Re: How to parenthesise bass note in chord symbol?

[Peter Crighton]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 00:27, Thomas Morley <address@hidden> wrote:

Am Sa., 6. Okt. 2018 um 23:48 Uhr schrieb Peter Crighton
<address@hidden>:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I need the bass note of a chord symbol to be in parentheses, like so:
> C(/G)
>
> How could I achieve this? I am, sadly, clueless.
>
> \version "2.19.82"
> \new ChordNames {
>   \chordmode {
>     % like this, but with only the /G in parentheses -> C(/G)
>     \parenthesize c1/g
>   }
> }
>
> Thanks,
> Peter

Hi,

probably:

\new ChordNames
  \chordmode {
    \set slashChordSeparator = ""
    \set chordNoteNamer =
    #(lambda (pitch lowercase?)
      (make-line-markup (list "(/" (note-name->markup pitch lowercase?) ")")))
    c/fis
    c/g
  }

HTH,
  Harm

Thanks!

How would I go about either shifting the parentheses vertically or making them smaller? They probably make sense how they are now with regard to sharps/flats and possible lowercase letters, but they still look off, especially with the C(/G) example. Although I’m just realising – looking at the characters I just typed in – that such alignment of parentheses is probably typographically common. I would have expected them to be exactly as tall as all other characters in the example.

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