For laying out music, and making it look VERY professional, you might consider Lilypond:
http://www.lilypond.org/ It is free. Murray ________________________________ From:(John Culleton To: scribus at lists.scribus.net Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:35:22 PM On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:43:52 -0700 Adam <adam at photosynth.ca> wrote: > Good day, > I'm working on a script for laying out a song book that includes > lyrics and chords. Chord names need to be placed above each line of > lyrics, at the appropriate spot in the lyrics. I've explored a > variety of approaches to this using typographic options to try to get > the chord letters bumped up above the lyrics line using baseline > shift and kerning adjustments, but so far these have not proved > effective. There are horses for courses. When I need to typeset music I use Mup, a shareware program that is designed for that purpose (one time fee of $20.) The output is postscript which can be changed to pdf and imported into most DTP programs including Scribus. -- John Culleton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20130811/cac25dc4/attachment.html>
