Chord_name_engraver - LilyPond program-reference
Description: LilyPond program-reference

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#### Chord_name_engraver

Catch note-events and generate the appropriate chordname.

Music types accepted:

note-event

Properties (read)

`chordChanges` (boolean)
  Only show changes in chords scheme?
`chordNameExceptions` (list)
  An alist of chord exceptions. Contains (chord . markup) entries.
`chordNameFunction` (procedure)
  The function that converts lists of pitches to chord names.
`chordNoteNamer` (procedure)
  Function that converts from a pitch object to a text markup. Used for single pitches.
`chordRootNamer` (procedure)
  Function that converts from a pitch object to a text markup. Used for chords.
`chordNameExceptions` (list)
  An alist of chord exceptions. Contains (chord . markup) entries.
`majorSevenSymbol` (markup)
  How should the major 7th be formatted in a chord name?

This engraver creates the following layout objects: ChordName.

`Chord_name_engraver` is part of contexts: ChordNames

This page is for LilyPond-2.8.8 (stable-branch).

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