On 11 Mar 2004, at 14:52, John Chambers wrote:
Giovanni Ferro Luzzi writes: | | I am quite a new user of ABC, and would like to ask if it is | possible to use jazz notation for chords symbols (with no notes), | as follows: | | A7 Edim7 G-7 D alt. | __________________________ | __________________________ | __________________________ | __________________________ | __________________________ | | so that the chords appear in boldface above the staff (or in the | middle of it), but nothing else in the staff.
Chords have to be attached to notes or rests, but a lot of abc software has long accepted 'x' as a rest ('z') that isn't drawn. This is useful for producing uncluttered, blank staff space. It also works with some abc software for what you want. I tried the following "tune" with abc2ps, and it worked fine:
X: 1 T: TEST: Chords Only K: C | "Dm"x2 "Gm"x2 | "A7"x2 "Dm"x2 |
This gave me a staff with the chords evenly spaced above the staff, but nothing on the staff except the three bar lines.
I don't know how many other abc programs will accept this.
Works fine in BarFly, as long as you add an M: field (M: none is fine).
(What's a D alt chord by the way?)
Phil Taylor
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