Re: slash to indicate repeated chord?

[Robin Bannister]

Joseph Austin wrote:

> When placing chord names on a lead-sheet, sometimes a slash ( /  ) is used on 
> subsequent measures or beats to indicate repeating the previous chord.  How can 
> this be done in lilypond?


Well there was a suggestion in 2012
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-02/msg00417.html
I don't know if anything came of this.


But basically you arrange for chordnames where you want the slashes
and then override these chordnames with
\once \override ChordNames.ChordName.text = "/"

And instead of just "/" you can use a more convincing markup:
draw a diagonal line, or go the whole hog like
http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=908


Cheers,
Robin