On Sep 2, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote:
Tim McNamara wrote:
On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Christian Henning wrote:
Am I right, that lilypond is rarely used for my type of notation?
Meaning rock/pop tunes for acoustic guitar.
No, the style of music makes no difference. But LilyPond is
intended for engraving music which is fundamentally based upon
notes on the staff, and you seem to be just writing out chord
progressions without a melody. LilyPond is really not designed
for this. If you were writing in the melody with the chords above
the staff, many of your problems would be resolved. I think that
what you are trying to do is to write out lead sheets,
No he's writing chord charts--pretty common for guitarists.
I am a guitarist.
If all he wants is a chord chart, some paper and a pencil would be a
better approach. Or even a word processor two write out the chords
like Ralph Patt did with the Vanilla Book.
http://www.ralphpatt.com/VBook.html
Christian's trying to do something LilyPond is not designed to do
when what he really needs is a lead sheet, if he wants to use
LilyPond without a lot of kerfuffling around. I've sent him
information about this back-channel.
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