Re: bad spacing

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 5/5/09 9:03 PM, "Victor Eijkhout" <address@hidden> wrote:

> This looks really bad:
> 
> harpchords = \relative c' { \time 15/8
>    s2^"C" s2^"G/B" s2^"Am" s4. | s2^"Cmaj7/B" s2^"Em/G" s2^"F" s4. |
>    s2^G s2^"F/A" s2^"G/B" s4. | s2^"Dm/A" s2^"Dm/F" s2 s4. |
>    \repeat volta 2 {
>      s2^C s2^"G/B" s2^"Am" s4.^"Am/G#" | s2^"Cmaj7/G" s2^"Em" s2^F
> s4.^"Bb/F" |
>      s2^G s2^"F/A" s2^"G/B" s4.^"Fdim/G#" | s2^"Am" s2^F s2 s4. |
>    } s2^"C"
> }
> 
> \score {
> \new Staff { \set Staff.instrumentName = "Harp"  \harpchords }
> }
> 
> Should it look better, or am I using the wrong mechanism?

Why not use a ChordNames context?  As you have written this, the chords are
just text, not really music elements.

If I were writing this, I think I'd write it as:

harpchords = \relative c' \chordmode {
  \time 15/8
  c2 g/b a:m s4. |
  c2:maj7/b e:m/g f s4. |
...
}

\score {
  << 
   \new ChordNames \harpchords
   \new Staff {
      \set Staff.instrumentName = "Harp"
      \harpchords
   }
  >>
}

Of course, this will set the notes as well as the chord names, which you may
not want to have.

Thanks,

Carl


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