Re: arabic tabs?

[Thomas Morley]

2015-08-09 14:31 GMT+02:00 BB <address@hidden>:
> I found two possibilities to write arabic accidentals in the Notation
> reference.
> 2.10.1 Common notation for non-Western music
> \include "makam.ly"
> with English names (c d ...),
> and
> 2.10.2 Arabic music
> using the Italian names ( do re ...)
>
> Both hard to remember the different postfixes, but works anyway. I myself
> prefer the English name version.
>
> As a nonarabic Oud player I am interested in tabs with quarter tones. I was
> thinking about how to do this and found, that one might set a sign for half
> flat oder half sharp before the fret number in the tab. So I will be
> remembered to take care for that quarter tones. Well, fretless instruments
> do not have frets, but an equivalent finger set.
>
> Does anybody have such a solution or another one?
>
> Regards,
> BB


Hi,

attached you'll find my attempt for a such a tab.
It's based on `determine-frets' from translation-functions.scm

There's surely wide room for improvements and maybe the one or other glitch ...


Cheers,
  Harm

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