Re: Entering (lute) tablature

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote Saturday, March 18, 2017 10:36 PM
>
>
>> So here is a sketch of entering this score by tab:
>
> Looks good and seems to work well.
>  
>> Pretty sure I entered stuff wrong here (there is some programming error,
>> too) and probably did not decipher all of the tab correctly.  Anybody
>> wanting to proofread?
>
> I could see only one issue - in bar 16 there is a spurious Bb I think.
> It seems to be just a smudge in the original score, so I deleted it.

Yes, I chose the same.  Not sure whether it's some sort of embellishment
though.

> I attach a rerendering for lute using your file and a cobbled-together
> toy engraver I wrote for outputting lute tab. (I had to change only
> the octavation.)  This makes checking the data entry very easy by
> straight comparison with the original.

With xpdf, I see a fat display font for fret letters (and I find the use
of r for c rather confusing).  With the default PDF viewer "Atril"
(Evince for the Mate desktop) on my desktop, I only see empty spaces.

So something seems to be amiss with the font embedding.

-- 
David Kastrup