I very rarely ever see the ottava bassa on classical guitar piece. When I
see it, I am not thrown off by it. In my template I used a normal trble
clef and set the tranposition to -12. I will use ottava bassa if That is
the more proper thing to do.

Jeremiah
On Jan 16, 2016 3:23 AM, "Richard Shann" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 22:55 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > template for classical guitar.
>
> Classical guitar has a quirk: it should be in the treble ottava bassa
> clef (i.e. with an italic 8 underneath the treble clef) but that is
> often omitted in sloppy typesets. It needs to be there to avoid the
> music being entered an octave out; we could with some effort provide a
> template that used the correct pitches but drew the clef without the 8
> for those who find the 8 irritating. (The problem would start to show if
> someone was doing chamber music including guitar ...)
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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