Re: Special symbols in tabulature

[Marc Hohl]

On Wednesday 20 February 2008 08:57:18 Marc Hohl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After years of typesetting guitar music with MusiXTeX, I finally switched
> to Lilypond (2.10.5, which comes with ubuntu feisty). Now (nearly)
> everything works fine, but there are two related problems with tabulature:
>
> 1) How can I put a symbol instead of the fret number in the tabulature?
> Sometimes a "x" denotes that a string is plucked with no definite pitch, or
> I use brackets to indicate a harmonic: <5> (the number needn't to be
> calculated by lilypond, because the relationship between the fret number
> and the resultig note is not linear; even fractional frets like <2.6> for
> the sixth harmonic of a string are used in tabbing guitar scores).

I looked at the documentation of lilypond 2.11 and found that harmonics are 
now directly supported. Great!

> 2) How can I put a symbol in the middle between two tab numbers, without
> influencing the spacing? For example, there are many possibilities to
> connect two notes, like "hammer on", "pull off, "slide" etc., which I want
> to mark not with a slur in the tabulature, but with one or two letters:
>
> -----10-p-8---------------------
> ---------------5-h-7---4-sl-5---
> --------------------------------
>
> I searched the manual and the LSR, but I dind't find any hints.

For this, I didn't find any solutions yet. 

Marc


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