Roy Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi -- I intend to produce songbooks of my songs in piano/vocal format with occasional lines of guitar tablature. Is Lilypond capable of doing that?
Thank you, Roy Hi, Roy. I just finished completing a songbook of my recent CD using lilypond. I including the vocal melody with chord changes and fret diagrams and also used tablature to display fingerpicking parts and occasional guitar licks. The latest version of lilypond (2.11.xx) now supports harmonics and slides for tabluature. If you look in the back of a Hal Leonard or Mel Bay book, you will see a legend of the types of notation used within guitar tablature. Lilypond support some, but not all of these features. You have to decide how important it is to include some of these advanced featues in your notation. It is possible to fake some of these in lilypond. As far as "occasional" tablature, there are two possibilities here. One is to include, in your lilypond score, a tablature staff that will contain occasional bars of information with lots of empty bars. You can hide blank tabluature staves within lilypond so that only the staves containing information are displayed. If you do a search in the lilypond archives for "hiding empty staves", you will find the solution. Another possibility, if you wish to have a snippet of a guitar intro or lick independent of the score, is to use lilypond-book or some other layout management software to integrate different lilypond snippets into a book layout. If you wish to take a look at my songbook, go to www.jack-cooper.com/songbook and enter "guest" and "guest" as the userid and password. The songbook file is called lop_songbook.pdf. Cheers, Jack
_______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
