I am working on a Lilypond template to format jazz lead sheets so that they
resemble the formatting of the (hand written) lead sheets in the Chuck Sher
New Real Books.
I know that Lilypond is programmed to carefully place bar lines to make
classical scores look beautiful. But for the many jazz
For a certain polytonal piece, I need to display chord names of the form
"C7/F#7". That is, I need to be able to have an entire chord after the
slash, not just the root.
I already know how to modify the main part of the chord using
chExceptionMusic, like in the example code below. But I can't
Can I set ragged-bottom and ragged-last-bottom in the \layout block? Right
now they're in the \paper block, but if I move it to the \layout block, they
don't seem to have an effect. Why?
#(set-default-paper-size "letter")
\version "2.12.2"
\header {
title = "title"
}
\paper {
after-titl