guitar music notation issues

[Tom Cloyd]

There are many problems associated with playing the classic guitar, and 
now I have another: Lilypond! (but it's a rather nice one, all in all).

[Running on Kubuntu Linux 8.04.1]

In the score code below, I'm trying to notate a lot of things: right 
hand fingering, the specific strings notes are to be played on, and left 
hand fingering. All are essential to the sound of the piece. The result 
of this attempt isn't pretty.

I'm having 2 problems, given here in descending order of importance:

1.  Compiling the code below, the PDF score generated has a LOT of 
notation on it - most of it unreadable. Studying the Learning Manual's 
section 4.5 basically tells me I'm not going to fix THAT tangle without 
hours of digging into the documentation fai3. rly deeply (at least 
that's my fear). Have to abandon that for now, unless someone can throw 
a quick tip or two at me.

2. The last two lines in the code are identical, except that the last 
one has right hand fingering notated. Uncomment that last line and the 
same sort of right hand fingering notation that works in measure one 
suddenly makes the compliler nuts. I've stared at the code until I'm 
half blind, and I cannot see a problem to correct. Any idea what the 
problem might be? (The compiler output is beyond me, except for this 
fragment, which is clever: "...programming error: Not a music 
type...continuing, cross fingers". It actually says that a lot.

As always, much thanks for any help anyone can offer.

Tom


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\version "2.11.56"

#(set-global-staff-size 20) % 20 this is said to be standard for most 
scores  

\paper {
   #(set-default-paper-size "letter" 'portrait)
   ragged-last-bottom = ##t % turns off vertical justify
   left-margin = 0.6\in
   line-width = 7\in     % works better than specifying R-margin
   bottom-margin = .7\in
   top-margin = 0.7\in   
}

\layout {
   indent = 0.0\cm % remove indent on first staff
}

\header {
   title = "Prelude #1 for classical guitar"
   subtitle = "An etude for walking with angels (2007.06.04)"
   composer = "Tom Cloyd"
   tagline = \markup { \small "score set by Tom Cloyd - with Lilipond - 
address@hidden"} % this is the copyright line       
}

\score {
   \new Staff{         
       \key g \major 
       \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'() % this prints 
numerical time signatures
       \time 5/4
       #(define RH rightHandFinger)       
       <<
       {\partial 2 r4 ^"Lento" < e''\1-\RH#2 fis''-1\3-\RH#3 
g''-4\2-\RH#4 >4 \fermata |} \\
       {\partial 2 e4 (e) \fermata |}   
       >>
             
       \relative     c''{ \times 2/3{e8 [fis\3 g\2]    } e4 e e e | }
       
       %\relative     c''{ \times 2/3{e8-\RH#3 [fis\3-\RH#1 
g\2-\RH#2]    } e4 e e e | }      

   }
}

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