That looks nice, too. In many guitar books, though, I see it placed at the top, especially if other strings need to be downtuned also, like a lot of metal guitarists do.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Nick Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > I prefer to have the indication just to the left of the first stave, and for > this I set the instrument name, as it automatically gets placed correctly: > > \relative c' { > \clef "treble_8" > \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup \bold { \circle {6} "= D " } > c1 > } > > Nick > > On 04/02/10 06:28, Brett McCoy wrote: >> >> I have a score where I need to indicate Drop D tuning for the guitar >> (6th string is tuned down to D). The typical way this is indicated in >> guitar music is a (6) = D (circle with a 6 in it = D), placed at the >> top left of page 1 under the title, but above a tempo mark. I am >> relatively new to Lilypond and am unsure how to do this... any >> suggestions? >> > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ "In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world." -- Jelaleddin Rumi _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
