How to get note names below staff in Lilypond?

Question

I am a beginner at creating scores with Lilypond and I wonder if is there any way to make Lilypond automatically put note names below the staff (or above)? I searched the documentation but could not find it.

Answer 1

There's a NoteNames context which seems to do what you want. I haven't tested the solution below, but I'm glad you did and it worked for you:

scale = \relative c' { c d e f g a b c }

\new Staff {
  <<
    \scale
    \context NoteNames {
      \set printOctaveNames = ##f
      \scale
    }
  >>
}