For my first outing with Lilypond, I wanted to see whether I could produce sheet
music that fits this publication specification:
http://tinyurl.com/barbershop-notation-manual
Note that this document spells out exactly what is expected for this style of
music, and a full example is given at the
Hello Mark,
one first point:
to set the right margin, you have to set the line-width in the
paper-block. This is, what I include in my scores (it does not fit your
specifications, but should be adjustable):
% set the paper size
#(set-default-paper-size a4)
\paper {
% alternativly set
PM
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Subject: Using Lilypond to produce publication-ready music
For my first outing with Lilypond, I wanted to see whether I could
produce sheet
music that fits this publication specification:
http://tinyurl.com/barbershop-notation-manual
Note that this document
Hi Mark,
If anyone can offer more suggestions for developing a template that
fits this
specification and can handle all the notational elements this style
requires,
that would be great. If anyone wants to take a stab at engraving a
Lilypond
version of the sample song, and see how close we
