Re: Chromatic notation

[sheltraw]

Thanks Neil

Looks like soemthing is wrong though. The A# and the B show up at the
same position.



> On 16 April 2010 01:01,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I would like to be able to use Lilypond to create chromatic musical
>> notation - 6 lines per staff movement from any line to space or space
>> to line is a half step.
>>
>> Is there a very simple way to do this using Lilypond? I don't want to
>> use
>> external code except for maybe a style file.
>
> It's not very well documented (yet), but you probably want to use
> staffLineLayoutFunction:
>
> (lifted from here:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob;f=input/regression/chromatic-scales.ly)
>
> scales = \relative {
>   a ais b c cis d dis e f fis g gis
>   a
> }
>
> \new Staff \with {
>   \remove "Accidental_engraver"
>   \remove "Key_engraver"
>   staffLineLayoutFunction = #ly:pitch-semitones
>   middleCPosition = #-6
>   clefGlyph = #"clefs.G"
>   clefPosition = #(+ -6 7)
> }
> {
>   \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-count = #6
>   \time 4/4
>   <<
>     \scales
>     \context NoteNames {
>       \set printOctaveNames= ##f
>       \scales
>     }
>   >>
> }
>
> Regards,
> Neil
>