Re: 13th chord?

[Anthony Youngman]

On 26/02/17 11:32, Thomas Morley wrote:
> 2017-02-26 12:12 GMT+01:00 Anthony Youngman <address@hidden>:
> > On 26/02/17 10:52, Thomas Morley wrote:
>
> > > If the chordNameFunction (ignatzek-chord-names) does not do what we
> > > want, we should improve it, but not drop a plethora of
> > > lily-functionality.
> > >
> > > And yes, ignatzek-chord-names is insufficient in the sense that it's
> > > hard up to impossible to tweak ChordName-printing sufficiently without
> > > rewriting major parts of it.
> > Just to throw another big spanner into the works ...
> >
> > I wrote some code which I submitted to lilypond to handle guitar capos. So,
> > for example, if you said something like "\capo 3", when you entered a chord
> > of C, it printed the chord name as "C(A)". This is *normal* practice when
> > printing music to accompany singers - the piano score has the guitar chords
> > on it.
> >
> > My code didn't get into lilypond proper (I was asked to make a load of
> > changes, and I couldn't cope - my scheme-fu wasn't up to it), BUT. You need
> > to be careful that any changes you make don't break that use case - even if
> > I didn't get it in, I'm sure somebody else will want it in future.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Wol
>
> Do we have a tracker-issue for it?
I don't know. But I'm attaching the patches. I could dig in to it, but I 
suspect you just want the patches date-stamped 1st August (the others 
are probably draft versions).

I had it working on my system, so the code does run successfully, at 
least with the version of lilypond that was current at the time.

Cheers,
Wol

0001-Add-capo-handler-function-for-guitar-chords.patch
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0001-final-commit-I-hope.patch
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0001-Modify-chord-handling-to-handle-guitar-capos.patch
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0002-Add-capo-properties-to-define-context-properties.patch
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0002-Document-the-use-of-the-capoPitch-and-capoVertical-p.patch
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0003-Add-regression-test-for-guitar-capos.patch
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0003-Modify-chord-name-engraver-to-call-capo-handler.patch
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0004-Delete-chord-capo.patch
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0005-Add-regression-test-for-guitar-capos.patch
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