Re: Just chords and lyrics.

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 11/26/08 7:15 PM, "Jonathan Kulp" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
>> Jon,
> 
> Yes, this works, but it only confirms my belief that someone who wants
> this really would be better off with a word processor or GuitarTeX.  The
> spacing looks awful without a staff, not at all the sort of thing you
> normally see in a songbook of this type.  (If the staff is present, at
> least the spacing makes sense because you can see where the words are
> supposed to fall inside the measures.)  The output of GuitarTeX looks
> exactly like a lyrics/chordnames songsheet is supposed to look, so I
> would recommend pointing people to that instead of trying to make
> Lilypond do it.  Maybe we should put an example in the docs anyway,
> though.  I suppose at the very least it would show people how to do it
> and it wouldn't come up on the list anymore (or we'd have a place to
> direct them when it did).  Maybe we could do one example with a blank
> staff and one without any staff at all?

That probably makes sense.  When I just wanted chords and lyrics, I used
GuitarTex.  

But LilyPond is transposable, and GuitarTex is not; one of the things I
really like about LilyPond is that I can transpose songs automatically.

I guess we should at least show the best we can do in the docs (and maybe
even have a reference to some of the other programs that can be used for
chords and lyrics).

Carl