I guess that you don't want any new type of contexts, you just want
to redefine the existing ChordNames context type. Then, simply do
\layout {
\context
{
\ChordNames
\override BarLine #'bar-size = #4
voltaOnThisStaff = ##t
Version 2.6.3
I tried section 9.1.5, and I have tried about 30 variations of something similar to what they have in that section with no luck...
Here is one unsuccessful try... it must be that I am really missing some main concept of Lilypond?
\layout {
\context
{
You cannot define a macro (or identifier or whatever you want to
call it) that does not contain a complete expression. Since the syntax
for \new is something like
\new \with
it means that you have to include also the music itself in the
\blankchords in order to get a correct syntax.
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