Re: house chord style - global?

[plutek-infinity]

>From: "Carl D. Sorensen" <address@hidden>
>Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:43:13 -0600

>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 for your help, carl!

i've posted a snippet.

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