Re: Add option to indicate frets by letters in tablature (issue164063)

[Carl Sorensen]

On 12/7/09 11:00 AM, "Ian Hulin" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Carl,
> 
> Carl Sorensen wrote:
>>  
>> 
>> On Dec 6, 2009, at 7:18 PM, "Ian Hulin" <address@hidden>
>> <mailto: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?
>>   
> Well, yes, maybe Dana can explain this better, but it seems to me we may be in
> danger of perpetuating a sort of urban myth with regard to lettered
> tablatures.   

We are perpetuating that urban myth if we provide fretLabels with "r".  I'm
glad you pointed that out.

My comments were not about the fretLabels to be provided, but about the
architecture that would support various fretLabel lists.


> 
> Fret 3 was lettered as ɣ, which was rendered in some contemporary engravings
> to look a bit like a fancy r, so some modern transcriptions of the tablature
> turn it into an r.  If we're going to re-render ɣ, why not do it as c, and
> keep the logical letter sequence. 

My preference would be to render it as gamma.  Let's do it correctly.
Thanks for pointing this out.

Carl