\key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Eitner
Hello, I have difficulty understanding this tiny example, which is a breakdown of my general problem: { %\key a \major \chords { a1 c } \relative c'' { a1 c } } Without the \key command, the chords are shown

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 18 April 2011 10:30, Christian Eitner 7enderh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have difficulty understanding this tiny example, which is a breakdown of my general problem: { %\key a \major \chords { a1 c } \relative c'' {

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Eitner
Dear Xavier, On 18 April 2011 10:40, Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: It is due to implicit context creation. If you explicit your contexts (Staff, ChordNames) then such problem would not appear. As explained in the doc,  \chords { ... }  is a shortcut notation for  \new ChordNames

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread David Bobroff
On 4/18/2011 9:03 AM, Christian Eitner wrote: Dear Xavier, On 18 April 2011 10:40, Xavier Scheuerx.sche...@gmail.com wrote: It is due to implicit context creation. If you explicit your contexts (Staff, ChordNames) then such problem would not appear. As explained in the doc, \chords { ... }

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Eitner
Dear David, I would simply use skips: \version 2.12.3 {     \chords     {       s1*2       a1 c     }     \relative c''     {       a1 c a c     }   } Isn't this what you mean? Yes, but there is really a lot of stuff going on before the couple of bars with chords, and I would

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 18 April 2011 15:58, Christian Eitner 7enderh...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but there is really a lot of stuff going on before the couple of bars with chords, and I would have to adjust the number of skipped bars each time something changed. Is there perhaps a way to tell the new chords

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Eitner
Dear Xavier, Is there perhaps a way to tell the new chords context to be placed above alread existent ones? There is the  alignAboveContext  property. Cf. NR 1.6.2 Modifying single staves \version 2.13.60 \score {     \new Staff = main {     \relative c'' {       \key a \major