Re: OT: Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 19:08 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> > "Chord Chart”
> 
> +1
> 
> > the compact chord symbols have yet to make it into LilyPond
> 
> I don’t think those (or any other) chord symbols should “make it into
> Lilypond” 

I wrote too tersely, it is not the "symbols" bit rather the "compact"
bit I was referring to here. 
LilyPond only supports arranging the elements of a chord symbol (Root
Name, attributes, bass-inversion) in a fixed way, taking up an elegant
amount of space between these parts. For a compact chord symbol (for
display on a hand-held device) these need to be arranged to take up less
horizontal space. The patch currently waiting to "make it into LilyPond"
does that. You as a user still need to decide whether you want -7 or 7-
or whatever for the attributes by writing chord-exceptions.

Richard