Re: guitar fingering -- attaching digits to noteheads (att. Ferenc Wagner)

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Friday 23 January 2004 12:17, pd wrote:
> Hello,
> and sorry for starting the same thread once again (I haven't
> been subscribed to the list when posting for the first time...)
>
> I *have* read "Fingering instructions" in the manual,
> and that's why I try to get help from you, wise people!
>
> Usually guitar fingering instructions for left hand are marked
> with numbers, placed right above the note head, or to the left
> of the note head; but always close to the note head, and not
> above or below the stem.

Usually, yes.  The traditional way is that the finger indication for a
note is the closest one to *its* notehead, but that doesn't rule out
fingering near some of the stem ends altogether, especially for the
right hand.  Stacking numbers above a chord, however, is a very
unwelcome innovation common in software, AYWK.

> Placing the fingering numbers manually by means of extra-offset
> property is, well, somewhat tedious work.

Indeed it is, causing me to suspend some projects.

> In addition, \property Voice.fingeringOrientations = #'(right,
> left) works only for chords (at least this is what I have
> observed)
>
> So, if someone has any ideas how to tackle the problem, please
> share!

I hope that a chord of one note will do it.  If not, you have a
bug.

> I have searched some lilypond music repositories for the guitar,
> but to my surprise, there is almost no fingering instructions in
> scores! I hope guitarists use lilypond for making sheet music,
> and not something else...

All of these.  Look at my website.  I have the .ly code up for the
Bouree.  There was a way.  The ten lessons are such a dog's dinner that
I didn't post the .ly code, but I will when I get back to it.  daveA

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