Re: Canonical[ish] place to get pop-chords.ly or jazz-chords.ly? Also, chords advice?

[Tim McNamara]

On May 10, 2014, at 9:11 AM, rif <address@hidden> wrote:

Apparently I can get just say f:7.9- to get an F7b9.  Hooray!  Still wondering if there's a canonical place for pop-chords.

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:06 AM, rif <address@hidden> wrote:

I see many references to this on the mailing list, but are these files anywhere standard?  I grabbed an old jazz-chords.ly from some mailing list message, but then it didn't work when I included it, and it had no version number so I couldn't figure out how to convert it.

What I actually want to do: single line melodies with chord symbols.  I'm using the "Simple lead sheet" from http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/chords as an example, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do things like get an F7b9 symbol in there.  Most of the "chords" examples I find lying around seem to be built around the idea that you want to show a bunch of pitches of a chord and then get the name automatically?  What am I missing?

The Lilypond Snippet Repository (a.k.a LSR) is a very helpful place to look for this sort of thing.  I don't have the URL handy on my iPad but the name ought to be enough to help you find it via a web search.