Re: Entering (lute) tablature

[Hans Åberg]

> On 20 Mar 2017, at 00:31, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hans Åberg <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>> On 19 Mar 2017, at 23:54, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> David Kastrup wrote Sunday, March 19, 2017 10:11 PM
>>> 
>>>> Here is my version using
>>>> 
>>>> \new TabStaff \with { stringTunings = \lute-tuning
>>>> tablatureFormat = #fret-letter-tablature-format
>>>> fretLabels = \markuplist \bold \fontsize #3 \lower #0.2
>>>> { 𝔞 𝔟 𝔠 𝔡 𝔢 𝔣 𝔤 𝔥 𝔦 𝔨 𝔩 𝔪 𝔫 𝔬 𝔭 }
>>>> } \content
>>>> 
>>>> (\bold does not seem to work, however):
>>> 
>>> Much nicer.
>> 
>> The mathematical bold fraktur are separate Unicode code points, so
>> probably must have a separate list.
> 
> Ok, so
> 
> \new TabStaff \with { stringTunings = \lute-tuning
> tablatureFormat = #fret-letter-tablature-format
> fretLabels = \markuplist \fontsize #2 \lower #0.2
> { 𝖆 𝖇 𝖈 𝖉 𝖊 𝖋 𝖌 𝖍 𝖎 𝖐 𝖑 𝖒 𝖓 𝖔 𝖕 }
> } \content
> 
> But c and e _do_ look too similar.  Well, it was a nice idea.

Probably better to use a special font, with letter in the ordinary code points. 
WP has an article about the style:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur

Also SMuFL has some Renaissance tablature stuff:
  http://www.smufl.org/version/latest/range/renaissanceLuteTablature/