<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>For laying out music, and making it look VERY professional, you might consider Lilypond:<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>http://www.lilypond.org/</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>It is
free.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Murray<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="y_msg_container"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b></font><font face="Arial" size="2">(John Culleton<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> scribus@lists.scribus.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:35:22 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;"></span></b></font><br>On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:43:52 -0700<br>Adam <<a ymailto="mailto:adam@photosynth.ca" href="mailto:adam@photosynth.ca">adam@photosynth.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Good day,<br>> I'm working on a script for laying out a song book that includes<br>> lyrics and chords. Chord names need to be placed above each line of<br>> lyrics, at the appropriate spot in the lyrics. I've explored a<br>> variety of approaches to this using typographic options to try to get<br>> the chord letters bumped up above the lyrics line using baseline<br>> shift and kerning adjustments, but so far these have not proved<br>> effective.<br><br><br>There are horses for courses. When I need to typeset music I use<br>Mup, a shareware program that is designed for that purpose (one<br>time fee of $20.) The output is postscript which can be changed<br>to pdf and imported into most DTP programs including Scribus.<br><br>-- <br>John
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