All: I would like to use Lilypond to generate sheet music that can best be described as having 2 distinct and independent sections. The first - and upper section - is simply a list of chords used in the song along with fretboard diagrams. The second - lower part - is similar to a lead sheet with chord names above the staff and rather than pitches in the staff slashes indicating the beats on which there is a chord change. A rough example (less the slashes can be found here: http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/scorchVPE.asp?ppn=SC0009216
I've played around with Lilypond and have made some progress. I can generate the chord listing section by creating a compound music expression consisting of a ChordName context, a staff with staff, clef and time symbols turned off and a Voice context containing the fret diagrams. However, I can't figure out the second section. Specifically: * How do I generate the second section so that it is independent of the first - in other words, how do I prevent Lilypond from trying to synchronize the top part with the bottom part? Do I have multiple Score contexts? Or is ther a way I can do that within a single Score context (a brief Lilypond example would be most helpful) * If I have a pickup beat, how do I prevent Lilypond from trying to place a chord identifier above that pickup beat? * How do I create slashes indicating the beat on which the chord changes. For example, how do I tell Lilypond that an Em starts on beat 1 and changes to D on beat 3? Thanks in advance for the assist -steve _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user