Hi there!
Please have look at the attached song:
I tried to get two voices with lyrics and chords (chord names) in one
staff;
it works so far, but the chords show up between staff and lyrics
instead of above the staff.
If I try the same without lyrics, the chord names are above the staff
like
Hello Lily users,
Is it possible to ensure all measures exactly the same width
throughout a piece, *without the hidden voice workaround*?
What I'm finding is that the hidden voice workaround doesn't *exactly*
get it, especially at small staff sizes, with a large number of
measures per page, with
Sounds like what is wanted is a sort of a "snap-to-grid" feature, where
the grid is a one-dimension, uniform time (metronome time) sequence.
"Snap-to-grid" is a pretty common feature in graphic design systems, so
there ought to be some pretty good approaches to the problem in the
literature.
I took a look at your file and changed it a little. See if this is more of
what you were looking for. In the /score, I printed the chords first, then a
staff which combines both voices together, then the lyrics. I also added
/stemUp and /stemDown to your notes. This is more how I've been use
Yes, and perhaps the implementation of such a "snap-to-grid" or
"metronomic-time" or "graph-paper" spacing could simply be some
routine, call it "uniform_spacing", noticed by the Spacing_engraver
and passed to the SpacingSpanner as the value of the
"spacing-procedure":
\set SpacingSpanner '#spacin
Try opening it in wordpad once, then save it without making any changes,
close the files and open it in notepad.
Even though Wordpad is a Word Processor and not a Text Editor, when you open
a text file in it, it opens it in text mode, it won't add any unwanted
formating to the file. Still I us
This puts a bar line after every note. Correct?
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\version "2.4.6"
{\relative c''{c1 c2 c4 c8 c16 c c4 c c c}}
\layout {
raggedright = ##t
\context {
\Staff
whichBar = #"|"
}}
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- Bruce
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