Re: Entering (lute) tablature

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup wrote Saturday, March 18, 2017 10:36 PM
>>
>>
>>> So here is a sketch of entering this score by tab:
>>
>> Looks good and seems to work well.
>>  
>>> Pretty sure I entered stuff wrong here (there is some programming error,
>>> too) and probably did not decipher all of the tab correctly.  Anybody
>>> wanting to proofread?
>>
>> I could see only one issue - in bar 16 there is a spurious Bb I think.
>> It seems to be just a smudge in the original score, so I deleted it.
>
> Yes, I chose the same.  Not sure whether it's some sort of embellishment
> though.
>
>> I attach a rerendering for lute using your file and a cobbled-together
>> toy engraver I wrote for outputting lute tab. (I had to change only
>> the octavation.)  This makes checking the data entry very easy by
>> straight comparison with the original.
>
> With xpdf, I see a fat display font for fret letters (and I find the use
> of r for c rather confusing).  With the default PDF viewer "Atril"
> (Evince for the Mate desktop) on my desktop, I only see empty spaces.
>
> So something seems to be amiss with the font embedding.

Here is my version using

    \new TabStaff \with { stringTunings = \lute-tuning
                          tablatureFormat = #fret-letter-tablature-format
                          fretLabels = \markuplist \bold \fontsize #3 \lower 
#0.2
                          { 𝔞 𝔟 𝔠 𝔡 𝔢 𝔣 𝔤 𝔥 𝔦 𝔨 𝔩 𝔪 𝔫 𝔬 𝔭 }
                        } \content

(\bold does not seem to work, however):

tabber.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

-- 
David Kastrup