2017-02-26 12:12 GMT+01:00 Anthony Youngman <antli...@youngman.org.uk>: > On 26/02/17 10:52, Thomas Morley wrote:
>> If the chordNameFunction (ignatzek-chord-names) does not do what we >> want, we should improve it, but not drop a plethora of >> lily-functionality. >> >> And yes, ignatzek-chord-names is insufficient in the sense that it's >> hard up to impossible to tweak ChordName-printing sufficiently without >> rewriting major parts of it. >> > Just to throw another big spanner into the works ... > > I wrote some code which I submitted to lilypond to handle guitar capos. So, > for example, if you said something like "\capo 3", when you entered a chord > of C, it printed the chord name as "C(A)". This is *normal* practice when > printing music to accompany singers - the piano score has the guitar chords > on it. > > My code didn't get into lilypond proper (I was asked to make a load of > changes, and I couldn't cope - my scheme-fu wasn't up to it), BUT. You need > to be careful that any changes you make don't break that use case - even if > I didn't get it in, I'm sure somebody else will want it in future. > > Cheers, > Wol Do we have a tracker-issue for it? Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
