Re: Fretboard diagrams: Why does LilyPond sometimes try to interpret ":7" as a duration?

2022-07-25 Thread David Kastrup
Kevin Cole writes: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 5:56 PM Aaron Hill wrote: >> >> On 2022-07-25 1:56 pm, Kevin Cole wrote: >> >> frets = \chordmode { f4 c4:7 g4:7 c4 bf4 d4:m } >> ^^ >> Input is in chord mode. Modifiers like :m and :7 work. >> >> >> frets = { g4 c4 a4 d4:7 } >>

Re: Fretboard diagrams: Why does LilyPond sometimes try to interpret ":7" as a duration?

2022-07-25 Thread Kevin Cole
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 5:56 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > > On 2022-07-25 1:56 pm, Kevin Cole wrote: > >> frets = \chordmode { f4 c4:7 g4:7 c4 bf4 d4:m } > ^^ > Input is in chord mode. Modifiers like :m and :7 work. > > >> frets = { g4 c4 a4 d4:7 } >^ > Missing

Re: Fretboard diagrams: Why does LilyPond sometimes try to interpret ":7" as a duration?

2022-07-25 Thread Carl Sorensen
> > > respectively, work fine. The third has a bit more going on, but adding: > > > > > > > > frets = { g4 c4 a4 d4:7 } > > > > > > > now gives me: > > > > > error: not a duration > > > g4 c4 a4 d4: > > > 7 > > > > (Without the frets score, everything is fine.) > You are

Re: Fretboard diagrams: Why does LilyPond sometimes try to interpret ":7" as a duration?

2022-07-25 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2022-07-25 1:56 pm, Kevin Cole wrote: frets = \chordmode { f4 c4:7 g4:7 c4 bf4 d4:m } ^^ Input is in chord mode. Modifiers like :m and :7 work. frets = { g4 c4 a4 d4:7 } ^ Missing \chordmode. :7 indicates a tremolo with an invalid duration. -- Aaron Hill

Re: Fretboard diagrams: Why does LilyPond sometimes try to interpret ":7" as a duration?

2022-07-25 Thread Kevin Cole
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 4:56 PM Kevin Cole wrote: > > Hi, > > I decided to move all of the fretboards from various scores to a > "summary" score at the top -- sort of a "legend" so that the scores > would not take up so much space. > > I'm defining a variable named frets and then, later: > >