My first post with the same subject was accidental, having only typed about half of what I had to say. Anyway, here's all of it...
After much thrashing about using version 1.6.6, I was finally able to figure out how to get chord names the way I like them. There were two things that bugged me -- 1) the chord name size, 2) offset which raises the location of the bass note in the chord name (when present). The solution to the chord name size is to set the font-magnification property for chord names (as mentioned in other posts, font-size-relative doesn't work). \context ChordNames = c { % Scale down the size of the chord names by .75 \property ChordNames.ChordName \set #'font-magnification = #0.75 % Prevent chord names from getting too close together, % even when reduced in size. \property ChordNames.ChordName \override #'word-space = #2 \property ChordNames.ChordName \override #'style = #'american \chords { e2 e4/+cis b4/+dis e2 e4/+cis b4/+dis } } My solution to the bass note offset "problem" was to modify chord-names.scm in the /usr/share/lilypond/1.6.6/scm. Here's the patch... --- chord-name.scm 2003/03/17 22:07:32 1.1 +++ chord-name.scm 2003/03/19 01:25:12 @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ (text-append tonic-text except-text sep-text ;;(list (list simple-super) adds-text subs-text) - (list (list '((raise . 1) (font-relative-size . -1))) adds-text subs-text) + (list (list '((raise . 0) (font-relative-size . -1))) adds-text subs-text) b+i-text))) (define (c++-pitch->scm p) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user