Re: Help with sheet music format

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2010-08-17 03:24, Brett McCoy wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Stephen Nesbitt
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
> > [...] fretboard diagrams. [...]
> > A rough example (less the slashes can be found here:
> > http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/scorchVPE.asp?ppn=SC0009216
>
> You are looking for something like this:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets-big-page#Guitar-strum-rhythms

I'm not a guitar player, so I usually don't pay any attention on 
fretboards, but this makes me wonder:
I can't remember to have seen fret diagrams without the bottom line 
indicating the last fret (i.e., all diagrams I know are "closed" at 
their bottom, as is shown in the example Stephen quoted.  This is not 
the case for LilyPond's diagrams: the bottom line is missing, i.e. the 
diagrams are "open".  Is this intentional / more correct / the "real" 
way to write fretboards, or merely a possible bug?


Cheers,
Alexander