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Re: showing alternative chordname


From: bart deruyter
Subject: Re: showing alternative chordname
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 11:54:45 +0200

@David : hey, thanks, that was a quick fix :-).
@Michael: I tried this but on the chordnames, not on the notes, foolish me... :-)

grtz,

Bart


2015-08-03 11:35 GMT+02:00 Michael Hendry <address@hidden>:

> On 3 Aug 2015, at 10:16, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> bart deruyter <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I got stuck here in a transcription of a folk tune. I'd like to show a
>> possible alternative for a chord e.g.:
>> C(Gm7). It's written like this in the orignal, but I'm not sure if that's
>> the correct way to describe a possible alternative for a chord, or how to
>> achieve it.
>>
>> if anyone has an idea...
>
> \chords { c4 g \once \override ChordName.text = "C(Gm7)" c g }
>
> Works as of version 2.19.9 (issue 3966) in connection with detecting
> chord changes, but the original implementation is in 2.17.2
> (issue 2813).  Most uses will likely work as expected even then.
>
> --
> David Kastrup
> _______________________________________________

You could also use

^\markup “(gm7)”

After the first note in the relevant bar of the melody, which puts this and any other alternative chords at a different level above the stave from the original chords.

Michael




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