Thanks so much for taking a look!
> On Aug 19, 2016, at 6:02 PM, Malte Meyn <lilyp...@maltemeyn.de> wrote:
>
>
>
> Am 19.08.2016 um 23:32 schrieb Andy Deitrich:
>> It put the mandolin chords on a new, 3rd staff. It probably has something
>> to do with defining "mando" as a staff. I don't know how else to get the
>> mandolin chords to appear above the staff.
>>
>> Does this help explain?
>
> Your code is far from minimal (and not working because guitarMusic isn’t
> defined and some curly braces are missing) but I was able to find your
> problem in this smaller (but also not minimal) example:
>
> %%%%%%%% BEGIN EXAMPLE
> \version "2.19.46"
>
> mandoMusic = \relative c' {
> \new Staff = "mando"
> \time 6/8
> R2.
> \override NoteHead #'style = #'slash
> \repeat percent 6 {
> <<
> \chords \with {
> alignAboveContext = "mando"
> } { s4 c8 s4. }
> { r4\mp b'8 r4 b8 }
> >>
> }
> }
>
>
> \score {
> \new StaffGroup <<
> \new Staff {
> \mandoMusic
> }
> >>
> }
> %%%%%%%% END EXAMPLE
>
> You define a (new) Staff which contains mandoMusic which contains a (new)
> Staff called “mando” which contains the \time 6/8 and nothing else. Inside of
> the (outer/upper) Staff a new ChordNames context is created that is aligned
> above the other (lower) Staff. So there’s just one unnecessary Staff.
>
> Two possible solutions:
> 1. create only the outer staff, call it “mando”, and align the chords above
> this staff:
>
> %%%%%%%% BEGIN FIRST SOLUTION
> \version "2.19.46"
>
> mandoMusic = \relative c' {
> \time 6/8
> R2.
> \override NoteHead #'style = #'slash
> \repeat percent 6 {
> <<
> \chords \with {
> alignAboveContext = "mando"
> } { s4 c8 s4. }
> { r4\mp b'8 r4 b8 }
> >>
> }
> }
>
> \score {
> \new StaffGroup <<
> \new Staff = "mando" \mandoMusic
> >>
> }
> %%%%%%%% END FIRST SOLUTION
>
> 2. separate ChordNames and Staff from each other; you won’t have any
> alignment issues:
>
> %%%%%%%% BEGIN SECOND SOLUTION
> \version "2.19.46"
>
> mandoMusic = \relative c' {
> \time 6/8
> R2.
> \override NoteHead #'style = #'slash
> \repeat percent 6 {
> r4\mp b'8 r4 b8
> }
> }
>
> chordMusic = \chordmode {
> s2.
> s4 c8 s4.
> }
>
> \score {
> \new StaffGroup <<
> \new ChordNames \chordMusic
> \new Staff \mandoMusic
> >>
> }
> %%%%%%%% END SECOND SOLUTION
>
> HTH
> Malte
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