Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 15:09 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> You may wish to take a look at the playtab program.
> >
> > What LilyPond (& Denemo) can bring to the party is transposition,
> > playback, adding (non-printing) drum tracks, using the same music for a
> > lead sheet and a wealth of other stuff - dynamics, repeat bars etc.
> 
> Playtab can handle transposition, and (the development version) is
> capable of producing playback data for ChordBot and iRealB. These tools
> do a much better job than I intend to do.
> 
> In general, when you have a LilyPond score with chords, you can cut/past
> the chords into playtab and it should require just a couple of minor
> tweaks to get it going. That was the whole idea behing implementing
> LilyPond chords syntax.

That sounds great - though the output looks a bit sparse for a tiny
screen, but I guess people could work on that if they wanted to go with
playtab.
> 
> Anyway, playtab suits me and several others. Feel free to join the 
> party :).

Well, it is not for me - I can't tell a 9sus4 from a dim7 - but I'll
certainly pass on the link to my correspondents.

Richard