Re: Spacing of chords on a chord lead sheet
On 11/05/24 01:59, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi Raphael,
However, the chord names are mono-spaced; they are not spaced
according to their durations. So that if, for instance, I have {ef2
ef4:maj7 ef4:7} then each symbol occupies the same amount of space on
the line. The first chord does not occupy double the space of the
other two.
Are you sure? Are you using ragged-right = ##f to confirm/test?
For example, the code
%%% SNIPPET BEGINS
\version "2.25.11"
\language "english"
\layout {
indent = 0
line-width = 4\in
ragged-right = ##f
\context {
\Score
\remove "Bar_number_engraver"
}
\context {
\ChordNames
\consists "Bar_engraver"
\override BarLine.bar-extent = #'(-2 . 2)
}
}
theChords = \chordmode {
ef4 ef2:maj7 ef4:7 \break
ef2 ef4:maj7 ef4:7
}
\new ChordNames \theChords
%%% SNIPPET ENDS
gives me the output
and clearly there’s a difference in the spacing.
Cheers,
Kieren.
Thank you for your suggestions.
I am neither setting nor touching ragged-right.
I suspect that part of the difference that we see is that you forced
lilypond to spread a limited amount of music over two lines. In my case
it is jamming 49 bars into one page. After sleeping on it, what worked
for me, in the end, is
\score {
<<*
\set Score.proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1/8)
\override Score.SpacingSpanner.strict-note-spacing = ##t
*
\new ChordNames \with {
\override ChordName.font-size = #'+3
\override BarLine.bar-extent = #'(-2 . 2)
\ consists "Bar_engraver"
} {
\introChords \bar "||" \break
\chordNames \bar "|."
}
>>
\layout {
}
}
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Re: Spacing of chords on a chord lead sheet
Hi Raphael,
> However, the chord names are mono-spaced; they are not spaced according to
> their durations. So that if, for instance, I have {ef2 ef4:maj7 ef4:7} then
> each symbol occupies the same amount of space on the line. The first chord
> does not occupy double the space of the other two.
Are you sure? Are you using ragged-right = ##f to confirm/test?
For example, the code
%%% SNIPPET BEGINS
\version "2.25.11"
\language "english"
\layout {
indent = 0
line-width = 4\in
ragged-right = ##f
\context {
\Score
\remove "Bar_number_engraver"
}
\context {
\ChordNames
\consists "Bar_engraver"
\override BarLine.bar-extent = #'(-2 . 2)
}
}
theChords = \chordmode {
ef4 ef2:maj7 ef4:7 \break
ef2 ef4:maj7 ef4:7
}
\new ChordNames \theChords
%%% SNIPPET ENDS
gives me the output
and clearly there’s a difference in the spacing.
Cheers,
Kieren.
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Spacing of chords on a chord lead sheet
I have generated a chord lead sheet for a bass player with just the
chords on it (\chordMode, no notes). After some fiddling I got the bar
lines and repeats printed.
However, the chord names are mono-spaced; they are not spaced according
to their durations. So that if, for instance, I have {ef2 ef4:maj7
ef4:7} then each symbol occupies the same amount of space on the line.
The first chord does not occupy double the space of the other two.
Is there a way of getting proportional spacing?
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