On 19.11.2007 (00:16), Thomas Bonte wrote: > > I'm trying to create a nice Chords + Lyrics layout, formatted in the same way > as you may see on the many websites offering ascii chords and lyrics.
I seem to remember that this was discussed some time before -- you may search the list archive. What I wonder is: why do you want to use Lilypond to lay out something which is pure text? Why not just use LaTeX? There are some packages for this purpose, such as http://rath.ca/Misc/Songbook/ which seems pretty good. Or even html -- it's quite good at the job too. I say so with several years of experience with the chord sheet business. I run a website with Dylan chords (http://dylanchords.info), which has one extra feature which might interest you: a ruby program, Seal, which takes the html files as input and generates a book through LaTeX, nicely formatted and ensuring that pages are not broken between chord lines and the corresponding lyrics lines. You will find a link to Seal on the address above, and the full pdf file (3.4 Mb) on http://oestrem.com/tmp/mbpbook.pdf. The ruby script can -- with some work -- be tweaked to be applicable to other collections of html based chord sheets, as long as one uses the same css styles. Anyway this is probably making too much of it -- the LaTeX package is probably the better alternative -- I just wanted to point out the alternative. Eyolf -- Tibana was an apologist for Socratic Christianity, probably a native of IV Anbus who lived between the eight and ninth centuries before Corrino, likely in the second reign of Dalamak. Of his writings, only a portion survives from which this fragment is taken: "The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness." -- from The Dunebuk of Irulan _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
