Re: Status of lilypond for jazz charts?

2008-01-30 Thread iain duncan
On Wed, 2008-30-01 at 07:58 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Valentin, > > > is your example LSR-worthy? > > IIRC we do not have many chordnames examples currently... > > I'm putting together a complete set of chord name exceptions, which i > am hoping will be > >1. a potential replacem

Re: Status of lilypond for jazz charts?

2008-01-29 Thread iain duncan
On Tue, 2008-29-01 at 15:41 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Iain, > > > I am trying to change some chord symbols. > > Your code doesn't work because, although you correctly create the > exception list, you never explicitly \set it into the correct place > -- here's a corrected (and slight

Re: Status of lilypond for jazz charts?

2008-01-29 Thread iain duncan
On Tue, 2008-29-01 at 14:57 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Iain, > > > I'm curious to hear what the status is of lilypond for making combo > > or fake cheats. > > My last two major projects were both musicals, and they both required > "jazz charts" (i.e., with chord names). > I had no pr

Status of lilypond for jazz charts?

2008-01-29 Thread iain duncan
I'm curious to hear what the status is of lilypond for making combo or fake cheats. Are there people out there actively working on this area of lilypond or is it not a big part of the community? I did not find much in the way of online tutorials or docs, but maybe I didn't look hard enough. Last

Re: spacing between lines of a lead sheet?

2007-04-10 Thread iain duncan
On Tue, 2007-10-04 at 17:56 -0700, iain duncan wrote: > I've been trying to change various variables to no avail. If anyone can > point me at the right way to increase space between the lines of a lead > sheet given the template below ( which may well be all mucked up ... ) &

spacing between lines of a lead sheet?

2007-04-10 Thread iain duncan
I've been trying to change various variables to no avail. If anyone can point me at the right way to increase space between the lines of a lead sheet given the template below ( which may well be all mucked up ... ) that would be wonderful. =) Thanks iain \version "2.10.10" \header { title

Changing the jazz symbols?

2007-04-10 Thread iain duncan
Hi, I have figured out from the tutorial that most of what lilypond does for jazz symbols is ok, but in an ideal world for me, I would get the notation as is the case with the Real Books and Aebersold Books. ( Excellent examples of lead sheet formatting. ) If someone is able to tell me how to make

Lilypond for jazz lead sheet questions

2007-04-09 Thread iain duncan
Sorry if this has been asked a lot, but looking in the archives didn't seem like it was going to help, I did try! =) I would like to know if Lilypond allows the following for jazz lead sheets: - control over bar spacing, regardless of the note content - use of various different jazz chord symbols