Re: tenuto fingering: 3t, 2t, 4t, etc.

[David Kastrup]

Gianmaria Lari <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2 May 2018 at 09:25, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Gianmaria Lari <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > On 2 May 2018 at 08:56, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Something like this?
>> >>
>> >> \version "2.19.81"
>> >>
>> >> t =
>> >> #(define-event-function (n) (index?)
>> >>   #{ \tweak text #(format "~dt" n) -1 #})
>> >>
>> >> {
>> >>   c\t1 d\t2 e2
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >
>> > interesting! As you know David, to indicate a finger on the 4th row of
>> the
>> > accordion right keyboard, we circle the finger number. This same notation
>> > is used on violin/guitar etc. to indicate a chord number.
>> > For example if I need to indicate a "c" pitch to play on the 4th row I
>> > write "c\4".
>> >
>> > Wouldn't be better to define a custom fingering function for that so that
>> > it is treated as a fingering?
>>
>> Uh, the above is a custom fingering function resulting in a fingering
>> event.  I'm not sure what you want instead.
>
>
> Sorry I wrote "... to indicate a chord number"

No, you didn't.  Not at the point I answered.

> but I wanted to say "... to indicate a string number"!!!!! (In italian
> corda = string). So:
>
> 1) I would like to understand if  it make sense to avoid to use the string
> notation to indicate a finger notation and....
> 2) if yes, how to create a custom fingering notation to circle a finger
> number
>
> I hope I have been more clear..... :(

Not really.  Obviously you can use what I wrote for creating fingerings
(or string indications in an analogous way) with arbitrary markup,
including circled numbers.

I have no idea what problem you are trying to solve here, though.

-- 
David Kastrup