Re: Chord Symbols below the staff

[Steve Carlock]

Thank you!  That makes perfect sense.  I had copied and pasted the chords from a different document and overlooked the usage of \chords.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:

Hello Steve,

> I'm having an issue with most of the chord symbols (except for the No
> Chord) being displayed below the staff line.  Obviously I've messed
> something up but I have not been able to figure it out.  If someone could
> please take a look and point me in the right direction, I would appreciate
> it.

the issue here is that you are using `\chords` for this. As you can see with
`\displayLilyMusic\chords { c }` `\chords` is a shorthand for changing to
chordmode and creating a new chord name context in one go (similar to `\drums`
for `\new DrumStaff \drummode ...`).

But this means that when you do

<< \new ChordNames \chords ... \new Staff >>

this will create two ChordName contexts, and the Staff is only created then,
thus defaulting below the chord names. If instead you have

<< \new ChordNames { \global \chords ... } \new Staff ... >>

the second ChordName context is created after the Staff, thus being placed
below it.

Of course the proper solution is to replace `\chords ...` by `\chordmode ...`.

Cheers,
Valentin