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--- chord_names_for_lilypond_export [2008/09/05 01:17]
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 If you want to use the default LilyPond jazz chord names in your exported LilyPond file, you need to learn the proper syntax for entering chord names.
-Firstly you need to write the pitch which is any of the letters that make up the music alphabet a-g.
+Firstly you need to write the pitch which is any of the letters that make up the music alphabet ''a'' through ''g''.
-Then you may add the sharps and flats. Rosegarden uses the standard LilyPond way of changing pitch with Dutch terms, this may confuse non-Dutch speaking users. "''is''" means sharp and "''es''" means flat. So the c-sharp will look like this - ''cis'', c-flat looks like this - ''ces''. Write it down and stick it up on your screen!
+Then you may add the sharps and flats, if needed.
+**Rosegarden** uses the standard **LilyPond** way of changing pitch with Dutch terms, this may confuse non-Dutch speaking users. "''is''" means sharp and "''es''" means flat. So a //c-sharp// will look like this - ''cis'', //c-flat// looks like this - ''ces''. Write it down and put it somewhere easy to find!
 You can make a double sharp by simply doing ''cisis'' and a double flat by ''ceses''.
 (to be continued)