Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 5/29/09 1:56 AM, "Marc Hohl" <address@hidden> wrote:

> David Stocker schrieb:
>> If I may chime in...
>> 
>> This may just be a matter of editorial taste, but would it be possible
>> to make it so the 'X' on in the Tab staff is not the musical glyph
>> from Feta, but rather the character 'capital X' from the same font set
>> being used for tab numbers? For example, instead of #'glyph-name
>> #"2cross", use whatever command would call the capital X from
>> whichever font tab numbers are set to?
>> 
>> I believe that this looks better on the page than mixing music glyphs
>> and text glyphs in the tab staff, particularly where tab numbers and
>> muted strings are part of the same chord.
> Hm, in my opinion, this looks not very convincing. I defined
> 
> #(define (xx-tab-format str context event)
>   (make-whiteout-markup
>     (make-vcenter-markup
>       (markup "X"))))
> 
> so the "X" matches the font and font-size of the numbers.
> I have attached an example.

Have you tried a sans-serif font for both the numbers and the X?

Carl