Re: Problem of chords with lilypond 2.10.33 under debian lenny

[Marc Hohl]

Le Piaf schrieb:
> Hello everybody !
>
> I just discover lilypond and want to make, in one page, a list of some 
> chords with their names above.
> In order to do so, I tried to use \chordnames.
> I got two problems :
>
> First, not all the alterations are visible before each chord, because 
> lilypond considers that some alterations have been showed before.
>
> I tried #(set-accidental-style 'forget) but it seems to have strange 
> behaviour (second and "invisible" staff above the one where the chords 
> are, but a key is showed)...
>
> Secondly, I want to have one "type" of chord on each mesure. For 
> example, every "c" (major, 6, 7, minor, and diminued) in the same mesure.
> Then, every "des", etc.
> What kind of \time command should I use ?
> Is there another (and simple) way to do that ?
>
> Could you help me to do that ?
>
> I hope you'll understand my english.
> Please answer in very simple words, or in french if you can (in 
> private then)
>
> I join a example of my try : the ".ly" file.
>
> Thanks !
>
> Le Piaf
If you use invisible bar lines and whole notes, you don't have to fiddle
with accidentals:

[snip]

% Accords
\version "2.10.33"
\header { title = "Accords" }

accords =
{
 \chordmode
 {
    \time 4/4
    c1:maj7  \bar ""  c:6   \bar ""  c:7  \bar ""  c:m7  \bar ""   
c:dim  \break
    cis:maj7 \bar ""  cis:6 \bar "" cis:7 \bar "" cis:m7 \bar "" 
cis:dim  \break
    des:maj7 \bar ""  des:6 \bar "" des:7 \bar "" des:m7 \bar "" 
des:dim  \break
    d:maj7   \bar ""  d:6   \bar "" d:7   \bar "" d:m7   \bar "" 
d:dim    \break
    dis:maj7 \bar ""  dis:6 \bar "" dis:7 \bar "" dis:m7 \bar "" 
dis:dim  \break
    ees:maj7 \bar ""  ees:6 \bar "" ees:7 \bar "" ees:m7 \bar "" 
ees:dim  \break
    e:maj7   \bar ""  e:6   \bar "" e:7   \bar "" e:m7   \bar "" 
e:dim    \break
    f:maj7   \bar ""  f:6   \bar "" f:7   \bar "" f:m7   \bar "" 
f:dim    \break
    fis:maj7 \bar ""  fis:6 \bar "" fis:7 \bar "" fis:m7 \bar "" 
fis:dim  \break
    ges:maj7 \bar ""  ges:6 \bar "" ges:7 \bar "" ges:m7 \bar "" 
ges:dim  \break
    g:maj7   \bar ""  g:6   \bar "" g:7   \bar "" g:m7   \bar "" 
g:dim    \break
    gis:maj7 \bar ""  gis:6 \bar "" gis:7 \bar "" gis:m7 \bar "" 
gis:dim  \break
    aes:maj7 \bar ""  aes:6 \bar "" aes:7 \bar "" aes:m7 \bar "" 
aes:dim  \break
    a:maj7   \bar ""  a:6   \bar "" a:7   \bar "" a:m7   \bar "" 
a:dim    \break
    bes:maj7 \bar ""  bes:6 \bar "" bes:7 \bar "" bes:m7 \bar "" 
bes:dim  \break
    b:maj7   \bar ""  b:6   \bar "" b:7   \bar "" b:m7   \bar "" 
b:dim    \break
 } % chordmode
} % accords

\score
{
 <<
   \new ChordNames \accords
   \new Staff \accords
 >>

 \layout{}

} %score

[snip]

You can add a \paper block saying

\paper {
 indent = 0
}

to make the first line as long as the following.

Marc

Marc