Re: musicxml2ly

[Colin Hall]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:42:09AM +0200, pls wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:33:09AM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> >>>>> The good news is that in many cases only a little editing of
> >>>>> the .ly file is required to turn a bad conversion into a good
> >>>>> one. For example, all lead sheets from Wikifonia that I have
> >>>>> tried have the Chords printed below instead of above the
> >>>>> staff.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I remember this had been fixed in one of the previous lilypond
> >>>> 2.15.x versions, but with musicxml2ly from Lilypond 2.15.37 I am
> >>>> still (again?) having this problem.
> >>> 
> >>> Same with 2.15.38
> >> 
> >> I did not see a reaction to this question, so I try again. What
> >> happened with this musicxml2ly bug ? First chords were printed below
> >> the staff, then I think it was fixed, and now the chords are below
> >> the staff again. Regression?
> >
>
> It's not a regression. It has never been officially fixed. A while
> ago I posted a bug report and a minimal example:
> http://old.nabble.com/musicxml2ly%3A-chordnames-placement-bug-td33309393.html.

Thanks, that's exactly what I was after.

> Here is a solution for the chord symbol bug:
> http://codereview.appspot.com/5697059/. I still haven't found the
> time to tidy up the patch. But it works!

I've created a tracker for this issue:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2537

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall