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Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063)
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Carl Sorensen |
Subject: |
Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063) |
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Sun, 6 Dec 2009 19:38:45 -0700 |
On Dec 6, 2009, at 7:18 PM, "Ian Hulin" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Carl, Trevor,
>
> You've discussed the overloading of 'string' in Scheme and what
> variable
> name to use, and looked at Dana's suggestion of using 'course' but did
> you consider the other important point Dana made?
I think so. That's why I suggested a list of (string or markup), which
I think is completely general. At that point the user can select any
glyph from any font available.
The possibility of adding the afm-type info that Dana talked about is
a separate patch, because it applies to all markups.
Is there something else you were thinking of?
Thanks,
Carl
>
> address@hidden wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Hhm, I'm not so sure about this. I had envisaged changing
>>> only the c to r, leaving all letters beyond c to default.
>>
>> I don't understand this insistance on misreading gamma as r. It
>> was not
>> written as gamma, the letterform used was always understood as
>> 'c'. It
>> should be read today as c, and is most logically encoded as c.
>> Yes, naive
>> musicologists and new players might take a while to get used to the
>> idea,
>> but no experienced player reads gamma as 'r' to my knowledge. Go
>> this way
>> and you make a nightmare for possible analytical use of music thus
>> encoded.
>>
>> Let the choice of font display a glyph in the proper shape. Provide
>> the
>> user with a way to display arbitrary glyphs and ligatures for each
>> encoded
>> 'stop'. This will be useful for bass stops (/a /b /c... //a //
>> b //c,
>> ///a) and essential for german tab should we go there.
>>
>> It would be wrong to presume the encoding of the font. The need for
>> glyphs beyond what is used in prose makes necessary special fonts
>> whose
>> encoding has no standard.
>>
>> afm-like information in external files keyed by name to their
>> relevant
>> font would be my suggestion for that.
>>
>>> Although if i not j is a general rule
>>
>> I have generally seen i used in preference to j, but I have seen
>> both in
>> the same document albeit this was german tab (same semantic). Note
>> that
>> that edition had large pages and lots of staves, it must have been a
>> challenge to find enough sorts to set the amount of type on each
>> page,
>> several sizes and flavors of each sort were also used interchangeably
>> (both tall and short s for example).
>>
>> J Wolf Handbuck der Notationskunde (2vv, ca 1926) and Apel
>> _Notation of
>> Polyphonic Music 900-1600_ are the two standard references. Groves
>> Dictionary of Music and Musicians (22vv or 26vv edition)
>> 'Tabulature' is a
>> lengthy article also worth having a copy of.
>>
>> --
>> Dana Emery
>
> Cheers,
> Ian
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), Carl . D . Sorensen, 2009/12/06
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), Trevor Daniels, 2009/12/06
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), demery, 2009/12/06
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), Ian Hulin, 2009/12/06
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063),
Carl Sorensen <=
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), Ian Hulin, 2009/12/07
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), Carl Sorensen, 2009/12/07
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), demery, 2009/12/07
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), Trevor Daniels, 2009/12/07
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), demery, 2009/12/07
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), David Kastrup, 2009/12/08
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), demery, 2009/12/08
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), Trevor Daniels, 2009/12/07
- Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), demery, 2009/12/07
Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063), Carl Sorensen, 2009/12/06