Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-19 Thread Luc Saffre
Oops, errata: an added 4th must be coded "c:5.4", not "c:add4". Luc On 19.03.2009 9:49, Luc Saffre wrote: > Thanks, Brett. > > To summarize for myself, and maybe some documentation maintainer wants > to integrate that somewhere: > > If I'm encoding chords from a previously published score, and

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-19 Thread Luc Saffre
Thanks, Brett. To summarize for myself, and maybe some documentation maintainer wants to integrate that somewhere: If I'm encoding chords from a previously published score, and there is a "C4", then (1) I try to find out what they really meant, and (2) depending on that: If they meant...

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-19 Thread Brett Duncan
Luc Saffre wrote: Can somebody explain what's the difference between printing "A^sus4" and "A^4"? I had only basic music education but am helping with publishing a songbook using Lilypond, and I thought that the difference is not important. But now I'm afraid I'm wrong and that I'll have to check

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-19 Thread David Stocker
Asus4 is a particular kind of chord where the "4" is held over from another harmony (like IV-I). A4 would seem to indicate an 'A' played with a perfect fourth above (in the way 'A5' is understood to mean 'A' played with a perfect fifth above. Luc Saffre wrote: On 15.03.2009 2:04, M Watts wro

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-18 Thread Luc Saffre
On 15.03.2009 2:04, M Watts wrote: > Miklos Vajna wrote: >> Now I want the same with A^4, so I type: >> >> \chords { >> a:4 >> } >> >> and I get: A^4/sus4/add3. >> >> Question: How do I get just an "A^4"? :) > > Just use a chord name exception -- it looks like a lot of setting up, > but it'

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/15 Valentin Villenave : > Frugalware has recently (a couple weeks ago, I think) gone 1.0, after > 5 years or so of development. Oops! My mistake: the 1.0 version is actually due next week. http://www.frugalware.org/roadmap (I was actually referring to the last RC, which I took for the fina

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/15 Helge Kruse : > sorry for being so foolish. But I would like to become a fan too. Honestly I > missed what vmiklos stands for. I dont want to ask this at the list if the > question is inappropriate. Who is vmiklos and what is FW? Quite an appropriate question, on the contrary... Behold:

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/15 Miklos Vajna : > I already used exceptions to display an arpeggio after a guitar chord, > and this one works perfectly as well. I just _can't_ _believe_ _this_. THE vmiklos himself, on our list! Just wanted to say I'm a big fan of yours. Congrats for the 1.0, and long live FW! Regards

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-15 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:04:59AM +1000, M Watts wrote: > Just use a chord name exception -- it looks like a lot of setting up, > but it's well worth it, and only needs to be done once. You can also > put this kind of thing in a separate file and \include it. Great! I already used exceptions

Re: a:4 chord

2009-03-14 Thread M Watts
Miklos Vajna wrote: Hi, First, sorry if this was already discussed, I did not found anything regarding this in the documentation. So I have the following block in my .ly file: \chords { a:7 } and this is properly rendered to something similar to "A^7". Now I want the same with A^4, s

a:4 chord

2009-03-14 Thread Miklos Vajna
Hi, First, sorry if this was already discussed, I did not found anything regarding this in the documentation. So I have the following block in my .ly file: \chords { a:7 } and this is properly rendered to something similar to "A^7". Now I want the same with A^4, so I type: \chords {