Re: Trying to do a template

[Mats Bengtsson]

You cannot define a macro (or identifier or whatever you want to
call it) that does not contain a complete expression. Since the syntax
for \new is something like
\new <ContextType> \with <ContextSettings> <Music>
it means that you have to include also the music itself in the
\blankchords in order to get a correct syntax.

I recommend that you instead look at Section "9.1.5 Changing
context default settings" in the manual for a more convenient
way to obtain what you want to do.

Also, please always tell what LilyPond version you use when
asking questions on the mailing list.

 /Mats




joeyc (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying my first template and things aren't working out...
> I make a template called blankchords, but it I get an error.
>
> what's wrong here...
>
> thanks
> joey
>
>
>
> blankchords = \new ChordNames \with {
> \override BarLine #'bar-size = #4
> voltaOnThisStaff = ##t
> \consists Bar_engraver
> \consists "Volta_engraver"
> \consists "Percent_repeat_engraver"
> }
>
> \blankchords
> \chordmode
> {
>         \repeat volta 2
>         {
>                 \partial 8 s8 | f2:maj f:7 \repeat "percent" 2 {bes1:7}
>                 c:maj c:maj c:maj c:maj c:maj c:maj c:maj
>         }
>         \alternative { es e }
> }
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