Re: chord durations

[Patrick Horgan]

Tim McNamara wrote:
> 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.
I agree it would be silly to use lilypond just to generate something like:


|| C7/ / / | C / / / | C / / / | C / / / |
| F / / / | F / / / | C / / / | C / / / |
| G7 / / / | F / / / C / / / | C / / / ||

But what if it was only one of the outputs from the music, which also 
generated tab and sheet music, and midi?  While you're already using the 
data to generate the other useful forms, what you be wrong with using it 
to generate charts, which are a very commonly used thing in the jazz world?

Patrick