Re: [Denemo-devel] chord symbols

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 10:51 -0500, Brian Mauter wrote:
> I tried one more thing.  I added a second voice to that top staff and
> put four quarter spacers in it.  On the fourth spacer, I added a Text
> Annotation and it looks right.  Still, is there a better way?

I was playing around just now with Chord Symbols (entered as chords with
the staff set as a chord symbol staff) and I noticed that while ordinary
textual annotation doesn't show (something LilyPond calls markup) Marks
*do* show with the Chord Symbols. The command to use is
Directives->Markings->Add Mark (Text/Rehearsal/Bookmark) which is
usually keypress Shift-f9.
This allows you to design any sort of fancy markup and it will appear on
staff symbol staff and can be dragged if the positioning is not as you
desire.

BTW I was playing with this because I added a feature wanted by someone
else: easy creation of any of the 70 odd possible chord symbols. I've
added a command (in View->Palettes menu) to create a button that inserts
a chord of the type of the chord at the cursor (it asks you to name the
chord). So if you create, say a C7b13 and put the cursor on it and hit
the "Create Button for Chord Type" command it will put a button in a
palette of Chord Inserts. You can then put the cursor on any step of the
scale (sharpened or flattened), press p, <name of chord>, Enter and it
will insert that chord with the cursor note as root.

Richard

> 
> Thanks,
> -Brian
> 
> > On Sep 7, 2016, at 10:47 AM, Brian Mauter <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > I tried the chord staff thing once but it wasn’t what I was
> > expecting.  This time I did it exactly as you prescribed and it
> > looks great.  Thank you Andreas and Richard!  I even figured out how
> > to add a Bass Inversion.  I wasn’t expecting it on the Chord menu
> > because editing chord symbols is on the notes/rests menu.  It makes
> > sense now and I’ll know next time.
> > 
> > 
> > Might I bother with one more question?  What’s the correct way to
> > add a Da Capo?  In my example, I want the D.C. at approximately the
> > fourth beat of the second to last measure which will hopefully let
> > the chord symbols shift back down like on the other lines.
> > 
> > 
> > I tried using my chord staff with a three beat Gm chord and a
> > quarter spacer, but nothing renders when I add a D.C. al fine or a
> > regular textual annotation, which isn’t surprising—the staff is
> > hidden.  I don’t want to break my whole measure rest on the first
> > visible staff because of a technicality either.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Brian
> > 
> > 
> > <Screen Shot 2016-09-07 at 10.34.37 AM.png>
> > 
> > > On Sep 2, 2016, at 4:40 AM, Andreas Schneider
> > > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 
> > > You have to use a separate staff at the top for the chord symbols,
> > > which you turn into a chord staff as Richard described (from
> > > memory: Staffs > Staff Properties > Chord Staff On/Off). You enter
> > > the chords as notes (e.g. c e g for c major), yet they display as
> > > chord symbols in the print (but not in the Denemo display). If
> > > you're using a MIDI keyboard, you can use the sustain pedal for
> > > entering chords (i.e. several notes at once).
> > > 
> > > Andreas
> > > -- 
> > > Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail
> > > gesendet.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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