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Lilypond: Guitar stringNumber colliding with glissando

I'd like to tweak (raise) the fingeringNumber '2' in measure 1 just a bit to avoid collision with the glissando. I know how to lower the glissando endpoint, but that's not what I'm after. Can somebody ...
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Notating a barre with vertical bracket in lilypond

In certain books I found this version of notation for barre chords. It seems there are no built in ways to do it in lilypond. Size of the bracket is important because it signifies how many strings the ...
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Lilypond: manually specify fret numbers in a TabStaff?

I'm writing down a score for a transcription of a guitar piece, and figured I could also include tabs for it. Unfortunately, lilypond seems to generate the fingerings on its own and they're very ...
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Lilypond tablature: how to force a note to a specific string+fret?

I have written a partition on Lilypond, with both Staff and tabStaff. I have customised the tablature with TabStaff.minimumFret = #7 and TabStaff.restrainOpenStrings = ##t and the generated tablature ...
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lilypond redefining guitar chord spelling for each bookpart

I have 30 or so songs that were individually created that I now want to typeset as bookparts into a single book. Of course other than pagination I want each part to look the same as when it is typeset ...
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Lilypond (v2.24) macro delivers unexpected results

Writing up a piece for guitar I'm not happy with the common strumming tabulature 'stroke up' and 'stroke down' symbols (^\downbow, ^\upbow) and want to replace them with up- and down arrow heads. In ...
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Multiple voices in Lilypond: stem directions, beams, and merged noteheads

With quite a bit of trial and error I figured out a way to write the following bar in Lilypond: There are four voices, the top voice has upward stems, the two lower voices have downward stems, and ...
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Lilypond: barre marker for single note values

This question deals with barre chord notation for guitar using the TextSpanner command in Lilypond. This approach is also described in the Lilypond documentation. However, this approach only works if ...
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New to Lilypond, I want a guitar chord box above each bar of the staff , does anyone have a template?

I am new to Lilypond, I want to print blank guitar chord box(es) above each of the 32 bars of the blank staff , does anyone have a template?
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In Lllypond, connect half note with 8th note beams for guitar arpeggio

I've come across guitar sheets several times where the bass note of an arpeggiated chord, written as a half note (to keep the string ringing) is connected to the beam of the 8th notes following, for ...
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How to make position/barre markers in lilypond?

I've recently started experimenting with LilyPond (Version 2.18.2 in case it matters). I've been fairly successful in creating basic scores, but I cannot figure how to properly make position/barre ...
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Fret diagrams for chord backing in Lilypond

I have created the following Lilypond code: % one octave above middle c song = { \relative c'' { \time 4/4 \tempo 4 = 66 c c d e f1 f4 f c d e1 | \break e4 e f e d e ...
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Lilypond: Is there a way to create a song with just lyrics and chords? Without the notes

I'm creating a songbook for my scouts group. I just need the guitar chrod names written above the lyrics. Without the staff. Is there a way to do that with lilypond?
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Lilypond - two voices, with overlapping beams

I have the following in my measure: What would I have to write, to have those <c e>'s connected with beam instead of 1/8 rests, and those in second voice bellow also? Edit upper voice : <c'...
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