Re: Creating a 1-channel MIDI file?

[Wilbert Berendsen]

Op dinsdag 07 september 2010 schreef Erik:

> When I use lilypond to create a MIDI file, it seems to create a 2-channel
> file.  Am I understanding this correctly? Can I get a 1-channel file?
> Any help would be greatly appreciate,

I think, by default LilyPond creates a MIDI channel for each staff.

If you move the Staff_performer to the Voice context, it creates a MIDI 
channel for every voice.

So maybe, if you move the Staff_performer to an encompassing group, it puts 
all the MIDI events in one channel?

Or alternatively, you could create a separate \score { } block for the MIDI 
output and put all voices in one \new Staff << >> construct?

Did not test this, though.


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information about lilymidi

[Stefan Thomas]

Dear community,
I would like to know, what can be done with the program lilymidi.
The manpage says nearly nothing and I also didn't find some
information on Lilypond
program 
usage.
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Details of incremental "z" changes to Lilypond

[Reg Ludions]

Hello list

is there a way to see the changes to Lilypond with each incremental development 
version (the "z"s in version "x.y.z"), as against the changes between "y" 
versions? I can't seem to locate this in the various versions of the docs - are 
details only (presumably) to be found in a change log in the full source code 
change log?

Regards

Tom
 



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Creating metronome staff?

[Bajnok Kristóf]

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to create metronome beats to a melody which has 
variable times (4/4, 6/8, etc). Is there a function to make it 
automatically? 

Thanks,
Kristof

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tabulatures and stems

[bart deruyter]

Hi,

I have recently started using lilypond, but there are some things that don't
seem ok. Following the documentation I started writing a tabulature for
guitar. The documentation shows the fret numbers and stems, but when I copy
and paste the code in frescobaldi, the generated output does not show stems.

The problem was first the svg export. In order to get correct svg's (I need
them for editing them for graphical elements in a book I'm writing), I
installed version 2.13.32. Seeing examples on the lilypond site about the
differences between 2.12 and 2.13 versions, I see that there are no stems on
the 2.13 examples either. How do I add them anyway? Is this feature broken,
or do I add some extra code to add stems to the tabulature, and if so, which
code? If it is broken, which version do I need to install to get correct svg
output and stems in the tabulature?

greets,
Bart

http://www.bartart3d.be/
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Re: tabulatures and stems

[Patrick Schmidt]

You have to add the command

\tabFullNotation

to make the stems visible.

HTH
patrick
Am 08.09.2010 um 12:40 schrieb bart deruyter:


Hi,

I have recently started using lilypond, but there are some things  
that don't seem ok. Following the documentation I started writing a  
tabulature for guitar. The documentation shows the fret numbers and  
stems, but when I copy and paste the code in frescobaldi, the  
generated output does not show stems.


The problem was first the svg export. In order to get correct svg's  
(I need them for editing them for graphical elements in a book I'm  
writing), I installed version 2.13.32. Seeing examples on the  
lilypond site about the differences between 2.12 and 2.13 versions,  
I see that there are no stems on the 2.13 examples either. How do I  
add them anyway? Is this feature broken, or do I add some extra  
code to add stems to the tabulature, and if so, which code? If it  
is broken, which version do I need to install to get correct svg  
output and stems in the tabulature?


greets,
Bart

http://www.bartart3d.be/
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Re: Details of incremental "z" changes to Lilypond

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:37:58AM +0100, Reg Ludions wrote:
> 
> is there a way to see the changes to Lilypond with each incremental 
> development version (the "z"s in version "x.y.z"), as against the changes 
> between "y" versions? I can't seem to locate this in the various versions of 
> the docs - are details only (presumably) to be found in a change log in the 
> full source code change log?

Some changes are listed in the Changes manual:
http://lilypond.org/website/changes.html

However, it is somewhat out of date.  The idea of summarized
changes between development versions has come up a few times
before, but no user has stepped forward to volunteer to create
such material.  (before that, though, I'd like a user to volunteer
to add material to the Changes manual, so that at least people can
see what's different between 2.12 and 2.14 !)

For the record, I would be happy to include this information in my
release announcements, but I will not write it myself.

Cheers,
- Graham

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Re: Details of incremental "z" changes to Lilypond

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:08:06PM +0100, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:37:58AM +0100, Reg Ludions wrote:
> > 
> > is there a way to see the changes to Lilypond with each incremental 
> > development version (the "z"s in version "x.y.z"), as against the changes 
> > between "y" versions? I can't seem to locate this in the various versions 
> > of the docs - are details only (presumably) to be found in a change log in 
> > the full source code change log?
> 
> Some changes are listed in the Changes manual:
> http://lilypond.org/website/changes.html

Sorry, the 2.13 changes are on the development page:
http://lilypond.org/website/development.html
or go directly here:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/changes/index.html

That's much more up-to-date than the 2.12 version.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham

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Selecting a font for the whole score

[Graham Okely]

I would like to make the whole score use a certain font.
Guitar chord names, lyrics and any other markup.

How do you do that?
Feel free to provide the link to the manual if it is there.
I am using 2.12.3 version.

Thanks

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Re: Selecting a font for the whole score

[Brett McCoy]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Graham Okely  wrote:
>
> I would like to make the whole score use a certain font.
> Guitar chord names, lyrics and any other markup.
>
> How do you do that?
> Feel free to provide the link to the manual if it is there.
> I am using 2.12.3 version.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Fonts#Entire-document-fonts

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Centered Rests (= in the middle of the staff) in a multi-voice staff, without using \rest

[Ferran Auban]

Hello Lilypoind community!

When you typeset a one-voice-staff, the rests are usually placed in the
middle of it.
However, if there two voices, some will be printed on the top of it and
others on the bottom, even if the other voice is inactive (with invisible
rests).

Is there any way to put all the rests in the center of the staff without
manually ubicating them with \rest?

Thank you!
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Beaming grace notes across staves

[Ferran Auban]

Hello!
I have got an extrange problem. I had typesetted some works with groups of
grace notes that begun in a staff and ended in another, and I had no
problems. 

However, if I apply the same methods to a group of (beamed) grace notes that
has the only first note on one staff an the rest in another, it does not
work.

Here is what I would like to do:

\change Staff="inf" \grace  { 16  \stemDown \change Staff="sup" [e16
g16 b16 e16]  }

It does not work.

However, if I put the staff change one note later, it works:

\change Staff="inf" \grace  { 16  [e16 \stemDown \change Staff="sup"
g16 b16 e16]  }

It also works if I do not beam the first note:

\change Staff="inf" \grace  { 16  \stemDown \change Staff="sup" e16
[g16 b16 e16]  }


Could you tell me where is the problem?

Thank you very much
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Re: Centered Rests (= in the middle of the staff) in a multi-voice staff, without using \rest

[-Eluze]

Ferran Auban wrote:
> 
> Hello Lilypoind community!
> 
> When you typeset a one-voice-staff, the rests are usually placed in the
> middle of it.
> However, if there two voices, some will be printed on the top of it and
> others on the bottom, even if the other voice is inactive (with invisible
> rests).
> 
> Is there any way to put all the rests in the center of the staff without
> manually ubicating them with \rest?
> 
> Thank you!
> 

there is   \override Voice.Rest #'staff-position = #0


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Re: Centered Rests (= in the middle of the staff) in a multi-voicestaff, without using \rest

[Phil Holmes]

- Original Message - 
From: "-Eluze" 

To: 
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Centered Rests (= in the middle of the staff) in a 
multi-voicestaff, without using \rest







Ferran Auban wrote:


Hello Lilypoind community!

When you typeset a one-voice-staff, the rests are usually placed in the
middle of it.
However, if there two voices, some will be printed on the top of it and
others on the bottom, even if the other voice is inactive (with invisible
rests).

Is there any way to put all the rests in the center of the staff without
manually ubicating them with \rest?

Thank you!



there is   \override Voice.Rest #'staff-position = #0


Alternatively you could explicitly name the voices using \voiceOne & 
\voiceTwo where there are 2 active voices and then \oneVoice where there is 
only one.


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Re: Centered Rests (= in the middle of the staff) in a multi-voice staff, without using \rest

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Mittwoch, 8. September 2010, 15:46:23 schrieb Ferran Auban:
> Hello Lilypoind community!
> 
> When you typeset a one-voice-staff, the rests are usually placed in the
> middle of it.
> However, if there two voices, some will be printed on the top of it and
> others on the bottom, even if the other voice is inactive (with invisible
> rests).

If the passage is longer, I typically use \oneVoice to reset all UP/DOWN 
directions to their default (i.e. stems will alsow go down), and then switch 
back to \voiceOne when needed.
If that's not what you want, then you can always override the rest position 
manually as Eluze wrote.
On the other hand, if it's just very short (no full-measure rests), I don't 
use invisible rests at all, but rather use automatic rest combining. See the 
LSR:
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=336

Cheers,
Reinhold

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Re: NR 2.1 Vocal music

[James Bailey]

So, I was reading through the changes to vocal music, and I had an epiphany. 
The current solution for lyrics independent of notes is predicated on the idea 
that the lyrics should be attached to some voice. Since \lyricmode just tells 
lilypond that the entry will be text rather than notes, why not simply use that 
instead of the DevNull context, and explicitly state the rhtyhms for the 
lyrics. The rhythms are entered anyway because of the lyricrhythm tag, so the 
user will have to enter rhythms at some point. I think it makes for a much more 
elegant solution. Consider:

voice = {
  c''2 c''
  d''1
}

lyr = \lyricmode { I4 like2 my cat!2. }

<<
  \new Staff \voice
  \new Lyrics \lyr
  \new Staff { c'8 c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' }
>>

It has the disadvantage of having to explicitly enter the rhtyhm for all of the 
lyrics, not just the tagged part, but it eliminates the need for the DevNull 
context. Bad idea? Good idea?
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Re: NR 2.1 Vocal music

[James Bailey]

So, I was reading through the changes to vocal music, and I had an epiphany. 
The current solution for lyrics independent of notes is predicated on the idea 
that the lyrics should be attached to some voice. Since \lyricmode just tells 
lilypond that the entry will be text rather than notes, why not simply use that 
instead of the DevNull context, and explicitly state the rhtyhms for the 
lyrics. The rhythms are entered anyway because of the lyricrhythm tag, so the 
user will have to enter rhythms at some point. I think it makes for a much more 
elegant solution. Consider:

voice = {
 c''2 c''
 d''1
}

lyr = \lyricmode { I4 like2 my cat!2. }

 <<
 \new Staff \voice
 \new Lyrics \lyr
 \new Staff { c'8 c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' }
 >>

It has the disadvantage of having to explicitly enter the rhtyhm for all of the 
lyrics, not just the tagged part, but it eliminates the need for the DevNull 
context. Bad idea? Good idea?
One other disadvantage, it also has the lyrics left-aligned, rather than center 
aligned. But since they are being placed independent of note-heads, that's 
likely to not be very visible.
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Re: FullCadenzaRest?

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2010-09-08 19:44, Xavier Scheuer wrote:

On 8 September 2010 18:51, Alexander Kobel  wrote:

Hi, all,

is there a proper way to have a "FullCadenzaRest" during a cadenza?
[...]  It'd be really nice to have an equivalent to "R" for a full
cadenza (or part thereof between two bar lines).


Hi!

Why not use a separate variable for cadenza and
   #(ly:export (mmrest-of-length MyCadenza))

as it is suggested in the doc NR 1.2.6 Special rhythmic concerns>
Aligning to cadenzas
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns.html#aligning-to-cadenzas
?


Okay, this spares the manual counting of the length of the notes.  But 
note that this is NOT a cadenza in the sense of \cadenzaOn / 
\cadenzaOff, since it amounts to _metered_ music, while \cadenzaOn 
introduces an _unmetered_ section.  Thus, the approach suggested is just 
a clever way of doing my example 3, isn't it?



Cheers,
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Re: FullCadenzaRest?

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 8 September 2010 18:51, Alexander Kobel  wrote:
>
> [cross-posted to the bug- list for example 1]
>
> Hi, all,
>
>
> is there a proper way to have a "FullCadenzaRest" during a cadenza?
> This follows up my post here
> ,
> which did not yield any response so far; so I decided to put together a
> (longish) snippet showing the issue.  Sorry about the extent, but I wanted
> to show both the issue and the two workarounds I know, and show their
> problems...  It'd be really nice to have an equivalent to "R" for a full
> cadenza (or part thereof between two bar lines).

Hi!

Why not use a separate variable for cadenza and
  #(ly:export (mmrest-of-length MyCadenza))

as it is suggested in the doc NR 1.2.6 Special rhythmic concerns >
Aligning to cadenzas
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns.html#aligning-to-cadenzas
?

Cheers,
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Re: Help with JEdit/LilyPondTool user problem

[Seth Williamson]

I tried that, but the directory is called LilyPond 2.app, not LilyPond.app.

In any case, when I make that small substitution, it still says no such file
or directory.  The MacBook seems to want to force it to look in my user
director, not on the rest of the hard drive.  The full path is this:

I am just about ready to give up.  I think it may be a Mac thing.  But this
is too much effort to waste on something that should be so simple.  Under
JEdit/PlugIns/PlugIn Options, I put the whole specific path:

/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications/LilyPond 2.app/Contents/Resources/bin/

You'd think that would be specific enough.  But JEdit seems to want to make
JEdit look for LilyPond in my user directory, where it's NOT.  When I try to
drill down to where it actually lives by using the "..." icon at the end of
the path space, when I get to the LilyPond 2.app directory, it's grayed-out
and I can't choose it.  I have no idea what this means, but I'm just about
ready to give up.

If you have any more ideas, I'd appreciate hearing them.  It really seems
dumb that I can't even get the program to start from within LilyPondTool.

Seth Williamson



On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Patrick Schmidt  wrote:

> Hi Seth,
>
> just cut an paste the following line into "Path to LilyPond binary":
>
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/
>
> This should solve your problem.
>
> HTH,
> patrick
> Am 07.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Seth Williamson:
>
> I got the following reply from the other list.  But I'm still getting
> errors.  Can anybody on this list tell me what the problem is?
>
> Seth Williamson
>
>
> I am still getting errors.  I cut and pasted your line into "Path to
> LilyPond binary":
>
> Error running external command
> See the activity log about the problem
> Cannot run program "/Applications/LilyPond\
> 2.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond" (in directory "/Applications"):
> error=2, No such file or directory
>
> Under Plugin Options, I have this as the "Path to LilyPond binary":
>
> /Applications/LilyPond\ 2.app/Contents/Resources/bin
>
> Under LilyPond command I have:
>
> lilypond
>
> Can you explain to me what's wrong about this and why I can't get the
> program started?
>
> Seth Williamson
> - Hide quoted text -
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Valentin Villenave 
>  wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Seth Williamson 
>> wrote:
>> > So far as I can tell, I've got LilyPond 2.app installed under
>> Applications.
>> >  I can see it there with Finder.
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> it should look like
>>
>> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/
>>
>> Or, if your app's name contains spaces, you have to escape them:
>>
>> /Applications/LilyPond\ 2.app/Contents/Resources/bin/
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Valentin
>>
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multiple pitchnames in a song?

[ananth p]

Is it possible to use multiple 'pitchnames' in a song (perhaps under
different score segments)? something like

% option 1: Include Files
\include "arabic.ly"
\include "english.ly"

...score1:  some Arabic music here..

... score2: some English music ..


%option 2: inline pitch names definiton
kalyani_ragam= ... pitch definitions for Kalyani Ragam...

\override pitchnames = kalyani_ragam
score 3: Some Indian music, with Kalyani Ragam


-
I'm working on some Raga music- songs with multiple ragas in a same page.  I
can create a pitchnames definition file for each raga. The problem is,
lilypond won't accept more than one of such files in the \include. My
attempts to override pitchname definitions inline failed too (tried long
time ago. I don't remember the exact lines I wrote).

Thanks for any help,

Ananth
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LilyPondTool users on Mac?

[Seth Williamson]

Is there anybody on this list who uses LilyPondTool on a MacBook?

Please get back with me -- feel free to reply offlist.


Seth Williamson
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Re: multiple pitchnames in a song?

[Wilbert Berendsen]

And if you do this?

\include "arabic.ly"
...score1:  some Arabic music here..

\include "english.ly"
... score2: some English music ..

best regards,
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Re: Centered Rests (= in the middle of the staff) in a multi-voice staff, without using \rest

[Wilbert Berendsen]

Op woensdag 08 september 2010 schreef Ferran:

> Is there any way to put all the rests in the center of the staff without
> manually ubicating them with \rest?

There is a script available in LSR 336 which autocombines simultaneous rests:
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=336

And there is also a script created by me based on LSR 336 which also 
autocombines MultiMeasureRests:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1228

An updated file is here:
http://code.google.com/p/lilymusic/source/browse/trunk/include/merge-rests.ily
(click "View raw file" to download it)

Then:

\include "merge-rests.ily"

more info is in the file.

best regards,
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Re: multiple pitchnames in a song?

[ananth p]

Works like a charm! Thank you.

Thanks for the wonderful IDE too :)


On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Wilbert Berendsen  wrote:

>
>
> And if you do this?
>
> \include "arabic.ly"
> ...score1:  some Arabic music here..
>
> \include "english.ly"
> ... score2: some English music ..
>
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> Wilbert Berendsen
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Re: NR 2.1 Vocal music

[Trevor Daniels]

James Bailey wrote Wednesday, September 08, 2010 5:34 PM


The current solution for lyrics independent of 
notes is predicated on the idea that the lyrics 
should be attached to some voice. Since \lyricmode

just tells lilypond that the entry will be text
rather than notes, why not simply use that instead
of the DevNull context, and explicitly state the
rhtyhms for the lyrics. The rhythms are entered
anyway because of the lyricrhythm tag, so the
user will have to enter rhythms at some point.
I think it makes for a much more elegant solution.
Consider:

voice = {
  c''2 c''
  d''1
}

lyr = \lyricmode { I4 like2 my cat!2. }

<<
  \new Staff \voice
  \new Lyrics \lyr
  \new Staff { c'8 c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' }
>>

It has the disadvantage of having to explicitly enter 
the rhtyhm for all of the lyrics, not just the tagged

part, but it eliminates the need for the DevNull context.
Bad idea? Good idea?


We certainly need an example in this section which shows
durations attached to lyric syllables, but I think we need
to keep the Devnull example too, as this is useful if only
a few syllables have to have a different rhythm, as might
occur, for example, in just one bar of one stanza.  BTW,
durations on lyric syllables is briefly mentioned in 
"Automatic syllable durations" in 2.1.1.


Would you like to generate another example along the lines
you suggest with some text for inclusion either here or in
"Dialogue over music" in "Opera and stage musicals"?  This 
technique would be suited to dialogue which is not in strict

rhythm but which needs to be keyed into music at certain
points, usually when a sentence starts.  It might need a
bit of research to work out the best way to generate 
alignments.  Hint: try quotes :)


Trevor



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Re: LilyPondTool users on Mac?

[Nathan Bibb]

I use Lilypond on my Mac Book Pro, but I typically use the command line to get 
things done.  What specific questions do you have regarding using Lilypond on a 
Mac?

Nathan Bibb

- Original message -
> Is there anybody on this list who uses LilyPondTool on a MacBook?
> 
> Please get back with me -- feel free to reply offlist.
> 
> 
> Seth Williamson

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Instrument names run off left margin

[Nathan]

 Without overriding anything, the output of the code below has the 
instrument names running off of the left margin. Is this a bug? a 
problem with my computer? because am I supposed to use a particular 
setting? the expected behavior?


\version "2.12.3"
\paper{ ragged-right=##t }
\new StaffGroup <<
\new Staff{
\set Staff.instrumentName = #"Violin 1" \set 
Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"Vln. 1"

R1*30
}
\new Staff{
\set Staff.instrumentName = #"Violin 2" \set 
Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"Vln. 2"

R1*30
}
>>

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Re: LilyPondTool users on Mac?

[Marc Schonbrun]

On Sep 8, 2010, at 8:03 PM, Nathan Bibb wrote:

> I use Lilypond on my Mac Book Pro, but I typically use the command line to 
> get things done. What specific questions do you have regarding using Lilypond 
> on a Mac? 
> 
> Nathan Bibb 
> 
> - Original message - 
> > Is there anybody on this list who uses LilyPondTool on a MacBook? 
> > 
> > Please get back with me -- feel free to reply offlist. 
> > 
> > 
> > Seth Williamson 
> 
> 

He is inquiring about LilyPondTool for jEdit, not LilyPond. I don't have any 
experience, but wanted to clarify the question asked. 


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Chord Names Between Piano Staff Treble and Bass Clefs

[keith Luke]

I have:

Melody = \new PianoStaff

<<
 \new Staff { \clef treble  ...right hand notes...}

 \new Staff { \clef bass ...left hand notes...}
>>

harmonies = { \chordmode { ...chord names...}

\score {
<<
\new ChordNames {\harmonies}
\Melody
>>

I can place the chord names above the treble clef, but would like to place
them between the clefs.

How do I put chord names between the treble and bass clef parts in \new
Piano Staff instead above the treble clef part?

Thanks,

Keith
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