Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

[David Kastrup]

Gerry Prosser <address@hidden> writes:

> besideCN is used to display capo settings along with guitar chord
> names, but with 2.15.39 I get error message 'Unbound variable:
> $which-side'
>
> the last working score I have was compiled with 2.15.13
>
> besideCN = #(define-music-function (parser location which-side
> added-text) (integer? string?) #{\once \override ChordNames.ChordName
> #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text (markup
> #:put-adjacent 0 $which-side ; #LEFT or #RIGHT
> (ly:grob-property grob 'text) $added-text)) (ly:text-interface::print
> grob)) #})
>
> Chords = \new ChordNames \chordmode {
>   \besideCN #LEFT "Capo1 " d1 fis2:m7 b2:m e1:m7 a
> }
>
> any clues, anyone, please ?

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