Re: proportional spacing for chords?

[Adam Spiers]

On 15 March 2017 at 12:28, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 15.03.2017 um 01:11 schrieb Adam Spiers:
>> It would be very instructive to produce a clear visualisation of the
>> harmonic variations he uses in each chorus, so I have dropped the
>> notes of the solo from the .ly file, leaving only the chords, rendered
>> in landscape, with all the choruses vertically stacked on top of each
>> other, one per line.  This should allow easy visual comparison of any
>> part of the 12-bar progression simply by scanning vertically at that
>> point within the progression.  However this vertical scan only works
>> effectively if all the choruses are vertically aligned, hence the need
>> for proportional spacing.
>
> Excuse me, but why not put all the music expressions in one score in
> parallel?

Mainly because I already had the chords as a single continuous "stream",
obtained by removing the notes and staves from the existing transcription.
And semantically it's more correct to represent it this way, rather than as
8 chord sequences which all happen in parallel.  For example a MIDI
rendering of the latter would be hopelessly wrong.  But if that's the only
way to achieve it then I'm open to the idea.

> That would be the more conventional/simpler approach to vertical
> alignment…

I'm not sure it would be more conventional bearing in mind the above,
and I'm also not sure it would be simpler given that (IIUC) it would require
8 chord sequences all happening in parallel.

But please could you give an example of how to do that, bearing in mind that
there are no notes or staves, only chord names?

Thanks!