Re: How to achieve chord stop with ¬

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 5/21/09 1:08 AM, "Stjepan Brbot" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> M Watts wrote:
>> 
>> There are at least 2 versions in UTF-8; a normal one U+00AC, and a
>> full-width one U+FFE2.
>> 
>> To use these within lilypond, do \markup { \char ##x00AC } or \markup {
>> \char ##xFFE2 }.
>> 
>> Or, if your file is saved with UTF-8 encoding, you can paste the
>> character straight into it.
>> 
> 
> Thanks Marc, but it is not problem with character code. One can insert UTF-8
> correct character ¬ like I did in this message using Character Map tool. The
> issue is with position of this character inside chords line and how to
> insert it easily. There is similar thread about N.C. on this forum. How to
> easily insert N.C. (No Chord). The same story is here.

Stjepan,

First, you should know that this has been fixed in the git sources and will
be available in the next development release.

You can read the documentation about it here:
<http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-chord
s.html#Displaying-chords>

For clarity, you should be talking about a ChordNames context, rather than a
chords line.  Chords can be displayed in many contexts, including at least
TabStaff, Staff, FretBoards, and ChordNames. I mention this not to complain,
but to try to help you learn a little bit more about LilyPond.  I remember
when I started with LilyPond, all of the LilyPond specific terms like
"context" were very confusing to me.  Now they make sense.

Anyway, if you can wait for the next development release (which should
probably be available in less than two weeks), you will have this
functionality.

Regards,

Carl