Re: Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players
Thank you everyone for replying on this post. I'd like to add the solution I found: ragged-right = ##t aligned it all music content. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Creating-a-nice-formatted-Chords-%2B-Lyrics-layout-for-guitar-players-tf4833989.html#a13989975 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
Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players
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. You may see my current result on this pdf file: http://www.nabble.com/file/p13829430/CL-v2.pdf CL-v2.pdf As you will notice, there is one issue I couldn't solve yet: align all content to the left side of the page. I have no clue whether this is possible, but I've noticed that there are some possibilities with using springs. If you wish to help, you can find the lilypond code in this file: http://www.nabble.com/file/p13829430/CL-v2.ly CL-v2.ly Thx! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Creating-a-nice-formatted-Chords-%2B-Lyrics-layout-for-guitar-players-tf4833989.html#a13829430 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
Re: Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players
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
Re: Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players
Thomas Bonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You may see my current result on this pdf file: http://www.nabble.com/file/p13829430/CL-v2.pdf If this is what you want to achieve, I'd suggest to take a look at the 'chords' program. (It is currently hard to find, but we're working on a new release and a new site. I can send you a copy if you like.) -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players
Hi eyolf, It is indeed already discussed before, but without proper results. The reason why we use lilypond is because I want to use the transpose functionality, in order to transpose several keys in one time using a little script. So, I don't consider this as pure text. But it's possible that this can also be achieved using LaTeX. I don't know yet. So, thanks for the links. I will check them out. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Creating-a-nice-formatted-Chords-%2B-Lyrics-layout-for-guitar-players-tf4833989.html#a13830931 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
Re: Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players
Hi Johan, I did find you personal website, which has a lot of references to several programs dealing with music (impressive list I must say), but can you point me to the 'chords' program? An url perhaps? Thx for the reply. Thomas -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Creating-a-nice-formatted-Chords-%2B-Lyrics-layout-for-guitar-players-tf4833989.html#a13833235 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
Re: Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players
Thomas Bonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did find you personal website, which has a lot of references to several programs dealing with music (impressive list I must say), but can you point me to the 'chords' program? An url perhaps? I've put a new project page for it: http://johan.vromans.org/projects/Chordie/ Please let me know your feedback! -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players
On 19.11.2007 (02:24), Thomas Bonte wrote: Hi eyolf, It is indeed already discussed before, but without proper results. The reason why we use lilypond is because I want to use the transpose functionality, in order to transpose several keys in one time using a little script. So, I don't consider this as pure text. You're right -- that might be a reason to use Lilypond. However, some of the other approaches do the same, only with much less hassle. I tried out chordpack (http://mujweb.cz/www/danielpolansky/chordpack/) which does transposition as well. GuitarTeX (http://guitartex.sourceforge.net/en/guitartex/book1.html) seems ok as well, but I haven't tried it out yet. e -- Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people into winners and losers. -Hobbes being sarcastic ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players
--- Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Bonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You may see my current result on this pdf file: http://www.nabble.com/file/p13829430/CL-v2.pdf If this is what you want to achieve, I'd suggest to take a look at the 'chords' program. (It is currently hard to find, but we're working on a new release and a new site. I can send you a copy if you like.) -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user I don't know your exact requirements, but before my discovery of lilypond, when I was looking for software to produce chords and lyrics with chord diagrams, I came across a program called SongSheet - http://www.dsbsoft.com/ Again, I don't know your requirements- this progam is Windows based, is not freeware and has a bit of an awkward interface. But it may be what you are looking for. There is a free download to try. Cheers, Jack ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
