RE: guitar guide-mark

[Nick Payne]

I'm used to seeing the movement you describe notated as a line between the
two fingering indications, which I fake with a shifted glissando with
truncated ends:

%===========================================================
guide = #(define-music-function (parser location padleft padright) (number?
number?)
        #{
                \once \override Glissando #'bound-details #'left #'padding =
#$padleft
                \once \override Glissando #'bound-details #'right #'padding
= #$padright
        #})

\relative c' {
        \override Fingering #'staff-padding = #'()      
        \guide #1 #1 d'2-2-\tweak #'extra-offset #'(0 . 1.7)\glissando c-2
}
%==========================================================

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On
> Behalf Of Peter Buhr
> Sent: Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:46 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: guitar guide-mark
> 
> When writing the fingering for guitar, there is a notation used to
> indicate a
> guide finger in left-hand shifting. The fingering mark looks like "-3",
> but the
> "-" is rotated up about 30 degrees, which means to silently slide the
> 3rd
> finger from its previous position to this marked note on the same
> string. (Just
> in case someone doesn't know. ;-) So I want to write something like:
> 
>    c-{-3} or c-"-3"
> 
> The first doesn't work and the latter puts the "-3" below the note. Is
> there a
> mechanism to accomplish this? Again, I have scanned all the
> documentation and
> not found an example, but I could have missed it.

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