On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 10:32 -0800, iain duncan wrote: > I have a couple of questions re lilypond before trying it out if anyone > can help me. > > - Can I force formatting and spacing such that there will *always* be 4 > or 8 measures per print line? I believe so. Here is the point in the manual that explains horizontal spacing. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Horizontal-spacing#Horizontal-spacing > > - Can one change the type setting and format of the English chord > symbols? ( ie how one notates say C7+9 etc ) Yes http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Printing-chord-names#Printing-chord-names The manual is very well written. Here is a link to the main documentation. I have a copy in pdf that I have open most of the time I am typesetting music. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/ If you are using an earlier version: http://lilypond.org/web/documentation > > - Is it fairly easy to integrate lilypond with databases? Unfortunately, I have no experience doing this. > Thanks > Iain > Best Wishes, Peter
