Re: Parenthesizing chord names

[James E. Bailey]

El 01.03.2009, a las 01:12, Tim McNamara escribió:

> A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional  
> chords written over the melody staff.  An example is a turnaround  
> at the end of a song that is not played the last time through.  For  
> example in "Easy Living" the turnaround over the last two bars of  
> the second ending is (using the default language conventions):
>
> f2 aes2:7
> des2:maj7 c2:7
>
> Rather than writing a separate ending, I'd like to just  
> parenthesize the last three chords  over the final two bars so they  
> would render:
>
> F    (    Ab7    Dbmaj7    C7    )
>
> This approach is commonly used in jazz lead sheets rather than  
> writing multiple endings within multiple endings or adding codas.   
> I've been plowing through the documentation and have searched the  
> Web, which has extensive stuff about parenthesizing but nothing  
> that I have found to suit the need I have.

You could probably just add the Text_engraver to the ChordNames  
context, and include it as markup.