Re: sunday school songs

[Mark Dewey]

Are they hymns you're dealing with?  If so, I might recommend using a template 
of mine and looking at the source of some full songs, comparing it (the source) 
with the music while looking for how to do certain things.

All of the articles linked from the following URL have hymns/songs made with 
LilyPond, including the source, PDF files and midis:
http://www.hymnwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Public_Domain_PDF_Sheet_Music

Here's a template link:
http://www.hymnwiki.org/wiki/images/e/e4/MODEL.ly

I'm sure it requires some explanation, though, if you're new to LilyPond.  So, 
feel free to ask questions.  Remember that anything directly after a percent 
sign is a comment (meaning it doesn't do anything; it's just there for you to 
read, or, it will do something if you remove the percent sign).

If you want some help notating the songs, I may be able to help out at least a 
little (let me know) while you're getting used to things.

- Mark


Tim Litwiller wrote:
> I have a bunch on sunday school songs like this that I need to put into 
> lilypond so we can make clean nice prints.
>
> I have been playing with it for a week now and going thru the manual and 
> tutorial, downloading samples and layout tools like Jedit and the pspad 
> plug ins and canorus.
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> I haven't been able yet to make it look like I want.
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> I need to have all the stanza's between the music
> I need to combine the flags on all notes that where the head don't colide
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> so far I've been able to either have lyrics or combine notes - but not 
> both.
> then where notes collide I need to have a flag go each direction.
> I've circled examples in the attachment.
>
> Also lilypond is adding naturals in the printout and I haven't yet found 
> a way to make it not do that.
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> I'm not very music literate and we can't afford a commercial music 
> program for our sunday school. But I found lilypond and it looked like 
> it should do everything we need to have good looking music sheets.  So 
> far it has been quite a learning curve but I need help to get past these 
> obstacles.
>
> since I can't attach a file here is a link to an example
> http://www.litwiller.net/images/fishers.gif
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