Re: Chord names with I, IV, V, etc.

[M Watts]

Geoffrey Prewett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently begun using lilypond to make lead sheets.  The songs I play
> have a tendency to get transposed to different keys, depending on the situation,
> so I would like to put the meta-chord (or whatever I, ii, IV, V, etc. are
> supposed to be called) instead of the chord for a given key.  I assume that
> I could do this by creating a custom chordRootNamer function, but I can't
> find any examples on how to do that.  Are there any examples or documentation
> I can look at?
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff Prewett
>   


Try these posts:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-11/msg00238.html

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-04/msg00127.html

and maybe thread starting here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-06/msg00196.html