Re: A title with a transposing note name

[Thomas Morley]

2015-10-13 10:50 GMT+02:00 Michael Gerdau <address@hidden>:
>> Yes, that is what I said: "while my version has it inside and this
>> causes an error",
>> The error message suggests putting it in a \layout block, but that also
>> is an error.
>> I can't help thinking that there must be something much simpler some
>> sort of music function that takes a note name (as a music e.g.
>> \transpose f g {cis}) and generates a markup (or rather whatever would
>> be valid inside \markup).
>
> I would expect that you can specifically override the font for the
> ChordNames. It has a font-family property. However I have no idea
> how that can be achieved. Namely I don't know which particular
> incantation needs to be invoked.
>
> I'd expect something along the line
> \version "2.19.25"
>
> \header {
>  title = \markup {Sonata in\score {
>  \new ChordNames { f' }
>  \layout{indent=0.0
>  \set ChordNames.font-family = "Times New Roman"
> }
>  but that doesn't do the trick.
>
> Or something like (in the above):
> ...
>  title = \markup {Sonata in\override some-property \roman \score {
> ...
>
> But again I did not find a working solution.
>
> Kind regards,
> Michael


Try:

\new ChordNames { \override ChordName.font-name = "Purisa" f' }

With "Times New Roman" there is a problem, for more info search the bug-tracker.
Use "Times New Roman," instead.

 Cheers,
  Harm