Re: German chords with uppercase bass

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 09.04.22 um 12:02 schrieb Thomas Morley:
> Am Fr., 8. Apr. 2022 um 20:57 Uhr schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm
> > > 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.

> \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.

Thank you! Since I don’t have altered bass notes in my current project, 
this would be enough. I didn’t think of those though, and it would be 
better to get "Cis/Cis" from \chordmode{ cis/cis }.

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

I guess, but I don’t have any serious musical education.
I can live with C# / Cb, but LilyPond displays the modificators very 
big, and that’s ugly. Might depend on the font. I’d expect them to be 
small and raised, like a footnote marker.

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

I agree.


Hraban