Re: jazz chords superscript

[Mats Bengtsson]

What LilyPond version do you use? Please always try to include a complete
(but short) example of LilyPond code, that can be run directly through 
LilyPond,
which shows what you have tried, when sending a question to the mailing 
list.

I suspect that the problem is not the \super command, which is a valid
markup command, but hash mark "#" in G#mi, since hash marks are used
to tell LilyPond that "Here comes some embedded code in the Scheme
programming language". Try adding double quotes around the "G#mi"
and see if it works better.

  /Mats

steve berthiaume wrote:
> hello,
>
> i'm trying to define a set of custom chords for use in jazz charts, 
> and i would like to be able to have the numbers (7, 9, 11, 13, etc) 
> raised above the chord name.  I use Brandt-Roemer standardized chord 
> notation, so my chords look like Cmi7, Cma9, Cdim, Cmi7b5 etc.
>
> I've checked out the regression test, 
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/source/input/regression/lily-2253a7494a.ly> 
> and it says to add a superscript, the number has to be preceded by 
> \super.  i've tried this in the following example, and i get an 
> 'unknown escaped string "\super"' error:
>
>
> b4^\markup {G#mi \super "9"}
>
> what am i doing wrong?
>
> thanks,
>
> -steve
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