Re: roman numeral chord notation

[Eric Swenson]

Thanks David.

This appears to work fine when adding markup to a staff (as in annotating below the staff).  However, I'm trying to reference chords using this notation in text, in a music theory discussion regarding chord resolution.  Since this isn't within lilypond markup, I don't think I can use this.

I tried the obvious in my .lytex file:

\lilypondfile[quote,noindent]{rN.ly}

\begin[fragment,quote,staffsize=26,verbatim]{lilypond}

  \rN { V 4/3 }

\end{lilypond}

As well as preceeding the \rN with \markup, and both result in errors such as:

lilypond-book --output=out --pdf bar.lytex

lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.16.2

Reading bar.lytex...

Running `pdflatex' on file `/var/folders/4m/_ndvz2k14wj63vptwlb4fs740000gn/T/tmpg_VEGR.tex' to detect default page settings.

Dissecting...

Writing snippets...

Processing...

Running lilypond...

GNU LilyPond 2.16.2

Processing `snippet-map--2975239498719330227.ly'

Parsing...

Processing `bar.lytex'

Parsing...

bar.lytex:29:2: error: unknown escaped string: `\rN'

  

  \rN { V 4/3 }

bar.lytex:29:2: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING

  

  \rN { V 4/3 }

bar.lytex:21:0: error: errors found, ignoring music _expression_

{

fatal error: failed files: "ee/lily-62b9e5aa.ly"

Any suggestions?  Or should I just try to figure out the superscript-subscript tex macros to make this work?  Thanks.

-- Eric

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:57 PM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Eric,

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Eric Swenson <address@hidden> wrote:

I'm trying to write up some text using latex (and lilypond-book) that
describes cadences and chords using notation such as IV4/3, where I
with the 4 to be typeset directly above the 3 and the 4/3 designation
to the right of the roman numeral chord designator.  How can I do this
in lilypond-book (lilypond)?

It looks like the

  \new FiguredBass {
    \figuremode {}
   }

is intended to be used along with music (e.g. under a staff).  I'm trying
to reference this in a latex document, where I'm using lilypond-book.

Can anyone give me any advice?  Should I simply not use lilypond for this,
and resort to straight latex macros?  Any pointers to same?

You can create the Roman numeral analysis with LilyPond using the \rN command defined here:

 http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg69861/rN.ly

HTH,

David