And if you specifically want the "-" to signify minor instead of "m", try:
Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Simon Albrecht <[email protected]>wrote: > But, of course, you’ll find it documented in the Notation Reference: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/chord-notation and > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-chord-modifiers > . > Thus, following your examples, you write f1:m7 or ef1:6.9. > > Best regards, Simon > > Am 10.05.2014 23:00, schrieb rif: > > Actually, I'm still not really finding what I want in the snippets > repository. I don't see how I can [for instance] get a minor 7th chord > symbol. I just want to say "The chord here is F-7" [or Eb-6/9], without > having to write out all the notes of the chord, which is what seems to > happen in the snippets examples... > > > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Knute Snortum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, the latter. But if you search for "jazz chords" you find a pretty >> good function. I haven't tried it, but I may soon as I have wanted to use >> LilyPond for transcribing jazz music and lead sheets. >> >> >> Knute Snortum >> (via Gmail) >> >> >> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:47 AM, rif <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Are you suggesting that the file pop-chords.ly can be obtained from the >>> snippets repository? If so, I don't yet see how. Or are you just >>> suggesting that the snippets repository contains many useful and >>> interesting examples, in which case I agree completely? >>> >>> rif >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Knute Snortum <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/ >>>> >>>> Also, if the LSR search isn't working the way you want: >>>> >>>> in Google: "site:lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/" >>>> >>>> >>>> Knute Snortum >>>> (via Gmail) >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Tim McNamara <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On May 10, 2014, at 9:11 AM, rif <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Apparently I can get just say f:7.9- to get an F7b9. Hooray! >>>>> Still wondering if there's a canonical place for pop-chords. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:06 AM, rif <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I see many references to this on the mailing list, but are these >>>>>> files anywhere standard? I grabbed an old jazz-chords.ly from some >>>>>> mailing list message, but then it didn't work when I included it, and it >>>>>> had no version number so I couldn't figure out how to convert it. >>>>>> >>>>>> What I actually want to do: single line melodies with chord >>>>>> symbols. I'm using the "Simple lead sheet" from >>>>>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/chords as an >>>>>> example, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do things like >>>>>> get an F7b9 symbol in there. Most of the "chords" examples I find lying >>>>>> around seem to be built around the idea that you want to show a bunch of >>>>>> pitches of a chord and then get the name automatically? What am I >>>>>> missing? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The Lilypond Snippet Repository (a.k.a LSR) is a very helpful place >>>>> to look for this sort of thing. I don't have the URL handy on my iPad but >>>>> the name ought to be enough to help you find it via a web search. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> lilypond-user mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> lilypond-user mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >>>> >>>> >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing > [email protected]https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >
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