Re: Just chords and lyrics.

[Jonathan Kulp]

Brett Duncan wrote:
> Jonathan Kulp wrote:
>
> > Yes, this works, but it only confirms my belief that someone who wants 
> > this really would be better off with a word processor or GuitarTeX.  
> > The spacing looks awful without a staff, not at all the sort of thing 
> > you normally see in a songbook of this type.  (If the staff is 
> > present, at least the spacing makes sense because you can see where 
> > the words are supposed to fall inside the measures.)  The output of 
> > GuitarTeX looks exactly like a lyrics/chordnames songsheet is supposed 
> > to look, so I would recommend pointing people to that instead of 
> > trying to make Lilypond do it.  Maybe we should put an example in the 
> > docs anyway, though.  I suppose at the very least it would show people 
> > how to do it and it wouldn't come up on the list anymore (or we'd have 
> > a place to direct them when it did).  Maybe we could do one example 
> > with a blank staff and one without any staff at all?
> >
> > Jon
>
> Sometimes you want this as part of a larger set of outputs, e.g. you are 
> printing out parts for the vocalist, bass, sax AND the guitarist who 
> just wants the lyrics and the chords (because he can't/won't read 
> musical notation). It would obviously be nice to have LP generate this 
> as well as the other required parts, rather than having to re-create 
> work you've already done in another application.
>
> Having said that, the output from the solutions proposed so far is 
> indeed awful. The only way I have found that gives a reasonable output 
> is to add the durations to the lyrics and not use the DevNull approach.
>
> Brett

This is certainly a good reason to use Lilypond for it. Do you have a 
brief example that shows how you do it?  Maybe it would be a good one 
for the documentation.  Best,

Jon
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