-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi David,
You're very welcome. :-) BTW, while that will work you still have to put a \popChords thing into your chord block, so it's still not 100% automatic the way language files are. If someone could tell me how to make this happen I'd be more than happy to code it. :-) Warmest regards, - -- Shamus David Stocker wrote: > Thanks Shamus, this is great. > > Incidentally, if you store a copy of "pop-chords.ly" in your lilypond's > usr/share/lilypond/current/ly folder (or somewhere else in LilyPond's > path) you can call it using \include just like the language-settings > files (i.e. without having to put a copy of it in your current working > directory). > > I will get much use from this. > > Shamus wrote: > Grammostola Rosea wrote: > >>>> Tim McNamara wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Tim McNamara wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> How do I make chords with the 5th an half tone lower or higher >>>>>>>> (e.g. b5 or #5)? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> for example >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Am7(b5) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> or >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> D7(#5) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> I just asked this same question a couple of weeks ago. The standard >>>>>>> way would be: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Am7(b5) for two beats = a2:m7.5- which will render as Aø >>>>>>> >>>>>>> D7(#5) for four beats = d1:7.5+ which will render as D7/#5 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> You can do #9 or b9, etc. this way. All the altered notes will be >>>>>>> preceded by a slash except the major 7th, m7b5 and diminished chords >>>>>>> which are denoted by a delta, diminished sign or half-diminished >>>>>>> sign respectively. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> There are other options for rendering the chords which involve >>>>>>> setting up a file of chord markups. For more information, look in >>>>>>> the mailing list archives for the thread "Hello! and question about >>>>>>> jazz chords" for more details. The thread started 10 Feb 2009. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks! >>>>>> >>>>>> Yeah it would be nice if jazz chords will be improved in Lilypond, >>>>>> like it was suggested in the link you gave... >>>>>> >>>>> Well, the jazz chord rendering follows a set of conventions, just not >>>>> the ones established at Berklee and in the Real Book. There's really >>>>> nothing wrong with it except that it's not what most jazz musicians >>>>> will expect (and the slash is a bit confusing- "is the #5 in the >>>>> bass?"). But I've been handed lots of charts at rehearsals with the >>>>> chords rendered the way LilyPond does it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> No nothing wrong at all. But maybe it is nice to have both (different) >>>> options to display the chords... >>>> > > This has been a contentious issue for me as well--while in the past the > chord rendering was really awful, the situation *is* much improved today > now that it is possible to override the defaults. Also, there just > doesn't seem to be much agreement on how chords should be rendered even > in category subsets like jazz or pop for that matter. > > So my solution has been to maintain a separate file with chord > definitions that I like (side note: it would be nice to be able to > simply include the file and get results that you expect, much like when > you include a language file). I'm including mine here so you can get an > idea of how it's done and how to use it (mebbe I should post this on > LSR?). > > Perhaps in the future the authors might make a contrib folder for a > whole bunch of different chord styles and make it as easy to use as > including the right file. I don't know how much work would be involved, > but it seems like it would go a long way towards alleviating these kinds > of posts that inevitably crop up as more and more people discover that > they can do really nice lead sheets with lilypond. :-) > > -- Shamus > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmmsPMACgkQmE5b/O3JjkZerACg1o3BeIa90cfdIy0qRdbrBH0T HvcAn1i7RSAe3DoThuYztI6A0GyQ+cgr =ipie -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
