Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

[David Stocker]

If I may chime in...

This may just be a matter of editorial taste, but would it be possible 
to make it so the 'X' on in the Tab staff is not the musical glyph from 
Feta, but rather the character 'capital X' from the same font set being 
used for tab numbers? For example, instead of #'glyph-name #"2cross", 
use whatever command would call the capital X from whichever font tab 
numbers are set to?

I believe that this looks better on the page than mixing music glyphs 
and text glyphs in the tab staff, particularly where tab numbers and 
muted strings are part of the same chord.

In the industry, most houses are currently using Helvetica Condensed 
Bold or some derivative (which, incidentally, matches better with the 
'modern' tab clef) for tab numbers, but I've seen older copy done with a 
Roman font in the tab staff (and a fancier, more rustic looking tab clef).

Thanks, Marc and Carl for making this happen. I'll post some editorial 
suggestions here for how bends should look soon (next week, really! I've 
had occasion to work on it this week)

David

Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> On 5/28/09 7:22 AM, "Julian" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>   
> > > But still not within the tablature staff
> > > At the moment, I don't know how to manage this.
> > >       
> > I found it,
> >
> > <
> >    % Dead Note
> >    \tweak #'stencil #ly:note-head::print
> >    \tweak #'glyph-name #"2cross"
> >    \tweak #'style #'special
> >    f'\1
> >    % End of Dead Note
> >    f\4
> >     
> > > 4
> > >       
> > Dead note is applied only to "f'\1" as we expect, and "X" is displayed on
> > both,
> > staff and tabStaff.
> >
> > Now i don't have idea how to make it in a lilypond function :) to use
> > \chordNoteDead instead of add all tweaks lines...
> > however it don't matters, now we know that it is possible to show X in tab too
> > by notes instead of chord.
> >     
>
>
> Here's one way to do it:
>
> deadNote =
> #(define-music-function (parser location note) (ly:music?)
>     (set! (ly:music-property note 'tweaks)
>           (acons 'stencil ly:note-head::print
>            (acons 'glyph-name "2cross"
>             (acons 'style 'special (ly:music-property note 'tweaks)))))
>     note)
>
> {
>   <f\4 \deadNote f'\1>
> }
>
>
> Marc, feel free to add this to tablature.ly if you want to.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Carl
>
>
>
>
>   
> > Thanks for your patience.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     
>
>
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