Thanks for the link John. This is very interesting. I've downloaded Mup, which I think I'll be able to make good use of for several projects. Whether it will be suitable for this one I'm not yet sure of, since I need a lot of control over how the page content is laid out and styled.
Thanks, Adam On 10/08/2013 7:48 AM, john Culleton wrote: > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:43:52 -0700 > Adam <adam at photosynth.ca> wrote: > >> Good day, >> I'm working on a script for laying out a song book that includes >> lyrics and chords. Chord names need to be placed above each line of >> lyrics, at the appropriate spot in the lyrics. I've explored a >> variety of approaches to this using typographic options to try to get >> the chord letters bumped up above the lyrics line using baseline >> shift and kerning adjustments, but so far these have not proved >> effective. > > There are horses for courses. When I need to typeset music I use > Mup, a shareware program that is designed for that purpose (one > time fee of $20.) The output is postscript which can be changed > to pdf and imported into most DTP programs including Scribus. >
