RE: Alignment of stroke fingering

[Nick Payne]

Forgot to attach the scan...

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> Behalf Of Nick Payne
> Sent: Monday, 13 April 2009 15:23
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> Subject: Alignment of stroke fingering
> 
> Guitar stroke fingering is lower case, but with the orientation set to
> up,
> the p is not correctly aligned with the other characters in a
> succession of
> fingering indications, and with the orientation set to down, the i is
> similarly misaligned.
> 
> This doesn't look pleasing to the eye, and indeed, when I flip through
> some
> of the commercially engraved guitars scores that I have, they align the
> lower case p and i as if they were set in running text. See attached
> scan
> for an example (Brouwer Estudios Sencillos #6).
> 
> 
> \version "2.12.2"
> 
> #(define RH rightHandFinger)
> 
> \relative c'' {
>       \set strokeFingerOrientations = #'(up)
>       \stemDown <c-\RH #1 >4 <c-\RH #2 > <c-\RH #3 > <c-\RH #4 >
>       \set strokeFingerOrientations = #'(up)
>       <c-\tweak #'extra-offset #'(0 . -0.2)-\RH #1 > <c-\RH #2 > <c-\RH
> #3
> > <c-\RH #4 >
>       \set strokeFingerOrientations = #'(down)
>       \stemUp <c-\RH #1 > <c-\RH #2 > <c-\RH #3 > <c-\RH #4 >
>       \set strokeFingerOrientations = #'(down)
>       <c-\RH #1 > <c-\tweak #'extra-offset #'(0 . 0.3)-\RH #2 > <c-\RH
> #3
> > <c-\RH #4 >
> }
> 
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
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