RE: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2011-01-27 Thread James Lowe
Subject: Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords > > It sounds like you're using the 2.12 documentation. The 2.13 documentation > has a much more elegant solution, which should work, albeit, you'll likely > have to re-format how your lyrics are entered. See the sectio on man

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2011-01-27 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 27, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Jürgen Ibelgaufts wrote: > > Hello, thanks for jumping in. > > Devnull was new to me. I tried, and the notes are invisible, leaving no gap. > Very fine so far. But every single syllable leads to a warning "lyric > syllable does not have note" and the lyrics still ar

RE: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2011-01-27 Thread James Lowe
Jurgen, > -Original Message- > From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of Jürgen Ibelgaufts > Sent: 27 January 2011 14:24 > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: RE: Extra

RE: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2011-01-27 Thread Jürgen Ibelgaufts
Hello, thanks for jumping in. Devnull was new to me. I tried, and the notes are invisible, leaving no gap. Very fine so far. But every single syllable leads to a warning "lyric syllable does not have note" and the lyrics still are out of sync. Some syllables even get completely lost. Either ties

RE: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2011-01-27 Thread James Lowe
Hello, > -Original Message- > From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of Jürgen Ibelgaufts > Sent: 27 January 2011 12:32 > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Extra

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2011-01-27 Thread Jürgen Ibelgaufts
That's what I also thought about. But making objects transparent still lets them occupy their space. This will result in a gap between the lyrics (below the staff) and the chords/frets (above the staff). If it were possible to shrink this gap to zero, using transparency would be a good solution.

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2011-01-27 Thread Nick Payne
On 27/01/11 18:57, Jürgen Ibelgaufts wrote: Hello Brett and everybody, Just running into the same problem, making the notes invisible by removing the appropriate engravers seems to REMOVE the notes instead of hiding them. Lilypond gives a warning for every single syllable that there is no note t

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2011-01-26 Thread Jürgen Ibelgaufts
Hello Brett and everybody, Just running into the same problem, making the notes invisible by removing the appropriate engravers seems to REMOVE the notes instead of hiding them. Lilypond gives a warning for every single syllable that there is no note to associate it to. Line breaks still work, bu

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2008-04-12 Thread Brett Duncan
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Why not read the section called "Lyrics independent of notes" in the manual? /Mats This came tantalisingly close to giving me a solution; the catch was that the ties and slurs in the melody were ignored or lost and the alignment of the lyrics against the chords went

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2008-04-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not read the section called "Lyrics independent of notes" in the manual? /Mats Quoting "James E. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Ah, then you just need a voice without the staff and its engravers. I would look at the snippet that adds all the engravers one by one, because it will have ev

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2008-04-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Ah, then you just need a voice without the staff and its engravers. I would look at the snippet that adds all the engravers one by one, because it will have everything already removed, and you can just add what you need. Am 11.04.2008 um 09:50 schrieb Brett Duncan: James E. Bailey wrote:

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2008-04-11 Thread Thomas Bonte
You may want to have a look at an old post about http://www.nabble.com/Creating-a-nice-formatted-Chords-%2B-Lyrics-layout-for-guitar-players-to13829430.html#a13829430 Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players . Look especially at the layout part, which will render the s