
Also, it does not distinguish between c8*2/3 and c16*4/3, for example.

  /Mats

seppo silaste wrote:
> In making lead sheets, I would like to have the part indication box 'c4^
> \markup {\box {chorus}}' appear above the chord-names instead of between
> staff and chord names. I've been searching for hours after a solution
> but to no avail. Any suggestions?
>
> As a new Lilypond user I wonder why the note length specifying logic 
> is not extended to tuplets also; ie. in addition to 1 2 4 8 ... you 
> would have the tuplets 3 6 12 ... 20 40 ... and so on? It seems a 
> litter overkill to use the \times command on simple triplets.
>
> -seppo silaste
>
> p.s. I made a program that enables me to write a leadsheet for Lilypond
> like this (view it with a monospaced font to see the logic of the 
> formatting):
>
> \tempo 4=74
>
>       <verse 1>
>       g2:m               es   g:m                d:m
> |bb4/4 g4  g16 g   a  bes r2 | g8. g16 g  g8  f16 d4 r |
>       Puu-pa--nee-li-a        ruu-su--ta-pet-ti--a
>
>  c1                                           es2    bes
> | c8  bes16 c~c8 bes16 c r16 c8   bes16 c8   d  | es4 r2.    |
>  muo-vi----mat--to----ja    joil-la    luis-tel--la
>
>
> etc. (the lyrics are in finnish). '|bb4/4' means b-flat major in 4/4. 
> Repeats can
> be added with '|: ... :|'. The '<verse 1>'-tag will appear in a box 
> above the staff. The text between < and > can be anything. It will be 
> attached as a '\markup' to the nearest note on the melody line below. 
> In this case it will be attached to the 'g4'. The syllables in the 
> lyrics may be separeted with any number (>0) of '-':s.
>
> This format makes it a lot easier (at least for me) to keep track of
> where I'm going. The program Lilylead parses this file and feeds it to
> Lilypond. Anyone iterested can get it from me (opensource ;o)
>
>
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