[linux-audio-user] guitar song sheets

[pirrone at localnet.com]

>
> I've seen several good music notation or type setting programs, but
> does anybody here know of a program to use for printing out song lyrics
> with guitar chords? The only thing I've seen is GuitarTex. (Perhaps one
> of the lilypond apps like Denemo supports this and I just don't know
> it?)
>
> Specifically, I need this for my brother. He always needs to give music
> to people playing with him. However he often plays his guitar with a
> kapo, which of course always makes this a mess for bass players. I need
> software that can be told to shift everything up by X number of half
> steps and automatically update all the chords. I've seen software that
> can adjust music when the key is changed, but is there anything that
> can do this for guitar chord notation?
>
> GUI interface is perfered. My little brother is not the type to spend
> much time learning notation syntax.
>
> -reuben

Absolutely excellent CLI program that supports user-defined chords either
inline or in a data file, and will either print chord diagrams or not,
will print chord names above the lyric where the change occurs, allows
choice of font size, transpose to any degree, etc.
http://www.harmonycentral.com/Software/Unix/chord.tar.Z

Frank