Re: A nicer triangle for 7M chords

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Laurent Martelli <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been tweeking my chord-name.scm and come to the conclusion that
> "$\\Delta$" gives a better looking triangle for major seventh chords
> than ((font-family . math) "M"). "M" is a filled triangle on my TeX
> installation (tetex 1.0.7+20011202 from Debian unstable), and "N" is a
> normal "upward triangle", but it does not look very good (i my
> opinion).So here's what I use for chord::names-alist-jazz in
> chrod-name.scm :
>
>       (((0 . 0) (2 . 0) (4 . 0) (6 . 0)) .  ("$^\\Delta$"))

Maybe it should be easier to customize.  As you can see from the
comment in the file, it seems that everyone wants different triangles.

> By the way, if I run lilypond in a directory where there is a
> chord-name.scm, it is loaded, but if I run ly2dvi it does not use
> it. Is this a feature or a bug ?

You can look at it both ways, depending on what you want.  I'd say
it's a bug, but it won't be fixed any time soon.  You can try:

    export GUILE_LOAD_PATH=`pwd`
    ly2dvi foo.ly

but lilypond may well still use the installed .scm file.

Jan.    

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