Hi Amelie, > there have been various attempts to integrate Nashville Number System > support into Lilypond (see the "Nashville notation as chord symbols" > thread of June 2015 and "Nashville Number System, again" of June 2021). > > Some progress was made then, but it's never been carried through to full > support. The difficult part proved to be the Nashville-unique rhythmic > markings. > > I'm in a job situation now where I need Nashville on a daily basis (I'm > an organist at a church in the African-American tradition. This involves > being able to spontaneously transpose a song to each and every key, and > the musical material is also very rhythmic). > > I'd be more than happy to have Lilypond prepare my Nashville sheets so I > could do away with my hundreds of handwritten Nashville charts. Can you > maybe help me?
I did something for this back then (which requires some porting to modern Lilypond), but I failed to get even spacing independent of rhythm. Sadly spacing is quite complicated in Lilypond. Also that stuff was written for lilypond 2.22. Since then some things have changed, which I could more or less easily adapt until a mid 2.23 version, but then the interface for chord names was changed, which requires me rework a bigger section of the code. Which I could probably tackle at some point, but it is sadly not just a matter of adapting a few things. Cheers, Tina
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