Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

Hi, I wonder how I had to build a "normal" font (otf, ttf, whatever) to work as chord-symbols-font only. Spacing and style is very important to make chord symbols readable. I haven't seen one yet for lilypond. Goal is to have a font rendering chord symbols like in the real books (handwritten or no

How to set up a Jazz-Chord-Symbol-Font (not notation-font)

Hi, I wonder how I had to build a "normal" font (otf, ttf, whatever) to work as chord-symbols-font only. Spacing and style is very important to make chord symbols readable. I haven't seen one yet for lilypond. Goal is to have a font rendering chord symbols like in the real books (handwritten or no

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

Hi Marco, > Spacing and style is very important to make chord symbols readable. I haven't > seen one yet for lilypond. How does not do what you want? Thanks, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, com

RE: Aesthetics question -- how would you typeset this?

Evan, As to your “bonus” question, <<{….}//{….}>> creates two separate voices, as in polyphony, While <..> creates a chord. Mark From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Evan Driscoll Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2019 8:54 PM To: Lilypon

Re: Aesthetics question -- how would you typeset this?

The difference between << {...} // {...} >> and chords I get -- but what about << {...} {...} >> *without* the //, for example in the first three lines of my snippet? Those seem to work the same as collating the corresponding notes in chords. Evan On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:48 AM Mark Stephen Mr

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

> > - Forwarded message -- > From: Marco Baumgartner > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 14:27:27 +0200 > Subject: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font) > Hi, > > I wonder how I had to build a "normal" font (otf, ttf, whatever) to work > as chord-symb

RE: Aesthetics question -- how would you typeset this?

Evan, Never used <<{ } { }>>. Tried to locate it in the manual – no success. Your question must be answered by someone with more knowledge of the code than I. Mark From: Evan Driscoll [mailto:eva...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2019 10:01 AM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek Cc: Li

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

Thank you, Elaine. I'm on the road, but I'll gladly check it out later! One thought though: As far as I understand it: displaying chords within Lilypond is not done with/by a "normal" font but rather a special chord-mechanism. I fear, that this mechanism (as far I've seen) does a good job, but can

Re: Aesthetics question -- how would you typeset this?

Evan Driscoll writes: > The difference between << {...} // {...} >> and chords I get -- but what > about << {...} {...} >> *without* the //, for example in the first three > lines of my snippet? Those seem to work the same as collating the > corresponding notes in chords. They are pretty much e

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

On 2019-07-03 10:40 am, Marco Baumgartner wrote: One thought though: As far as I understand it: displaying chords within Lilypond is not done with/by a "normal" font but rather a special chord-mechanism. I fear, that this mechanism (as far I've seen) does a good job, but can also be seen as a li

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

I can't make your chord exceptions work... Is it because I'm running a 2.18.2 version? When I look at your code I see a lot of "shifting things around". Is that what you do? You take the given symbols (in chord-mode) and shift/replace/zoom them around until they look right for you? That's not what

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

Thanks. I just figured out how to use my own otf font. You're saying, that once I have my font finished, I can use it as \markup OR as ChordName? But wouldn't ChordName mess with my font then? Like forcing its own spacing and such? Or lies that within the used font in ChordName? So, if I use my o

Chord names starting right after the anacrusis

Hi everyone, I want to write a song in which the melody begins in upbeat (anacrusis) and the chords begins on the next bar. I have tried a lot but i can't make the chord names appear after the anacrustic bar. Can you help me? P.s. Sorry for my english. Regards, Vicente Sanches _

Re: Chord names starting right after the anacrusis

On 2019-07-03 4:03 pm, Vicente Sanches wrote: Hi everyone, I want to write a song in which the melody begins in upbeat (anacrusis) and the chords begins on the next bar. I have tried a lot but i can't make the chord names appear after the anacrustic bar. It often helps to provide an example

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

On 2019-07-03 3:12 pm, Marco Baumgartner wrote: You're saying, that once I have my font finished, I can use it as \markup OR as ChordName? Technically, you are always generating a ChordName grob if you are using a ChordNames context, but you can easily override the text property of any indiv

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

On 2019-07-03 4:45 pm, Aaron Hill wrote: NOTE: Similar things will be adjusted to support the slash separator as well, so that you could get a single string like "C#m/E" so your font's logic could handle this. I typed that poorly. Trying again: NOTE: Similar things will need to be adjusted to

Re: percent repeats (bug?)

In a post/email sent out several months ago, Randy brought up some issues about percent repeats over more than two measures. He cited two issues, related to where the percent sign is placed and what it looks like. I would like to add a third: line breaks aren't allowed in the middle of a \repeat p