David and Rune, what do you think of the Han-Wen's proposition (Identifying strings by their note name) ?
If you are right, i'll work on it in about 2 weeks (after my exams). Jiba > > > strings by notenames: > > > > > > e4-c > > > > That's what I like, but many have more than one of a given name, > > which makes an arbitrary 1-9 a-z a better choice. Many > > instruments, actually all of them with only 3 strings, have two > > strings tuned to the exact same note. > > The higher string could use the pitch with octavation quote; that is > consistent with the rest of lily > > > > would be the E played on the C string. In this way, the string > > > designations are independent of other strings that are added or > > > removed, and fingerings are independent of the tablature. > > > > That would be g'^4-e or g'^4-1 or g'^4-m where m is for mi, since > > the guitar has two E strings. ^4 is in the notation and 3 is in > > the tablature. ^4 is a fingering indication, 3 is the fret the > > note is on. Not independent. Not the same thing. > > Yes, but you can use them both, that's what I mean with independent. > > > As I posted long ago, English lute tab used abcdefghi... instead of > > 0123456789 10 11 12... for frets. That also could be settable: > > This a different topic, and IIRC lily can already produce letters for > frets. _______________________________________________ Lilypond-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
