Re: fret diagrams with no staffs

[Carl Sorensen]

On 10/31/13 8:47 AM, "Renato" <address@hidden> wrote:

>However I have not been able to (due to my superficial knowledge of
>lilypond and snippets dealing with "chord diagrams over a
>staff" scenario):
>1) use fret-diagram-details to set the various parameters it offers. It
>would be best to set this once and for all instead of for every single
>chord

For \markup fret diagrams, you override the fret-diagram-details property
of a TextScript object (see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/fretted-strings
Customizing markup fret diagrams):

\override TextScript  #'(fret-diagram-details . (
                   (finger-code . below-string)
                   (number-type . arabic)
                   (label-dir . -1)
                   (mute-string . "M")
                   (orientation . landscape)
                   (barre-type . none)
                   (xo-font-magnification . 0.4)
                   (xo-padding . 0.3)))


>2) Display names on top of chords

For this, you probably don't want to use \markup fret diagrams.

You probably just want to create a score with a ChordNames context and a
FretBoards context, as is demonstrated in
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-f
retted-strings#predefined-fret-diagrams>  :

\include "predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly"
mychords = \chordmode{
  c1 f g
}

<<
  \context ChordNames {
    \mychords
  }
  \context FretBoards {
    \mychords
  }
>>



Hope this helps,

Carl