Re: chords as roman numerals?

[Mats Bengtsson]

The reason for the misalignment is that Lilypond tries to calculate
the width of each syllable but fails when it encounters the extra
TeX code. You might get better alignment if you say $V_7$ but then
you get the 'V' in italics. You could also try to play with the
alignment property, see the example file input/regression/lyric-align.ly
at http://lilypond.org/stable/input/regression/out-www/regression.html
Note that the naming of the LyricsVoice and music Voice contexts
have to match, see 
http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/Lyric_phrasing_engraver.html

  /Mats


Michael Vanier wrote:
> Your second suggestion (putting the text into lyrics mode) works quite
> well.  The only problem is that the text is not aligned correctly for
> chords with subscripts and superscripts.  With a "I" chord the "I" lines up
> with the note, but with a "V_7" chord the "7" lines up with the note.
> Oddly enough "IV" chords work fine; the note lines up to the point between
> the "I" and the "V".  Similarly, "V7" lines up correctly.  Is this a bug?
> Is there a way to control this?
>
> Mike
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 11:36:16 +0200
> > From: Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>
> >
> > If you only wanted numbers and accidentals, you could have used the
> > support for figured bass (see the reference manual). However, for
> > your needs, I would recommend to typeset them using ordinary text 
> > markup, which also is well described in the manual. The disadvantage
> > is that the different chord indications will not be aligned vertically.
> > If you want them vertically aligned, you could typeset as a lyrics line.
> > But then you would have to say something like V$_7$ to get the subscripts,
> >
> >    /Mats
> >
> > Michael Vanier wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I've been scouring the Lilypond
> > > documentation and the mailing lists and I can't find an answer to this
> > > question.  How do I print chords as roman numerals e.g. I, V_7, I_6_4
> > > (where the _ means "subscript")?  I want to do this in a piano score, with
> > > the chords appearing below the staves.  I'm willing to enter the chord
> > > numerals explicitly; I don't expect lilypond to deduce them for me ;-)
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > >
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        Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463                         
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