Re: Lead sheets: lyrics and chords, no melody?

Hi Christopher, > I am committed to the principle of single-source authoring in my textual and > musical worlds. +1 For archive completeness, I’ve included (below) the example I am playing with — it’s still in progress, but it’s nearly there — which clearly allows single-source authoring. Be

Re: Lead sheets: lyrics and chords, no melody?

On 3/3/19 2:34 PM, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: Why not just use MS Word or Latex ? If you don't need musical notation, why use a music notation program ? I have the songs fully scored out in LilyPond. My guitarist is scared by the lines and dots, so I want to give him a simple lead sheet — withou

Re: Lead sheets: lyrics and chords, no melody?

On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 11:05 PM Christopher R. Maden wrote: > > I’d like to produce what he’s used to: lyrics with chords above them. Why not just use MS Word or Latex ? If you don't need musical notation, why use a music notation program ? ___ lilypon

Re: Lead sheets: lyrics and chords, no melody?

Hi Christopher, > I’ve trawled the internals pretty extensively at this point, and this is > probably close enough for my guitarist, but any further pointers on the > spacing would be most welcome. I believe the spacing issues are better handled by the solution in the thread(s) I linked to ear

Re: Lead sheets: lyrics and chords, no melody?

On 3/3/19 12:40 AM, Aaron Hill wrote: It is a messy hack, but here is something: [...] My goal was to leave the lead sheet snippet from the docs intact and do everything with \layout. There are probably other grobs that will need \omitting depending on your music. Spacing will almost certai

Re: Lead sheets: lyrics and chords, no melody?

Hi there! > I’d like to produce what he’s used to: lyrics with chords above them. […] > I’m groveling through the internals reference now, but maybe someone has a > snippet to share? Maybe there’s something helpful in or <

Re: Lead sheets: lyrics and chords, no melody?

On 2019-03-02 9:40 pm, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2019-03-02 8:51 pm, Christopher R. Maden wrote: I’d like to produce what he’s used to: lyrics with chords above them. (See _Rise Up Singing_ or a thousand other songbooks for examples.) I have many songs set in LilyPond already, with chords and lyrics

Re: Lead sheets: lyrics and chords, no melody?

On 2019-03-02 8:51 pm, Christopher R. Maden wrote: I have a guitarist who is afraid of written music. (That is a conversation for another day — suffice to say, I’m working on it.) I’d like to produce what he’s used to: lyrics with chords above them. (See _Rise Up Singing_ or a thousand other so

Lead sheets: lyrics and chords, no melody?

I have a guitarist who is afraid of written music. (That is a conversation for another day — suffice to say, I’m working on it.) I’d like to produce what he’s used to: lyrics with chords above them. (See _Rise Up Singing_ or a thousand other songbooks for examples.) I have many songs set in