Jonathan Kulp wrote:
Yes, this works, but it only confirms my belief that someone who wants
this really would be better off with a word processor or GuitarTeX. The
spacing looks awful without a staff, not at all the sort of thing you
normally see in a songbook of this type. (If the staff is present, at
least the spacing makes sense because you can see where the words are
supposed to fall inside the measures.) The output of GuitarTeX looks
exactly like a lyrics/chordnames songsheet is supposed to look, so I
would recommend pointing people to that instead of trying to make
Lilypond do it. Maybe we should put an example in the docs anyway,
though. I suppose at the very least it would show people how to do it
and it wouldn't come up on the list anymore (or we'd have a place to
direct them when it did). Maybe we could do one example with a blank
staff and one without any staff at all?
Jon
Sometimes you want this as part of a larger set of outputs, e.g. you are
printing out parts for the vocalist, bass, sax AND the guitarist who
just wants the lyrics and the chords (because he can't/won't read
musical notation). It would obviously be nice to have LP generate this
as well as the other required parts, rather than having to re-create
work you've already done in another application.
Having said that, the output from the solutions proposed so far is
indeed awful. The only way I have found that gives a reasonable output
is to add the durations to the lyrics and not use the DevNull approach.
Brett
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