Re: chords above piano staff

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Sebastian Menge <address@hidden>:

> Hi all
>
> I have a piece with a written out piano intro directly followed by a
> leadsheet with lyrics. The lower staff is only needed for the intro.
>
> Now the chords appear below both staffs in the intro, but stay there,
> when the leadsheet/with lyrics starts. Then the chords are between
> melody and lyrics instead of above as it is the case when i have only
> one staff. How can I force it to put the chords always above the piano
> staff?
>
> The layout is as follows:
>
> \new PianoStaff <<
>    \chords { ... }          % 24 bars
If you move the \chords outside the PianoStaff context, I guess
it will work as expected, i.e. something like

\score{
<<
 \chords {...}
 \new PianoStaff <<
   \new Staff = upper ...
...
 >>
> >
}

  /Mats
>    \new Staff = "upper" {
>      \upperIntro            %  8 bars
>      \melody                % 16 bars
>      }
>      \addlyrics { }
>    }
>    \new Staff = "lower" {
>      \lowerIntro            % 8 bars
>    }
> > >
>
> Thanks, Sebastian.
>
>
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