Re: vim&Lilypond learning curve_jazzchord font_bars per line? 3 questions

[Tim McNamara]

On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:06 AM, LazyLew wrote:

> I have some simple questions - can't find it in the manuals so far,  
> because
> there's so much there.
>
> - is it easy to adapt fonts for chords? I like 'em bold, the way  
> you often
> see in jazz sheets.

On a Mac anything with changing fonts seems to be very hard to get  
operational.  But the default is pretty legible.  I'm sure someone  
here can provide a tweak that will produce bold fonts for the chord  
names.

> - is it easy to control the amount of measures per line? I stick to  
> 4 as
> rule of thumb as much as possible.

I put a \break after every fourth bar in the melody.

> - is the learning curve doable for a combination of vim and  
> Lilypond? I'm
> new at both, and am 53, so don't have decades left to learn.

I belong to the other religion, the Church of Emacs.  Vi(m) has its  
adherents, even though I can't understand it.  But any plain text  
editor will do, so long as it will write ASCII text and let you save  
the file with a .ly extension.