Re: Leadsheet for voice and ukulele

[Valentin Petzel]

Hello Helge,

First at all congratulations for your first score.

→ The no string for pitch warnings come from Lilypond not knowing you have an 
Ukulele. Lilypond takes the Fretboard configurations for a chord from a table, 
which by default has guitar chords. The error just says that there are notes 
for which no strings exist to play them. Use
\include "predefined-ukulele-fretboards.ly"
To include the default set of Ukulele chords, or create your own table.

→ The only real way to do the sus thing would be changing the 
chordNameFunction. It wouldn’t be particularly hard to change the current 
implementation to take a Context Property to specify this text.

→ For the distance: If you place the Lyrics into a Lyrics context, you can 
specify the padding to the related Staff (i.e. The staff that contains the 
melody) and unrelated Staves. So you can do a
 \new Lyrics \with {
    \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-unrelatedstaff-spacing.padding = #4
 } \lyricsto "music" { \verseIII }

Note that for this to work you need to Name the Voice that contains the notes, 
so that the lyrics can be aligned to them.

→ You should use -- for hyphens in lyrics to get proper hyphenation. Use __ to 
get malisma lines.

Also your lyrics are distributed weirdly. I’ve modified your score a bit, but 
I do not know how the last stanza ist supposed to be distributed.

Cheers,
Valentin

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