Re: a:4 chord

[M Watts]

Miklos Vajna wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First, sorry if this was already discussed, I did not found anything
> regarding this in the documentation.
>
> So I have the following block in my .ly file:
>
> \chords {
>         a:7
> }
>
> and this is properly rendered to something similar to "A^7".
>
> Now I want the same with A^4, so I type:
>
> \chords {
>         a:4
> }
>
> and I get: A^4/sus4/add3.
>
> Question: How do I get just an "A^4"? :)
>
> Thanks.
>   

Just use a chord name exception -- it looks like a lot of setting up, 
but it's well worth it, and only needs to be done once.  You can also 
put this kind of thing in a separate file and \include it.

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\version "2.12.2"

% modify suspended 4th chords
% Exception music is chords with markups
chExceptionMusic = {
 <c e f>1-\markup { \super 4 }
 }

% Convert music to list and prepend to existing exceptions.
chExceptions = #( append
 ( sequential-music-to-chord-exceptions chExceptionMusic #t)
 ignatzekExceptions)

theMusic = \chordmode {
 a1:4
 \set chordNameExceptions = #chExceptions
 a1:4
}


<<
   \context ChordNames \theMusic
   \context Voice \theMusic
>> 


\layout {
 ragged-right = ##t
}