Re: German chords with uppercase bass

[Thomas Morley]

Am Fr., 8. Apr. 2022 um 20:57 Uhr schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm
<lilypondml@fiee.net>:
>
> Am 07.04.22 um 17:02 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:
> > As is shown e.g. in
> > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/snippets-big-page.de.html
> > “Changing the chord names to German or semi-German notation”,
> > \germanChords changes bass notes of chords like a:m/c to lowercase.
> >
> > I really would
> > like to get German chords (i.e. H instead of B) with uppercase bass
> > notes – as I know it from all my (German) songbooks.
> >
> > I’m sure there’s a clever setting or Scheme snippet for that.
> > Can you help me?
>
> Please, anyone?
>
> Hraban
>

\germanChords uses `chord-name->german-markup' to print the root-name
(chordRootNamer) of a chord and `note-name->german-markup' to print an
additional bass-note (chordNoteNamer).
If you comment the chordNoteNamer there, the chordRootNamer takes over.

germanChords = {
  \set chordRootNamer = #(chord-name->german-markup #t)
  %\set chordNoteNamer = #note-name->german-markup
}

scm = \chordmode {
   c1/c | cis/cis
   b1/b | bis/bis | bes/bes
}

<<
   \new ChordNames {
     \germanChords \scm
   }
   \context Voice { \scm }
>>

NB altered bass notes are now printed like the root, i.e. C♯ not Cis.
Already ok? If not holler.


Imho, german chords in LilyPond are not correct and were never: as an
example, C♯ is never a _german_ naming

Also see my comment:
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6305#note_890059707

Cheers,
  Harm