Re: Adding text to chord names or note names

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 28/11/2022 à 20:27, Jean Abou Samra a écrit :
> The other piece of brainstorming I know about, although I didn’t chase 
> all
> the discussions in the devel mailing list, is the GSoC patch. This has 
> the
> same goal of making it easier to coerce LilyPond into formatting chord 
> names
> the way you want, but does so with a different approach: remember the 
> details
> of how the chord was entered in \chordmode, so that the chord formatting
> is closer to the input. Compared to just adding chord symbols with
> \markup, that has the advantage that LilyPond understands what the
> chords are actually made of, and the disadvantage that it can still be
> cumbersome to teach LilyPond how to format the chords the way you
> want.
>
> I don't typeset chord names myself, I don't really know how strong the
> arguments are for each side. Maybe there's a place for both, maybe not.
>
> At any rate, as opposed to the chord semantics GSoC approach, it would
> be rather straightforward implementation-wise to make LilyPond understand
> arbitrary chord symbols, as shown in the code from my original reply.


Amusingly, I found this post from 2001:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-music-discuss/2001-03/msg00327.html

(The thread continues here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-music-discuss/2001-04/msg00000.html)

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