Brett Duncan wrote:
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
This is certainly a good reason to use Lilypond for it. Do you have a
brief example that shows how you do it? Maybe it would be a good one
for the documentation. Best,
Jon
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