Hello, everybody!
I'm developing an app for my jazz educational project, which helps me to automate a lot of routine. It uses lilypond for rendering scores. I have recently added the export chord chart feature, and I attach an example of its output to this email in *.ly and in *.png. Though it doesn't look bad to me, I would like it to be a little closer to the similar output, generated by such software as iRealPro or Band-in-a-Box.
Here are the questions:
1. Is it possible to add the bar lines at the beginning of each line?
I have tried with no result:
\layout {
\context {
\Score
\override SystemStartBar #'collapse-height = #5
}
\context {
\ChordNames
\consists "System_start_delimiter_engraver"
}}
2. Is it possible to make the measure widths equal or at least more aligned to each other so that they would look snapped to the vertical grid?
The following code, which works in general, but the result is not perfect:
\context {
\Score
proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16)
\override SpacingSpanner.uniform-stretching = ##t
\override SpacingSpanner.strict-note-spacing = ##t
\override SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1/16)
}
3. To add some space below the header(s)/title(s), I use the transparent text of the needed size:
\markup \fontsize #7 \fill-line \transparent {space}
This works, but the code looks a bit like a hack. Is there a more straightforward way to do this :-)?
Many thanks in advance!
Best,
G.