Note Exercise, Guitar

2013-02-17 Thread pabuhr
I'm creating a simple note exercise for guitar students (see below). I have 3 problems: 1. The lyric underscores are too close to the low E so there is no room to write the note name. How do I add extra padding (spacing) between the staff and the lyrics? 2. How do I tweak the vocalName

Re: Note Exercise, Guitar

2013-02-17 Thread Eluze
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Re: Note Exercise, Guitar

2013-02-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
1. The lyric underscores are too close to the low E so there is no room to write the note name. How do I add extra padding (spacing) between the staff and the lyrics? Try : \lyricsto one \new Lyrics \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup #'nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing =

Re: Note Exercise, Guitar

2013-02-17 Thread Eluze
to stop the stanza name shifting under the first note. Eluze -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Note-Exercise-Guitar-tp141096p141102.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Note Exercise, Guitar

2013-02-17 Thread pabuhr
instead of using shortVocalName ... you could also use stanzas: Perfect! I should have seen stanza, but missed it. So below is the result. I tried to create a macro, Fred, to replace the many repeated lines, but was unsuccessful. Suggestions on how to make it work? Thanks.

Re: Note Exercise, Guitar

2013-02-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/2/18 pabuhr pab...@fastmail.fm: I tried to create a macro, Fred, to replace the many repeated lines, but was unsuccessful. Suggestions on how to make it work? Quit concise: \version 2.16.1 underscore = \markup \combine \with-color #white | _ Fred = #(define-music-function (parser