Re: house chord style - global?

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 10/2/08 9:59 AM, "plutek-infinity" <address@hidden> wrote:

> i also wish to have chord symbols only notated when they change. normally, to
> implement that and the chord symbol modifications, i must put this in any
> \chords blocks which occur in any ly files:
>
> \set chordNameExceptions = #chExceptions
> \set chordChanges = ##t
>
> that all works fine, but i'm wondering if there is some way of setting
> chordNameExceptions and chordChanges globally, in the house-style.ly file,
> instead of having to \set it in every \chords block of every score.
>

You can do this quite easily.

You need to remember that \chords is a shortcut for
\new ChordNames { \chordmode { }}

All you need to do is redefine the defaults for the ChordNames context.

The details for doing this are explained in the 2.11 documentation, section
5.1.4 Changing context default settings

Once you have this done, perhaps you could post the results to
the LilyPond Snippet Repository.

Thanks,

Carl Sorensen