On Friday, 12 February 1999, "Simons, Don" writes:
> Johan wrote
>
> >On Saturday, 6 February 1999, Christoph Kukulies writes:
>
> >> I want to generate some sheets that contain only the chords (changes)
> >> of a certain tune (Jazz, Real Book, for example), like>>>
>
> >I have exactly that.
> >It is a Perl script that takes simplified ASCII input and produces a
> >PostScript file, that can be printed directly.
> >
> >An example of input
>
> I have viewed the attached Postscript output. Numbers appear as subscripts.
> In conventional jazz notation, they should be superscripts.
There have been several requests for LilyPond to do chord names.
I didn't know too much about chord notations myself, but writing
all the code to do this proved to be a too high obstacle for
newcomers.
I have looked and asked around, but it seems that there is no such
thing as 'conventional jazz notation'. That's why I've implemented
one chord notation standard, that's well documented in [Banter].
It is now almost trivial to add another chord notation standard (sic)
to LilyPond. There's a routine called Chord::banter_str, that gets
as input a list of pitches, a tonic and an optional inversion pitch,
and produces a Banter style chord name.
People that know about chords, and want to use them, are invited to add
their own conversion routine (should produces a chord name in TeX or
PostScript).
Greetings,
Jan.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/ | http://www.lilypond.org/
