Re: question about minor + fourth

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 2016-08-28 0:19 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Poly <address@hidden>:
>>> Thanks for the code you sent me in private Jacques, it's full of useful
>>> examples but I still can't make this particular chord work.
>>>
>>> I want to display a minor chord with a fourth like this: "Am (add4)". That's
>>> all I want to do.
>>> First I'm surprised that I have to specify the chord (in the variable
>>> chExceptionMusic) in a note to note format (in this case <a c e d>). Is it
>>> not possible to specify it in a chord name format ?
>>
>> You would need to do it in \chordmode but there the "-"-sign has a
>> different meaning,
>
> One can use _ here I guess.  Unpretty, yes.
>
>> not to mention that TextScript is not allowed in ChordNames for this
>> (and probably other) reason(s).
>
> \chords \with { \consists "Script_engraver" }
> {
>   c_\markup {C it is}
> }
>
> does not complain but does nothing I can see with the script.  Probably
> just missing some crucial incantation...

Sigh.  Text_engraver rather than Script_engraver , of course.  At any
rate, \chordmode is not just for ChordNames anyway.  You can use it fine
in a normal Staff (which would make more sense here anyway).  Or a
FretBoards context.

-- 
David Kastrup