On Wednesday, 12 April 2000, "James Hammons" writes:
> I was looking at the chords.ly file in 'input/test' and I noticed that lily
> seems to recognize the amount of space that a chord symbol takes and
> compensates for it. It *almost* works. Just a little more space between
> the symbols that run together would make them readable as distinct entities.
> Since lily seems to know how much space the chord symbols take up and is
> able to compensate for them, how much harder would it be to get lily to add
> just a little more space?
This should be quite simple indeed, we need the same thing for lyrics.
Maybe I'll have a look today.
> Also, how close is the chord mechanism to being customizable? It looks like
> a few additions to 'lily.scm' *should* do it... Would it be possilbe in
> there to specify, for example, that it should show Cmaj7/b9 instead of
> Cmaj7/9- ? Also, would there be any way of turning off things like no5
> (since the ommision of a fifth from a chord usually doesn't alter its
> character)?
Chords have been configurable since early 1.3, but the 'user interface'
is rather klugdy.
Have a look at input/test/banter-chords.ly
Greetings,
Jan.
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