Re: Strange behaviour of Chord Staff

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2022-12-10 at 12:07 +0000, Joe wrote:
> Thanks
>  Good luck!

I've fixed the problem now. It will be built overnight for Windows.
Thankyou for reporting this.

Richard



> 
> Joe
> 
> On 10 Dec 2022 11:09, Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 20:17 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
> > >  Sorry, Richard. A very bad explanation. I'll try again.
> > 
> > Excellent explanation, thanks! I'm afraid it would seem that I've
> > caused this by a development in the code - it generates valid code
> > on
> > denemo version 2.5.0, so you can workaround it by using that.
> > 
> > I'll investigate what has caused the "\new ChordStaff" bit of
> > LilyPond
> > syntax to move to the wrong place. At the moment it means mirrored
> > staff is incompatible with Chord Staff :(
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > >  
> > >  EbBb44.denemo is a Custom Template I have created to make it
> > > easy to
> > > produce parallel tunes for C, Eb and Bb instruments.
> > >  Staff 1 should be a Chord Symbols staff that I populate with
> > > Chords,
> > > e.g. CEG to produce the Chord Name C. The base note is sufficient
> > > for
> > > major chords, obviously.
> > >  Staff 2 is the tune in C
> > >  Staff 3 is usually a copy of 2 which is not printed, but used by
> > > the
> > > Eb lines. I edit the tune to move notes below Eb to higher
> > > harmony or
> > > octave notes.
> > >  Staff 4 is a Mirror of 3 which is printed transposed 3 semitones
> > > lower, so Eb on staff 2 appears as C for the AltoSax player.
> > >  Staff 5 is a Mirror of 3, but also a chord staff, which should
> > > produce the note names below the Eb AltoSax music
> > >  Staff 6 is a Mirror of 2, printed transposed 2 semitones up so
> > > Bb
> > > instrument notes are at Concert Pitch, Bb becoming C,
> > >  Staff 7 is a Mirror of 2, but also a chord staff, producing note
> > > names below the Bb Clarinet staff    
> > >  
> > >  I have created a file: testTemplateEbBb44.denemo with a scale of
> > > G
> > > in Staff 2, and copied that into staff 3
> > >  I have not added any notes to Staff 1 so no chords should appear
> > > above the music.
> > >  I would expect to see 3 Staves with the scale of G, the top in
> > > G,
> > > the second in E, and the third in A.
> > >  The lower staves should have the matching note names below the
> > > staff.
> > >  
> > >  I should get something like: (extract from a different one of
> > > 200
> > > different tunes) 
> > >  without the Chord names above the top staff (in this case
> > > created
> > > from triads I had put into Staff 1).
> > >  
> > >  Instead, with no notes in Staff 1, I get:
> > >  
> > >  where as far as I can tell the chords above Original  have been
> > > created from the two notes in EbSax and Clarinet
> > >  
> > >  Something has gone wrong; perhaps you can now understand and
> > > have
> > > some idea as to what?
> > >  Best wishes
> > >  Joe
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> > 
> > 
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