Re: Harmonics in tablature

[Valentin Petzel]

Hi Lukas,

 

You might want to set restrainOpenStrings to #t in case the sounding pitch is in fact an open string (else minimumFret would be ignored), see appended file.

 

The order requirement to string tuning is most likely a bug, I guess Lilypond tries to minimize the used fret by traversing the string tuning list backwards and using the first string that is tuned lower, thus assuming this order. This could probably be fixed quite easily.

 

Artificial harmonics is hard to do, custom noteheads for that are possible. I did this for some bass score like this

But the hard part would be getting Staff Notation and TabStaff-Notation right at the same time, because you usually want to notate this like this

Or similar to this. So you would need different functions for Tabnotation and regular Notation. This having a specific engraver for harmonics would probably be the cleanest way to do this.

 

Valentin

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