Re: guitar position indication

[Simon Bailey]

hiya,

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:21 PM, bart deruyter <address@hidden> wrote:

I'm working on a piece for guitar here where in some parts I want to show the position it is played in (e.g. IV, forth position) .

I know I have to use textspanners for this, but this is intended for 'spanning over a melody'. What should be used if there is only one note? 

Instinctivly I thought I should use text marks, but those result in differently formatted text (size, italic, weight, etc.. ) I can of course try and tweak the formatting of these text marks, but isn't there consistent way of indicating a position, without having to rely on spanners?

have a look at the attached ly file. you basically define the markups you need and make the TextScripts or the TextSpanner have the same staff-padding value. this more or less aligns them on the same line (it's not pixel-perfect, the TextSpanner may need a tiny bit of tweaking, play with the values). I'm not a guitarist, so the music probably does not make sense in combination with the position markings. ;)

regards,

sb

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