Re: How to write slurs and ties with scheme

[Rachael Thomas]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 4:33 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> 2015-09-29 12:26 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>>
>> At the current point of time, slurs are only from one chord in a Voice
>> to the next chord in a Voice.  So you'd need to put your notes into
>> different Voice contexts in order to be able to slur them individually.
>> However, Stems are strictly a single-Voice phenomenon.  So you need to
>> put your notes in the same Voice. 

>
> I'm thinking about the problem for some time now.
> Another part of the problem is that most occurences of slurs in
> TabStaff with \tabFullNotation are not really Slurs but what is called
> 'hammering on'/'pulling off'.

 

Yes.  Colloquially called hammering-on/pulling-off.  Classical guitarists (not me) call them ascending and descending slurs, respectively. 

I'm currently working on making in-chord ties work (if you have more
than one tie at the same time, you'd still need to work with
spanner-id).  Annoyingly complex to get right without causing too much
of a performance hit.

 

Thank you for your good work! 

The composition that I am working on is in a different tuning.  For the purposes of a minimal example I changed the tuning to standard.

I didn't realize that you tieWaitForNote allows you to call the tie function within a chord.  Here is a possible fix:

\version "2.18.2"

\new TabStaff {

  \tabFullNotation

  \set tieWaitForNote = ##t

  < bis'\1 g\4 \tweak TabNoteHead.color #white \tweak

  TabNoteHead.layer #-1 d\4~>16[ < fis'\2

  ees\5> < g\3 d\4>]

}

( look at that beautiful slur!)

This minimal example doesn't cause any errors however within the larger transcription I am getting the following error:

programming error: Tie without heads.  Suicide

continuing , cross fingers

I don't understand this error.  It doesn't really seem to affect anything though.  So I don't exactly mind it.

What do you think?

Rachael Carlson

PS.  The composition that I am working on is called "Madrid" by Stefano Barone.  The transcription that you get when you buy it from him desperately needs to be redone with an eye towards detail.  (A lot of the composition is in 10/16 and 14/16.  The transcription writes it in 5/4 which makes it really difficult to read.)

https://youtu.be/vWs1OdnsJNM