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I'm getting started using lilyjazz to write Jazz-styled music. I'd like to get the Realbook-like notation that I'm used to featuring a triangle to denote a major seven.

the jazzchords.ily stylesheet comes in pretty handy, but I'm struggling to find a proper substitution for the "M":

% for major chords, use "acMaj" to print a small "M"
#(define-markup-command (acMaj layout props extension) (string?)
  (interpret-markup layout props
    (markup #:super "M" #:super extension)))

Any suggestions?

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  • I don't know lilyjazz. It looks like a programming language (interesting). Is there a manual with character definitions? If not I'd recommend you look at unicode characters. This handles Greek characters, so you can get a capital delta, which is a triangle. If lilyjazz is unicode compatible that would do it.
    – user50691
    Jul 7, 2018 at 0:51
  • By the way, unicode for cap delta is U+0394. try it and see what you get, there are other codes of this. I can direct you to more. But google unicode and find the website for it.
    – user50691
    Jul 7, 2018 at 0:52

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There doesn't seem to be a triangle figure in the lilyjazz fonts, so following ggcg's comments, you could try altering jazzchords.ily to have instead:

% for major chords, use "acMaj" to print a small triangle
#(define-markup-command (acMaj layout props extension) (string?)
  (interpret-markup layout props
    (markup #:super #:char 916 #:super extension)))

Whether this mix of Unicode with the lilyjazz font is aesthetically superior is up to you.

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    thank you, that works. Too bad the font does not yet contain the triangle
    – Bastian
    Jul 26, 2018 at 20:13

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