Re: Newbie chord alignment question

[Dominic Neumann]

I think, your problem is that you use \partial 4 but don´t remember
that when setting the harmonies. Please add s4 to the beginning of
your harmonies:

       harmonies ={
               \key e \major
               \chordmode {
                           s4
                           e1
                           e1
                           e1
                }
       }

Additionally, you don´t have to tell the \key in harmonies, because
that doesn´t matter.

Dominic

2008/8/19 Naveen Santhanam <address@hidden>:
> Hello,
>
> I am new user to this wonderful program. I have quick question about chord 
> alignment. I would like to align the chord names to the left (i.e, near the 
> bar). The .ly file I wrote (see below) prints the chord names at the center 
> of each measure along the X.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> \version "2.10.33"
>
>        \header {
>          title = "Work"
>          composer = "Me"
>          opus = "Op. 1"
>        }
>
>        \paper {
>          #(define dump-extents #t)
>
>          indent = 0\mm
>          line-width = 160\mm
>          force-assignment = #""
>          line-width = #(- line-width (* mm  3.000000))
>        }
> %************************************************************
>        melody = {
>                \override Score.MetronomeMark #'padding = #10
>                \tempo 4=120
>                \clef treble
>                \key e \major
>                \time 4/4
>                \relative c' {
>                        \partial 8*2 e8  e8 |
>                        e4. e4 e4 eis8 |
>                        eis2  r8 r16 e,8. e8 |
>                }
>        }
>
>
> %************************************************************
>        harmonies ={
>                \key e \major
>                \chordmode {
>
>                            e1
>                            e1
>                            e1
>                 }
>        }
>        text = \lyricmode {
>                 Eee8  ee8 ee4. -- ee4 ee4 ee4 -- ee4
>         }
>
> % ****************************************************************
> % Score - layout
> \score {
>
>        <<
>                \new ChordNames {
>                \harmonies
>                }
>
>                \new Voice = "flute" {
>                \melody
>                }
>
>                \new Lyrics \lyricsto flute \text
>        >>
>
>        \layout {
>                }
> }
>
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