Re: Problem with alignment of Chord Symbols over notes.

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 11:19 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Can anyone spot the error in this:
> > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
> > \version "2.19.25"
> >
> > \score {
> >           <<
> >              \new ChordNames \chordmode {  e4 s4 f:/g8 s8 s4 
> >                                            d8:m s8 s8 s8 s8 s8 s8 s8  }
> >              \new Staff {
> >                          d'4 d' b8 d' f4
> >                          a'8 g' a' g' a' g' a' g' }
> >           >>
> >        } 
> > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
> > run under Frescobaldi (which says version 2.18.2) it gives
> > warning: Spurious garbage following chord: (#<Pitch c'' >)
> > and the Dm chord symbol is shifted to the right - without the /g the
> > positioning is correct.
> 
> You probably mean f8:/g instead of f:/g8 here.  The error message is
> awful, though.
> 

Thank you! I see that the page
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/chord-mode
I was looking at was only showing implicit durations so I should have
engaged my brain more with it to understand where the duration should
come...

Richard