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What this guide covers
For songwriters and notation users who want a lyric, melody and chord names on one page from plain text in LilyPond. It maps the manual's lyric, chord and stanza features onto a seven-step checklist. It is based on the manual only; nothing was compiled or run.
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Guide title
LilyPond lead sheet as text: lyrics, hyphens, extenders, chord names and stanza numbers (documentation only)
Coverage
For songwriters and notation users who want a lyric, melody and chord names on one page from plain text in LilyPond. It maps the manual's lyric, chord and stanza features onto a seven-step checklist. It is based on the manual only; nothing was compiled or run.
Useful starting points
- A melody context can disappear when it has nothing to play for a while, and the lyrics after that point are then lost, so keep it alive.
- A single underscore skips a note in a melisma and by default draws no extender line, so it does a different job from the double underscore.
- Chord names display the same whichever way chords were entered, unless there are inversions or added bass notes.
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