Re: Chords in LilyPond

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Matthew,

> On Fri, 26 May 2017, Simon Albrecht wrote:
>> Well, input syntax does not equal desired output.
> For ordinary users, it does.

You do know that you’re not *forced* to use ChordNames, right?
(Of course, I realize we’re currently talking about improving that part of 
Lilypond, and hence this thread… but I’m offering this suggestion external to 
that initiative.)

If you want to type something and simply have it appear as you typed it (i.e., 
with no use or need for manipulations like transposition), why not just use 
Lyrics? It already does exactly what you want, e.g.

   C2 “/E”4 “/G”

outputs

   C     /E  /G

lined up with the rhythms you enter. And it wouldn’t take much to write a 
custom context and/or a callback which would do any desired rewriting of 
superscripts, etc. In other words, Lilypond has offered the ability to match 
chordname input syntax with output display since at least 2003.

That being said, *I* have never (and would never) use it, because I always want 
the ability to transpose, etc. But if you’re just looking for a method to 
implement your \chordtext {} suggestion, a Lyrics context kind of already does 
that.

Just a thought, in case it helps.

Cheers,
Kieren.
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