Re: Lead sheet capo chords in brackets

[Knute Snortum]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 9:04 AM Colin Baguley <colin@baguley.net> wrote:

Hi,

When writing a simple song lead sheet i have the chord(name) above the normal melody line.

Some guitarists like to use a capo and so I place a transposed chord(name) below the main one.

To do this I used a function called "parenthesizeAllchords" which I freely admit I plagarized from somewhere and don't exactly understand how it works - but it did work at one time.

Each Capo chord had a bracket around it eg  (C)  (D7)  (Em) etc

However, I've not used it for a few years and tried recently and it no longer works ( or I've corrupted the code somewhere along the line)

Please could somebody cast an eye over this and see where I am going wrong?

It may be that you got a control code or something in the offending line because all I did was retype it.

%============================================================
guitarchords = \chordmode {
  \override ChordName.font-size = #3
  \override Parentheses.font-size = #2 % I retyped this line
\override ChordName.style = #'american
\basicchords  }
capochords = \chordmode {
  \override ChordName.font-size = #-3
\override Parentheses.font-size = #2
\override ChordName.style = #'american
\parenthesizeAllchords
\basicchords
}
%============================================================

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Knute Snortum