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Re: How to engrave lowercase chord symbols
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David Kastrup |
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Re: How to engrave lowercase chord symbols |
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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 14:32:52 +0200 |
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Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
> 2016-10-22 12:43 GMT+02:00 Todor Vachkov <address@hidden>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> My goal is to engrave music for accordion and I would like to have my chords
>> symbols as follows:
>>
>> Bass tone: allways uppercase: e.g. A E D
>>
>> Chords: allways lower case: e.g. major chords a e d; minor chords am em dm
>>
>> And together: A am E e D d7
>>
>> In Lilypond you can force the lowercase only for the minors:
>>
>> \set chordNameLowercaseMinor = ##t
>>
>> But I would like to have this possibility for the majors, sevens etc. as
>> well...The bass tone is always uppercase, which is fine.
>>
>> Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> Which input-syntax do you prefer for entering single bass-notes?
These days I'd suggest <c> rather than c:1 . A "true" accordion chord
entry mode would likely provide capitalized pitch names like C, Dis,
... for the bass notes. But for standard \chordmode, this seems
easiest.
> Please give a compiling example even when it does not what you want.
>
> Otherwise, how about:
>
> \layout {
> \context {
> \Score
> chordNoteNamer = #note-name->markup
> chordRootNamer =
> #(lambda (pitch lowercase?) (note-name->markup pitch #t))
> }
> }
>
> \new ChordNames \chordmode { c:7 c:m7 c:7/+c c:m7/+c }
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David Kastrup