Re: Crosses in tablature

[Simon Bailey]

hi,

On Dec 13, 2008, at 10:19 PM, Marius Andersen wrote:
> > if you're all ok with this updated version, i'll
> > add that to the LSR.
>
> Please do -- this is tremendously helpful. Even if LilyPond's  
> support for tablature is, according to the manual, "limited", I'm  
> probably not the only guitar player who nevertheless thinks its  
> output is far more beautiful than that of any other "tabs" program.  
> Code like this extends that support!

hmm, is there any way to add 2.11.x compatible snippets to the LSR?  
atm, i can't add this snippet, as it doesn't seem to work with 2.10.x  
running on the lsr box.

> > <c' f'\harmonic>
>
> This is intriguing. In tablature, I use \parenthesize to enclose  
> grace notes in parentheses:
>
>    <\parenthesize e\1>
>
> which produces (0). But this doesn't leave any extra space for the  
> parentheses, the way space is left for the brackets when using  
> \harmonic. In other words, the fret number itself (the notehead) is  
> printed on a white background, but the parentheses around it are  
> printed on the tablature lines.


quick question to the scheme/guile gurus around here: where does the  
predicate is-harmonic in the standard tablatureFormat function come  
from? i tried grepping for it in the $lilypond-home/share/lilypond/scm  
folder and couldn't find it anywhere. I'm thinking my  
tablatureFormatter might probably be extended in almost exactly the  
same way as is-harmonic to also support formatting parenthesize in the  
same way (with white-blanked background).

regards,
sb