Re: Just chords and lyrics.

[Jonathan Kulp]

Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> Jon,
>
> If you take away the Staff from strk's example, and do it the way I had my
> original, you'll have just what you want.
>
> The score should contain:
>
> <<
>   \new ChordNames {
>     \myChords
>   }
>   \new Devnull = "Melody" {
>     \myMelody
>   }
>   \new Lyrics {
>      \lyricsto "Melody" \myMelody
>   }
>
> Try my second example (the first one was broken).
>
> Carl 

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?

Jon
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