Re: Parentheses around a ChordName and unending LyricExtenders

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2008 schrieb Mats Bengtsson:
> Christopher Johnson wrote:
> > Salutations, y'all!
> >
> > I have two questions.
> >
> > How do I put parentheses around a ChordName grob generated from a \new
> > ChordNames {   } staff?  I'm typesetting some of my cousin's
> > compositions for her and she insists this is very important.  The only
> > thing that I've found that comes close to doing what I want is to omit
> > the chords to be parenthesized from the ChordNames context and then
> > tack them on as above-staff markups in the appropriate places—which
> > looks bad because the parenthesized chord markup grobs are not
> > properly aligned vertically with the ChordName grobs.  Any help here?
>
> Popular question! See
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-03/msg00275.html
> However, note that with the upcoming LilyPond version 2.11.44, you will
> be able to use
>     \parenthesize f:sus4

Yes, but notice that the parenthesis is way too small for my taste. The 
parenthesis is the right size for note heads and accidentals, but not for 
other parenthesized objects...

> > I have found that if I do not put any additional words or syllables
> > after a lyric extender (in the same Lyrics staff context) and where
> > the music continues onward after the lyric extender should stop, then
> > the lyric extender will just go on indefinitely!!  That's definitely
> > not what I want.
>
> I couldn't repeat the problem here. Test case:

I suppose it's the same problem described here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-08/msg00040.html

A quick workaround is to place a "" in those lyrics voices, where no refrain 
will be shown:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-08/msg00043.html

Cheers,
Reinhold
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