Re: Chords

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi David,

> This function seems to center the chord names (root name and suffix) 
> precisely on the leftmost edge of the notehead. While I feel that this is 
> preferable to LilyPond's default setting, I wonder if there's a way to nudge 
> the chord symbols about 1/2 a space to the right (I'm sure there is, but my 
> total ignorance of Scheme and music functions prohibits me from figuring it 
> out).

What you really want is a Scheme function to actually centre it on the 
notehead, regardless of width.

A similar thing was being done with lyrics -- perhaps this thread (and the 
authors thereof) can help:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-02/msg00573.html>

Cheers,
Kieren.