Yes, I have my own large collection of Brandt-Roemer definitions, based on jazz-chords.ly. I've been adding to them for years and still once in a while I find some new ones. My problem is that I was attempting to use the ChordGrid feature, and it doesn't seem to listen to chordNameExceptions. In the PDF I posted you can see that the score with ChordNames has my chord names, but the one with ChordGrid does not.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > For extensions above the triad, you have to specify all the notes in the > stack up to the extension you want named: e.g., d1:7 for D7, d1:7.9 for > D9, d1:7.9.11 for D11, d1:7.9.11+ for D9#11, d1:7.5- for D7b5, d1:7.9.11.13 > to get a chord to render as "D13.” Etc. If you input d1:13 you'll get > odd results like the D9add13; Lilypond doesn’t assume the voices below the > highest extension like a musician would but instead is very literal. > > Also, if you input a chord that doesn’t specifically exist in your > Brandt/Roemer file, Lilypond will default back to the Ignatziek names. > Even after 15 years of using a .ily file with the Brandt/Roemer style chord > names, I’ll still occasionally have one sneak through and have to update > the .ily file. > > > > On Aug 3, 2026, at 2:49 PM, Carl Sorensen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2026, 1:35 PM Eric Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I started experimenting with LilyPond's ChordGrid display. I can't find >> very many examples using it, so I guess it isn't very popular yet. I'm >> using Brandt and Roemer chord names instead of the built-in Ignatzek chord >> names, using chordNameExceptions for that purpose. It looks like ChordGrid >> doesn't follow chordNameExceptions. Am I doing something wrong, or is that >> intentional? Is there another way to supply my own chord names in the >> ChordGrid context? >> > > Please post a small example to the lists we can see what you're trying. > > Thanks, > > Carl > >> >
