Re:roman numeral chord notation

[Kevin Patrick Barry]

Dear Eric,

I don't get what you're trying to do in your example.  It looks like you're trying to invoke the \rN outside of a markup context.  It's best used in a lyrics context or as markup attached to a note (there don't seem to be any in your example).

And Roman numeral notation in LaTeX is easy with math mode:

V$^4_3$

should do the trick.

I hope this helps,

Kevin Barry

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:01:23 -0800
From: Eric Swenson <address@hidden>
To: David Nalesnik <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: roman numeral chord notation
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Thanks David.

This appears to work fine when adding markup to a staff (as in annotating
below the staff).  However, I'm trying to reference chords using this
notation in text, in a music theory discussion regarding chord resolution.
 Since this isn't within lilypond markup, I don't think I can use this.

I tried the obvious in my .lytex file:

\lilypondfile[quote,noindent]{rN.ly}

\begin[fragment,quote,staffsize=26,verbatim]{lilypond}
  \rN { V 4/3 }
\end{lilypond}

As well as preceeding the \rN with \markup, and both result in errors such
as:

lilypond-book --output=out --pdf bar.lytex
lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.16.2
Reading bar.lytex...
Running `pdflatex' on file
`/var/folders/4m/_ndvz2k14wj63vptwlb4fs740000gn/T/tmpg_VEGR.tex' to detect
default page settings.

Dissecting...
Writing snippets...
Processing...
Running lilypond...
GNU LilyPond 2.16.2
Processing `snippet-map--2975239498719330227.ly'
Parsing...
Processing `bar.lytex'
Parsing...
bar.lytex:29:2: error: unknown escaped string: `\rN'

  \rN { V 4/3 }
bar.lytex:29:2: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING

  \rN { V 4/3 }
bar.lytex:21:0: error: errors found, ignoring music _expression_

{
fatal error: failed files: "ee/lily-62b9e5aa.ly"

Any suggestions?  Or should I just try to figure out the
superscript-subscript tex macros to make this work?  Thanks.

-- Eric