⌂ Function to create WYGIWYM-Chord Names

This function is an update to an earlier version which can be found here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-02/msg00293.html

The function is customised to work with a special font which can also be found in the above link. It shouldn't be too difficult to get the function to work with other fonts.

I created this function because the internal ChordNames context generates chord symbols only by chord entry ( <c e g> ) which often leads to misinterpretation and strange chord symbols are the result.

What this function basically does is taking note-input and converting it to a lyric-context. For example c-"7" will print C7 chord symbol.

The advantage of this function is that the input can still be transposed before it gets converted, i.e. \transpose c d c-"7" will print D7 chord symbol.

The following entries are possible:

c

→ C

c-"7"

→ C7

<c e>

→ C/E

<c e>-"7"

→ C7/E

r

→ N.C.

s

→

s-"text"

→ text [not affected by transposition]

and these three additional functions work with any of the above (except for skip)

\parenLeft c

→ (C

\parenRight c

→ C)

\parenBoth c

→ (C)