Re: Chord names font

[Carl Sorensen]

On 6/15/16 6:25 AM, "Ralph Palmer" <address@hidden> wrote:

>Greetings -
>I'm getting closer. I'm running LY 2.19.33 under Win 7.
>
>How can I change the size of the chord names, and/or change them to bold.
>I've tried a few possibilities, and looked in the Notation Reference, the
>Internals Reference, and the Snippets Repository, with no luck.

The Internals Reference entry on ChordName says that the ChordName
supports the font-interface (see the bottom of the page).

The font-interface entry in the internal reference says that you can use
font-family (sans or roman), font-name, font-series (including medum,
bold, bold-narrow), font-shape, and font-size.

So something like

\override ChordName.font-size = #-3

should reduce the fount size by approximately 36%.

 % Chord names
\version "2.19.33"
\include "english.ly"


tune =    \relative {
  g'4 g a g  |
}

tuneChords = \chordmode {
  g2 
  \override ChordName.font-size= #-3
  d2 
}

\score {
  <<
    \new ChordNames \tuneChords
    \new Staff \tune
  >>
}





HTH,

Carl