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Re: Lyrics & Chords sheet


From: Peter Crighton
Subject: Re: Lyrics & Chords sheet
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:27:48 +0100

2014-11-17 0:29 GMT+01:00 <address@hidden>:
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Crighton <address@hidden> writes:

Peter> Hello all, I’m in the process of creating sheets that only
Peter> contain lyrics and correctly aligned chords. (This belongs to
Peter> other sheets with music in them, otherwise LilyPond probably
Peter> wouldn’t be the ideal choice for this.  But I want to do these
Peter> all together in LilyPond.)  I have two approaches so far, and
Peter> none of them are ideal …


You can use explicit durations on the lyrics and the chords.

Something like:

accomp=\chords {
  c4 c c c:7 f f c c
}

words=\lyricmode {
  Twinkle2 twinkle little star
}

\score {
  <<
    \context ChordNames \accomp
    \context Lyrics \words
  >>

  \layout {
    \context {
      \ChordNames
      chordChanges = ##t
    }
  }
}

Hi Peter,

using \lyricmode gives me very badly aligned lyrics with differing amounts of space between the words. After all I want them to be printed as continuous text, so a markup would be my best choice, I guess.
But thanks for the suggestion!

--
Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany
http://www.petercrighton.de


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