Re: How to enter chords names in makam.ly

[Valentin Villenave]

On 5/28/20, prosfigaki80 <prosfigaki80@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am writing music including makam.ly but chords names different from
> natural notes are not recognized by Lilypond

Greetings,
you’re right.  You can fix it by adding this at the top of your file:

%%%%

\include "makam.ly"
#(set! language-pitch-names
       (append language-pitch-names
               (list `(makam . ,makamPitchNames))))
#(set! standard-alteration-glyph-name-alist
       (append standard-alteration-glyph-name-alist
               makamGlyphs))
\language "makam"

%%%%

I’ll edit the makam.ly file itself to include that in the next LilyPond release.

Even with this modification, however, chord notation remains limited
for non-semitones accidentals: for example the following example works
(more or less) for NoteNames, but not very well for ChordNames:

%%%%
music = { <c efk gbm>}

<<
  \new Staff \music
  \new NoteNames \music
  \new ChordNames \music
>>
%%%%

Cheers,
-- V.