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From: | Marco Baumgartner |
Subject: | Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font) |
Date: | Thu, 4 Jul 2019 00:12:15 +0200 |
On 2019-07-03 10:40 am, Marco Baumgartner wrote:
> One thought though: As far as I understand it: displaying chords within
> Lilypond is not done with/by a "normal" font but rather a special
> chord-mechanism. I fear, that this mechanism (as far I've seen) does a
> good
> job, but can also be seen as a limitation. How wrong would it be to
> create
> a normal font (with tons of ligatures) which I could use as
> info/comments/_expression_ - NOT in Chord-mode to display chords? I feel
> like
> that would be the only way that leads to perfect chord symbols. Or am I
> completely out? :-)
A ChordName is nothing more than markup at the end of the day. Since
the default stencil is ly:text-interface::print, anything you can do in
\markup you can do in a ChordName. That gives you nearly all the
freedom you would ever need, so there should be nothing to worry.
-- Aaron Hill
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