Re: Chord names in a score

[Andy Deitrich]

Thanks so much for taking a look!

> On Aug 19, 2016, at 6:02 PM, Malte Meyn <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Am 19.08.2016 um 23:32 schrieb Andy Deitrich:
>> It put the mandolin chords on a new, 3rd staff.  It probably has something
>> to do with defining "mando" as a staff. I don't know how else to get the
>> mandolin chords to appear above the staff.
>> 
>> Does this help explain?
> 
> Your code is far from minimal (and not working because guitarMusic isn’t 
> defined and some curly braces are missing) but I was able to find your 
> problem in this smaller (but also not minimal) example:
> 
> %%%%%%%% BEGIN EXAMPLE
> \version "2.19.46"
> 
> mandoMusic = \relative c' {
>  \new Staff = "mando"
>  \time 6/8
>  R2.
>  \override NoteHead #'style = #'slash
>  \repeat percent 6 {
>    <<
>      \chords \with {
>        alignAboveContext = "mando"
>      } { s4 c8 s4. }
>      { r4\mp b'8 r4 b8 }
>    >>
>  }
> }
> 
> 
> \score {
>  \new StaffGroup <<
>    \new Staff {
>      \mandoMusic
>    }
>  >>
> }
> %%%%%%%% END EXAMPLE
> 
> You define a (new) Staff which contains mandoMusic which contains a (new) 
> Staff called “mando” which contains the \time 6/8 and nothing else. Inside of 
> the (outer/upper) Staff a new ChordNames context is created that is aligned 
> above the other (lower) Staff. So there’s just one unnecessary Staff.
> 
> Two possible solutions:
> 1. create only the outer staff, call it “mando”, and align the chords above 
> this staff:
> 
> %%%%%%%% BEGIN FIRST SOLUTION
> \version "2.19.46"
> 
> mandoMusic = \relative c' {
>  \time 6/8
>  R2.
>  \override NoteHead #'style = #'slash
>  \repeat percent 6 {
>    <<
>      \chords \with {
>        alignAboveContext = "mando"
>      } { s4 c8 s4. }
>      { r4\mp b'8 r4 b8 }
>    >>
>  }
> }
> 
> \score {
>  \new StaffGroup <<
>    \new Staff = "mando" \mandoMusic
>  >>
> }
> %%%%%%%% END FIRST SOLUTION
> 
> 2. separate ChordNames and Staff from each other; you won’t have any 
> alignment issues:
> 
> %%%%%%%% BEGIN SECOND SOLUTION
> \version "2.19.46"
> 
> mandoMusic = \relative c' {
>  \time 6/8
>  R2.
>  \override NoteHead #'style = #'slash
>  \repeat percent 6 {
>    r4\mp b'8 r4 b8
>  }
> }
> 
> chordMusic = \chordmode {
>  s2.
>  s4 c8 s4.
> }
> 
> \score {
>  \new StaffGroup <<
>    \new ChordNames \chordMusic
>    \new Staff \mandoMusic
>  >>
> }
> %%%%%%%% END SECOND SOLUTION
> 
> HTH
> Malte