Chord accompaniment in french

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> First, congratulations for your program. I used Music Time Deluxe (under 
> Windows) before, and I find yours much better, althought I use Lilypond only 
> for a month.
> 
> I'm using Lilypond 1.4.2 under Mandrake Linux 8.1 (and soon 9.1).
> 
> But I'm dealing with this problem : I'd like the chord accompaniment to 
> appear 
> with the french (or the italian) name, i.e. Do, R,bi(B, Mi, Fa Sol, La, Si, 
> instead of C, D, E, F, G, A, B. The only solution I see is to define a 
> \Lyrics and place it above the score .. is it right ?

We will add support for this shortly in 1.7, for 1.4, there should be
a german-chords.ly file, that demonstrates how to make chordnames in
different languages.

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