Re: TAB question

[Grammostola Rosea]

David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Johan Vromans wrote:
>   
> > "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >     
> > > > Shouldn't the 'e2' be rendered without a stem?
> > > >         
> > > It would seem so, but what do people who know about
> > > tabs think?
> > >       
> > AFIK there are two kinds of TABs. The simple kind just has numbers to
> > indiciate string positions. This is used in ASCII TABs. Notes do not
> > have length information.
> >
> > The other kind, as used by LilyPond, attaches stems to the numbers,
> > just like ordinary notes. In the OP example there are quarter notes
> > (with a simple stem), eight notes (with a flagged stem) and a half
> > note that I would expect to have no stem.
> >
> > -- Johan
> >     
>
> If there is also a proper notation staff, and there should be one unless 
> the user is either copying ancient lute music or engaged in some 
> criminal activity, there is no point in having stems in the tab. See 
> the banjo pieces on my site.  Remove engravers in the tab so that the 
> tab consists in only fret numbers and string lines. That is the default 
> in some typesetters, and it should have been in lilypond, because that 
> would have made good typesetting far easier.
Would be great if tablature for guitar in Lilypond will be improved imho.

>  I found it best to
> have two parts in the notation staff code and combine them into one in 
> the tab staff block. Clumsy, but you can't argue with results. That way 
> you have a fighting chance to see how it sounds. With this method, the 
> tab staff is nothing more than the orderly presentation of fingering. 
> necessary for banjo, helpful for lute, bad for guitar unless a variant 
> tuning is being used. Regards, daveA
>
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