Re: question about minor + fourth

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> 2016-08-28 0:19 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Poly <address@hidden>:
>> Thanks for the code you sent me in private Jacques, it's full of useful
>> examples but I still can't make this particular chord work.
>>
>> I want to display a minor chord with a fourth like this: "Am (add4)". That's
>> all I want to do.
>> First I'm surprised that I have to specify the chord (in the variable
>> chExceptionMusic) in a note to note format (in this case <a c e d>). Is it
>> not possible to specify it in a chord name format ?
>
> You would need to do it in \chordmode but there the "-"-sign has a
> different meaning,

One can use _ here I guess.  Unpretty, yes.

> not to mention that TextScript is not allowed in ChordNames for this
> (and probably other) reason(s).

\chords \with { \consists "Script_engraver" }
{
  c_\markup {C it is}
}

does not complain but does nothing I can see with the script.  Probably
just missing some crucial incantation...

-- 
David Kastrup