On Wed, 2024-11-06 at 16:30 +0000, wak...@tilde.team wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 02:30:53PM +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> > 
> > I think I can guess why you didn't get the result you wanted. You
> > should enter the chord symbols by using a separate staff for them:
> > 
> > [....]
> > 
> > and friends, which is an older interface attaching text to the
> > melody
> > notes. With that you would have to start tinkering with the
> > LilyPond
> > syntax...
> 
> 
> Yes you're exactly right, it seemed easier, but I'll give the chord
> staff a try. 
> 
> One thing I may have to change anyway, given the comment by Joe in
> this thread 

There is a  way to customise the way chords are designated - id I
recall correctly it involves having a dummy movement which comprises
the chords you want to use with the chord symbol text you want attached
- Denemo then emits the needed LilyPond syntax to make those chords be
typeset as those symbols.
I can dig around to find out about this if you need to this - I recall
setting it up for one of my brothers that was doing jazz at the time, I
think it may be undocumented in consequence as the to-ing and fro-ing
would have gone on off list :(
> 
> 
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
> > Technically you only need the root note to get it to appear as a
> > chord, but I tend to fill in the major/minor triad so that it 
> > sounds better on playback.
> 
> > Then add the 7th note above the fifth. major 7ths, diminished
> > thirds and augmented fifths come out with, presumably, official 
> > symbls. It would be nice to get them displayed as maj7, dim, aug,
> > and sus4 etc, but I haven't figured out how.
> 
> 
> Is getting the display name more like what's used in a jazz lead
> sheet.
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > I can't -- I see the hand pointer, but dragging doesn't work.
> > 
> > This will be the problem that you are using the evince-view package
> > instead of the atril-view package, point and click stopped working
> > in
> > the default evolution packages some years ago.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the clue! I can see about changing that in my distro.

If you are using a version of Denemo provided by a distro it will
likely be rather out-of-date. The (nightly) builds provided by Andreas 
http://www.denemo.org/~aschneider/
or the other possibilities listed on 
https://denemo.org/downloads-page/ should be better.

> Would there be any cons to changing to atril-view from your 
> perspective?

No, atril-view works perfectly for Denemo. 

Richard


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