Re: Help with chord alignment

[Josh Lawrence]

Sven,

Thank you for your help.

To answer your question, when I say "jazz font" I am making a reference
to other notation program's inclusion of a particular font that
resembles hand-written scores.  I would like for my scores to have
this hand-written look, if possible.  But your question raises
another one for me - I do not know what feta fonts are in Lilypond, nor
how to use them.  Can you point me to a resource where I can learn
about them?  Maybe what I'm looking for is there.

Thank you,

Josh

On 10/11/05, Sven Axelsson <address@hidden> wrote:

On 11/10/05, Josh Lawrence <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello list,

I am new to Lilypond, and I am learning how to properly input information.  Currently, I am using the standard Just Friends to practice with.  From looking at other people's input files, I have been able to come up with the following partial lead sheet score:

Here are my questions:

First, my chords are not aligning up with the beginning of the bar that they apply to in the pdf output.  How can I make sure that the chords fall at the beginning of the measure?

That is because your music starts with a quarter note partial, and your chords with a semibreve. If you look at the log file you should see something like:

warning: barcheck failed at: 1/4
 s2
    | c1:maj7 | s1 | a1:m5-.7 | d1:9- |

Fix that and the alignment is fine.

Second, I would like for my chart to be 4 bars per line, "Real Book" style.  Is there a simple way that I can tell Lilypond to use 4 bars per line, and still keep a reasonable look to the score?

Insert \break where you want a new line.

Finally, is there a jazz font I can use?

Don't know, what is a jazz font? Do you need symbols not included in Lilyponds Feta fonts?

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