Josh Lawrence wrote:
I've worked with Lilypond, and while it is amazing and very powerful,
it is too powerful and complex for my needs.
Did you look at abc (http://www.walshaw.plus.com/abc)?
I've used it for can't-remember-how-many-years for everything from
making small examples for a book to a full-blown big band score. It's
most powerful however for small things.
It's basically text-driven (like lilypond) but has much, much more
compact and human-readable syntax. There are also a number of front ends
out there, but although I tried a few none of them suited my needs,
YMMV. If you're into such things there's also a nice emacs-mode.
Most users agree that the best software for generating prints from abc
is abcm2ps (http://moinejf.free.fr/).
As an example of something like you want to do, the following sniplet
generates http://atte.dk/download/chord.pdf (full page) or
http://atte.dk/download/chord.eps (small example), both generated
directly and no post editing was done (except convert ps to pdf):
X:1
L:1/1
%%staves {RH LH}
M:none
K:none
V:RH
"Cmaj9"[DEG]
V:LH clef=F
[CB]
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Atte
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