Re: Chord Naming

[James Bailey]

On 25.04.2010, at 01:46, Tim Rowe wrote:

> On 25 April 2010 00:30, Jonathan Kulp <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Tim Rowe <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I'm sure I used to be able to do this, but now I can't. I must be
> > > getting forgetful!
> > >
> > > How do I get Lilypond to show chord names instead of jazz symbols  
> > > (I'm
> > > not a jazzer!)
> > >
> > > In other words, I want C major 7 to show as Cmaj7, not as C with a
> > > triangle next to it.
> >
> > Check out this snippet:
> >
> > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=459
>
> Um, well, thanks I suppose. I can't make any sense out of that
> whatsoever. Does this mean that I have to learn Scheme to get Lilypond
> to produce (what I think of as) standard chord notation?
>
> --
> Tim Rowe

Yes. And No. If you look at that snippet, the very first bit, the  
chExceptionMusic defines what the chords should look like, in markup.  
In terms of getting the chords to look the way you want, you only  
need markup. But, to understand where to put that, it just takes a  
bit of critical thinking about what changes what. For the record. I  
don't know Scheme, and I figured it out. It takes a bit of trial and  
error, but Scheme isn't really necessary to do it.