Re: separating music and guitar instructions

[David Kastrup]

Patrick Schmidt <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 20.09.2010 um 20:29 schrieb Vicente Solsona:
>
>>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:27:37 +0200, "Vicente Solsona"
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> To sumarise:
>>>>
>>>> String numbers, harmonics and right hand fingerings *must* be
>>>> defined
>>>> inside a chord construct even if there is only a single note.
>>>>
>>>> you can attach finger numbers to single notes:
>>>>
>>>>    a-1 b-2 c-1-2-3-4 % etc
>>>>
>>>> but you need to put the notes inside chords <> to attach string
>>>> numbers,
>>>> harmonics and right hand fingers, even if it's a single note:
>>>
>>> That is untrue.
>> [...]
>>
>> sorry if I din't make myself clear, I'm not talking about guitar music
>> layout, but just about lilypond syntax:
>>
>> this doesn't work
>>
>>      c4\3
> It does! This avoids a string number indication in standard notation
> and leads to a correct fret number in tablature. See Default
> tablatures in the Notation Reference.

Would seem like a case for a context variable rather than hardwired.

-- 
David Kastrup