Double Staff Tablature - No Stems is the Norm

Hi, In the guitar section of the manual, all the examples of tab have stems with the numbers. In double staff guitar tab, where you have notation on top and tab below, this is rarely if ever seen. It is usually only the numbers on the tab staff. So my questions are ... 1.) Is it possible to re

Downstroke and Upstroke symbol for guitar

Hi, Is it possible to insert downstroke and upstroke strum symbols with Lilypond? thanks, jc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Downstroke-and-Upstroke-symbol-for-guitar-tf3946887.html#a11196283 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Trying to do a template

Version 2.6.3 I tried section 9.1.5, and I have tried about 30 variations of something similar to what they have in that section with no luck... Here is one unsuccessful try...  it must be that I am really missing some main concept of Lilypond? \layout {         \context         {            

Trying to do a template

Hi, I am trying my first template and things aren't working out... I make a template called blankchords, but it I get an error. what's wrong here... thanks joey blankchords = \new ChordNames \with { \override BarLine #'bar-size = #4 voltaOnThisStaff = ##t \consists Bar_engraver \consist

Re: Chord Chart - no lines

Thanks Mats, that makes sense... I had just copied the original from the documentation, and it has the \repeat outside of \chordmode... thanks, joey Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: Chord Chart - no lines

The solution for the bar line only works well with one line of music... if the chord progression is long enough to go to the second line, then things get messed up... but I found I can just repeat the whole structure again like below...  my question is...  Why do you have to repeat the \new ChordN

Re: Chord Chart - no lines

Thanks Mats, I've included my resulting working update to the example with all your instructions so others in the future can see... cheers, joey \new ChordNames \with { \override BarLine #'bar-size = #4 voltaOnThisStaff = ##t \consists Bar_engraver \consists "Volta_engraver" \consists "Per

Re: : Unbound variable:

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Chord Chart - no lines

This example from the docs does what I want... It prints a chord chart with just Bar Lines, and the chord symbols...  but I would like to modify it... 1.)  I would like to add a bar line at the beginning measure 2.)  How can I add more than one chord per measure 3.)  How would I add the measure r

: Unbound variable:

Hi, What does this error mean? Parsing...: In _expression_ ?bar-size: : Unbound variable: ?bar-size I get it when I try to compile the following \new ChordNames \with { \override BarLine #?bar-size = #4 voltaOnThisStaff = ##t \consists Bar_engraver \consists "Volta_engraver" } \repeat vo