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ChordNames

Typesets chord names. Can contain ChordNamesVoice contexts.

This context creates the following grobs: ChordName, SeparatingGroupSpanner, SeparationItem and VerticalAxisGroup.This context is a `bottom' context; it can not contain other contexts.

This context is built from the following engravers:

Engraver_group_engraver

A group of engravers taken together

Engraver_group_engraver is part of contexts: Lyrics, ChoirStaff, LyricsVoice, PianoStaff, GrandStaff, Thread, RhythmicStaff, Voice, Staff, ChordNames, StaffContainer, InnerStaffGroup, InnerChoirStaff, NoteNames and StaffGroup

Skip_req_swallow_translator

Skip_req_swallow_translator is part of contexts: Voice and ChordNames

Chord_name_engraver

Catch Note_req's, Tonic_reqs, Inversion_reqs, Bass_req and generate the appropriate chordname.

Properties

chordChanges (boolean):

Only show changes in chords scheme?

Chord_name_engraver is part of contexts: ChordNames

Separating_line_group_engraver

Generates objects for computing spacing parameters.

This engraver creates the following grobs: SeparatingGroupSpanner and SeparationItem.

Separating_line_group_engraver is part of contexts: LyricsVoice, RhythmicStaff, Staff, ChordNames and NoteNames

Output_property_engraver

Interpret Music of Output_property type, and apply a function to any Graphic objects that satisfies the predicate.

Output_property_engraver is part of contexts: Grace, Thread, RhythmicStaff, Voice, Staff, Score, ChordNames, InnerStaffGroup and StaffGroup

Property_engraver

This is a engraver that converts property settings into back-end grob-property settings. Example: Voice.stemLength will set #'length in all Stem objects.

Due to CPU and memory requirements, the use of this engraver is deprecated.

Properties

Generic_property_list (list):

description of the conversion.

Defines names and types for generic properties. These are properties than can be plugged into the backend directly. See the init file generic-property.scm for details. For internal use only, deprecated.

Property_engraver is part of contexts: Lyrics, PianoStaff, GrandStaff, Grace, Thread, RhythmicStaff, Voice, Staff and ChordNames

Axis_group_engraver

Group all objects created in this context in a VerticalAxisGroup spanner.

Properties

VerticalExtent (pair of numbers):

hard coded vertical extent. The format is a pair of dimensions, for example, this sets the sizes of a staff to 10 (5+5) staffspaces high.

property Staff.VerticalExtent = #(-5.0 . 5.0)

VerticalExtent, MinimumVerticalExtent and ExtraVerticalExtent are predefined in all relevant contexts to #f, so they will not inherit values.

Note that these VerticalExtents can only operate on vertical groups, and therefore only work in contexts which contain an Axis_group_engraver.

MinimumVerticalExtent (pair of numbers):

minimum vertical extent, same format as VerticalExtent

ExtraVerticalExtent (pair of numbers):

extra vertical extent, same format as MinimumVerticalExtent

Axis_group_engraver is part of contexts: Lyrics, LyricsVoice, RhythmicStaff, Staff, ChordNames, StaffContainer and NoteNames

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