Experiment with an Alternative Notation for learning Guitar music

[Philip Rhoades]

People,

I have used this script:

\version "2.18.0"

\new Staff \with {

  % remaps pitches on the staff to semitones / chromatic scale
  staffLineLayoutFunction = #ly:pitch-semitones

  % reconfigures line pattern of staff
%  \override StaffSymbol #'line-positions = #'( -1 2 5 8 )
  \override StaffSymbol #'line-positions =
      #'( -2 1 4 7 10 )   % 3 main lines - GOOD
%       #'(    1 4 7 10 ) % Lilypond putting dashes in the wrong place

  % keep stems from extending too far
  \override Stem #'no-stem-extend = ##t

  % remove accidentals and clefs
  \remove Accidental_engraver

} {

  % enter notes here
  \relative {
    e f fis g gis a ais b c cis d dis e
  }
}


The first line spacing looks OK but I want to stack clefs and so I want 
to have the top and bottom notes (ie the "middle" notes between clefs) 
on short lines but Lilypond changes the line spacing when I use the 
second line spacing above ie in this example the distance between the 
short dashed lines that Lilypond puts on the low E and F are are 
narrower than the long line spacing.  I am new to Lilypond so I guess 
there is something obvious I need to do?

Thanks,

Phil.
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