How do I make all measures have the same width?

2010-06-09 Thread snozpacker
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

Creating chord names like C7/F#7

2010-06-09 Thread snozpacker
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

ragged-bottom doesn't work in \layout?

2010-06-09 Thread snozpacker
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