Re: Help asked - lyrics & chords

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Christ van Willegen
<address@hidden> wrote:
> So, I created the attached file, a children's song in Dutch. The
> 'melody' is only there to specify how long the text that is added to
> the notes takes, to line it up with the chords. Is there another way
> to do that?
>
> I haven't been able to easily remove the staff that carries the
> 'melody'. Is there a better way to remove it altogether instead of
> removing all the individual engravers?

Sure!  Don't use any staff at all, just an explicit Lyrics context
with durations:

<<
  \chords {
    d1 d1
  }
  \new Lyrics \lyricmode {
    Op4 een4 gro4 -- te4 pad4 -- de4 -- stoel,2
  }
>>

explicit Lyrics durations are mentioned in Notation Reference 2.1, but
i guess the explanation is not clear enough.  Would you be so kind and
make a documentation suggestion that would show how this information
should be presented so that everyone will find it easily?

cheers,
janek