#3909 a feature to disable the chord root name printing - just print the slash and inversion

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: *anonymous

Originally created by: pkx1...@gmail.com

On 01/05/14 03:57, Henrik Pitkala wrote:
>> I'm not top posting
>
> I'd like a feature to disable the chord root name printing, and just print
> the slash and the inversion. The rationale for this request is a more
> compact chord line.
>
> \version "2.19.6"
> \chordmode {
>     c c/e c/g
> }
>
> Current output:
>   C  C/e  C/g
>
> Desired possibility:
>   C  /e  /g
>
> Suggestion for the command to achieve this:
> \set chordRepeatRootNote = ##f
>
> There's an LSR snippet over here but it's way too tedious to use in normal use:
> http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=776

[Google Importer]

Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com

On 01/05/14 14:15, David Nalesnik wrote:

I found another workaround here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user%40gnu.org/msg67087.html

[Thomas Morley]

Other workaround here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-03/msg00781.html
using an engraver comparing chord-pitches.
Limitation: does not work for inversions, only for additional bass notes.

Does not work:
\new ChordNames \chordmode { c c/e c/g }

Works:
\new ChordNames \chordmode { c c/+e c/+g }