RE: Fret Diagrams

[Peter Gentry]

Thank's Thomas that solves my problem..

I think I will have to change from a set of PDF manuals to the html version. I 
searched all the files for "Fret" and "N.C."
selecting the "any of the words option". This may have found the reference but 
could have been lost in a cascade of hits. 

Searching for \set noChordSymbol finds all the lines containing \set. It is a 
bit hit and miss searching for an answer much easier
to search when you know the answer. Search for noChordSymbol finds the answer.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Morley [mailto:address@hidden 
>Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 7:14 PM
>To: Peter Gentry
>Cc: lilypond-user
>Subject: Re: Fret Diagrams
>
>Hi Peter,
>
>2016-01-31 19:29 GMT+01:00 Peter Gentry <address@hidden>:
>> This may be trivial but searches of themanuals etc have not 
>born fruit.
>>
>> How do you prevent the markup N.C. appearing where there is a note 
>> rest. In fact  N.C. does not always appear sometimes once in 
>a bar sometimes twice for no immediately apparent reason.
>
>searching for N.C. in Notation Reference give an immediate 
>hit, pointing to 
>http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/displa
>ying-chords#printing-chord-names
>
>Where you can read:
>Rests passed to a ChordNames context will cause the 
>noChordSymbol markup to be displayed.
>
>So:
>It has nothing to do with Fret Diagrams, but ChordNames.
>Everywhere you wrote rests the noChordSymbol appears for each rest.
>
>>
>> If r1 is replaced by R1 then no "N.C." markup.
>
>R1 is a MultiMeasureRest not a Rest, so noChordSymbol is not printed.
>Some for spacers, btw.
>
>Maybe we should extend the example from the NR to demonstrate 
>how to change noChordSymbol.
>
>Here your shortened example with some possibilities:
>
>
>m =
>  \chordmode {
>    e1:7 |
>    s1 |
>    r1 |
>    a2 g |
>    c2:dim7 a:7 |
>    d1 |
>    \set noChordSymbol = "foo"
>    r1 |
>    \set noChordSymbol = ""
>    r2 r4 g |
>    R1
>  }
>
><<
>    \new ChordNames \with { noChordSymbol = "--x--" }\m
>    \new Staff \m
>>>
>
>
>HTH,
>  Harm