Re: Help asked - lyrics & chords

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On 30 août 2012, at 13:45, Christ van Willegen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to make a score consisting of only chords and lyrics.
> Perhaps someone would advise me to use a different program, but I
> would like to be able to scale the score to another font height
> easily. Not sure if that can be done with another program (especially
> not with a text editor, probably...)
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks for any insights! If this file were to be found
> 'snippet-ready', I'll add it to the LSR!
> 
> Christ van Willegen
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<<
  \new ChordNames \chordmode {
    \override Score . BarNumber #'transparent = ##t
    d1 d1 a1 d1
    d1 d1 a1 d1
    d1 g1 g1 d1
    d1 d1 a1 d1
  }

  \new Lyrics \lyricmode { Op4 een4 gro4 -- te4 pad4 -- de4 -- stoel,2 rood4 me
  zat4 Ka4 -- bou4 -- ter4 Spil4 -- le4 -- been2 heen4 en4 weer4 te4 wip2 -- pe
  '"Krak!"'2 zei4 de4 pad4 -- de4 -- stoel,2 met4 een4 die4 -- pe4 zucht.1
  Al4 -- le4 -- bei4 de4 been2 -- tjes,2 hoep4 -- la4 in4 de4 lucht1
}
>>

Cheers,
MS