Re: chord durations

[David Rogers]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 17:56, Patrick Horgan<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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?


...and if this is just Christian's first project in LIlypond, chosen
because he wanted to set something that he'll use right away, that
doesn't mean this is all he'll ever use LIlypond for. Everybody has to
start somewhere, and they might as well start on something that
matters to them.

I agree that just a bare chord chart is not exactly what Lilypond was
made for in the first place, but as a place to expand from, why not?
(Except that it's inconvenient I guess)

David