That's what I also thought about. But making objects transparent still lets them occupy their space. This will result in a gap between the lyrics (below the staff) and the chords/frets (above the staff). If it were possible to shrink this gap to zero, using transparency would be a good solution.
When I remove the engravers, lilypond seems to behave like this: the lyrics and notes seem to keep in sync until a tie or a slur occurs. It seems to me that the notes themselves still are somehow "present" to keep the lyrics connected, but ties and slurs are ignored, the tied notes will behave like separate notes rather than "one" note. So, we now have two half-working solutions... Cheers Jürgen Nick Payne-3 wrote: > > > Why not leave the engravers there and just set everything you don't want > to transparent: > > \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t > \override Stem #'transparent = ##t > \override Dots #'transparent = ##t > \override Accidental #'transparent = ##t > \override NoteHead #'no-ledgers = ##t > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Extracting-only-lyrics-and-chords-tp16623773p30776855.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user