On Thu 16 Mar 2017 at 12:40:28 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Adam, > > I have tried lots of solutions for this. I am thinking this cannot be > satisfactorily done in lilypond at this time. The attached solution > works up to a point, but the chord names clash. Using really large > paper - which I also tried - to gain space such as architectural A0 > does not seem practical for a music stand, although technically it > solves the clashing problem.
But isn't that the primary aim? I just assumed that growing the paper is the same as shrinking the global score size, but a lot less bother for a proof of concept. You experts can probably push the lines of chords closer together (vertical spacing was never my forte) to produce a ribbon. Then there are plenty of tools for slicing and dicing PDFs. I use pdfjam myself; a vital tool in a country where A4 paper is virtually unknown. Perhaps SVG is a possibility. (That assumes you aren't just going to use a rolling display on a screen.) > I am not sure that it is currently entirely reasonable to expect that > chordnames can be laid out proportionally the same as notes. Perhaps a > development request? If it's easy and isn't going to involve a period when proportional gets messed up for the rest of us. But if it's difficult, aren't there more profitable developments to make to LP. We have demonstrated a methodology for achieving what the OP asked for (I think; I haven't had any feedback but it's only been 8 hours or so). There's even a second string: stack with simultaneous music. The midi is irrelevant: it's quite usual to generate midi in a separate \score. > Mr Vromans on the list has a chord chart program called playtab - > perhaps you could export something to that. It may be a case of using > the right tool for the job. (I'm ignorant about this.) > On 15 March 2017 at 11:11, Adam Spiers <lilypond-u...@adamspiers.org> wrote: > > I have a transcription of a jazz solo by John Coltrane which I made > > several years ago.[0] It contains chord symbols which I produced via > > manual analysis to match the harmony of his improvisation, rather than > > the (much simpler) chord progression of the 12-bar blues over which he > > was improvising. Therefore the chords are different for each of the 8 > > choruses of the solo. > > > > It would be very instructive to produce a clear visualisation of the > > harmonic variations he uses in each chorus, so I have dropped the > > notes of the solo from the .ly file, leaving only the chords, rendered > > in landscape, with all the choruses vertically stacked on top of each > > other, one per line. This should allow easy visual comparison of any > > part of the 12-bar progression simply by scanning vertically at that > > point within the progression. However this vertical scan only works > > effectively if all the choruses are vertically aligned, hence the need > > for proportional spacing. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
