> On May 10, 2014, at 9:11 AM, rif <r...@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Apparently I can get just say f:7.9- to get an F7b9. Hooray! Still
> wondering if there's a canonical place for pop-chords.
>
>
>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:06 AM, rif <r...@mit.edu> wrote:
>> I see many references to this on the mailing list, but are these files
>> anywhere standard? I grabbed an old jazz-chords.ly from some mailing list
>> message, but then it didn't work when I included it, and it had no version
>> number so I couldn't figure out how to convert it.
>>
>> What I actually want to do: single line melodies with chord symbols. I'm
>> using the "Simple lead sheet" from
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/chords as an example,
>> but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do things like get an F7b9
>> symbol in there. Most of the "chords" examples I find lying around seem to
>> be built around the idea that you want to show a bunch of pitches of a chord
>> and then get the name automatically? What am I missing?
The Lilypond Snippet Repository (a.k.a LSR) is a very helpful place to look for
this sort of thing. I don't have the URL handy on my iPad but the name ought
to be enough to help you find it via a web search.
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