Re: Just chords and lyrics.

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 11/26/08 9:27 PM, "Brett Duncan" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Sometimes you want this as part of a larger set of outputs, e.g. you are
> printing out parts for the vocalist, bass, sax AND the guitarist who
> just wants the lyrics and the chords (because he can't/won't read
> musical notation). It would obviously be nice to have LP generate this
> as well as the other required parts, rather than having to re-create
> work you've already done in another application.
> 
> Having said that, the output from the solutions proposed so far is
> indeed awful. The only way I have found that gives a reasonable output
> is to add the durations to the lyrics and not use the DevNull approach.

I got exactly the same output with the Devnull approach as with the
durations added to the lyrics.

%%%  Sample code, you can try it with Devnull and with durations on lyrics
\version "2.11.64"

myChords = \chordmode {
  c1 g f c
}

myMelody = {
  c2 c4 c4 |
  c4 c c c |
  c4 c c c |
  c2 c
}

myLyrics = \lyricmode {
  Hi there let's |
  have fun with this |
  Here we have fun |
  don't we
}

durationLyrics = \lyricmode{
  Hi2 there4 let's |
  have4 fun with this |
  Here4 we have fun |
  don't2 we
}


<<
  \new ChordNames {
    \myChords
  }
%   \new Devnull = "myVoice" \myMelody
  \new Lyrics {
    \durationLyrics
%     \lyricsto "myVoice" \myLyrics
   }
>>


%%% End of sample code

I can't see any difference at all in the output of the two approaches.

Are you doing something different?  If so, I'd really like to see it.

Thanks,

Carl