On 28/07/10 18:21, Mike Solomon wrote: > I'd recommend entering your lyrics like normal and using notes or > spaces in the staff. Then, do massive amounts of transparency > overrides and/or context removes. The internals reference should give > you a lead on what to turn off. Also, check out: > > staff-container.ly > staff-size.ly > > Lastly, you'd want to raise the lyrics, which can be done w/ > extra-offset (and probably other things). > > ~Mike That sounds to me like a lot of work - per piece of music!
If you're going to do that (and I don't know carnatic so I don't know whether this could work) couldn't you create a "carnatic.ly" and a carnatic "font" so you can enter your notes as normal. Then just suppress the staff so the "notes" print as notes, with the lyrics attached. Cheers, Wol > > > On 7/28/10 6:27 PM, "ananth p" <l...@beautifulnote.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been using lilypond for quite a while to typeset scores. > > I'd like to typeset Carnatic (Indian) music scores, which don't > use Staff notation system. Just text, like solfa, nevertheless > it's a music system with durations, meters, barlines etc. > > I can use the 'lyrics' part to enter my notes. No staff needed. > Now, is it possible to space and align these notes just as lily > does on staff? > > Here's a piece of example score I tried to typeset with Latex - > http://twitpic.com/2998r0/full > > Thanks for any help > > cheers, > Ananth > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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