Re: Help beautify my fingering chart

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Richard Hogg
To: address@hidden
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 3:17 AM
Subject: Help beautify my fingering chart

> I'm working on a saxophone fingering chart, but I have
> some problems:
>
> 1) If trying to place an accidental next to a note
> (B\flat, C\sharp, etc.) my only two (apparent) options
> are to include it in a column, in which case the
> accidental appears below the letter, or I have to
> leave the note name beside the finger diagram.  As a
> result I've notated as A-flat, etc.

As in my example below, use concat { } to make the letter and accidental 
into a single string.

> 2) If a note has an alternative fingering I'm trying
> to make both fingerings appear above the measure with
> the corresponding note.  If using the previously
> mentioned column, the diagrams are stacked.  If not,
> they're squished too close together.

Try concat here, too?

> 3) If two notes have the same fingering (C#/Db, F#/Gb,
> etc.), I can't make the notes appear together (e.g.
> two notes on the same stem)

Write them as a chord

> 4) Is there any way to center everything (note, name,
> diagram) within each measure?

I expect someone else will suggest something here.

> I have attached my code below.  Thank you in advance
> for your help.

It would have been easier if you'd only included the diagrams you were 
dissatified with....

Here's some code showing 1) and 3) fixed, I think,

\version "2.16.0"
\header{
title = "Saxophone Fingering Chart"
}
\layout {
indent = 0.0\cm
}
\relative c'' {
\textLengthOn
\set Score.timing = ##f
\override Staff.TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t
<cis des>1
^\markup {
\center-column {
\concat { C \sharp } \concat { D \flat }
" "
\woodwind-diagram
#'saxophone
#'((lh . (cis))
(cc . (one two three four five six))
(rh . (low-c)))
}
}  \bar "||"
}


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Phil Holmes