Dag Jelma (leer ze continuo spelen, dat is beter voor iedereen, ook voor jou :-) et al.
What Doc wrote seems like a simple, quick way. This is what I wrote to Suzanne off-list, it looks like the opposite. The attachement is not included as the list does not allow it. Finale is great software for staff notation and page layout. Lute tab is a a bit of bother, though, but I use it anyway. There are several approaches to notating tab for more than 6 courses. Over the years I've changed between a number of these. Some people use (make, even) nice fonts, I try to live with what Finale offers. Find attached file containing some of the things I describe below. 1) Set the tab for the desired number of courses: Staff Tool > Staff Attributes > Notation Style > Tablature > Select > Edit Instrument Then, in Staff Tool > Staff Attributes > Staff > Other > Staff Setup > Set Staff Lines at 6 (and set Top repeat dot at -3 and bottom repeat dot at -7) Enter your music in your usual way. Make a set of Articulations (or use the ones from the Tablature Libraries) for /, // and /// or for /a, //a, ///a. (I prefer to draw these articulations, as the spacing of two or three forward slashes is too wide). Attach these manually to the low basses. This will not look good, as the glyphs on courses 8 to 10 are placed to low. To fix this, either move them manually to the right position, or change the note head to an invisible one (Special Tool > Note Shape Tool > Click a measure > Select a note > Select Symbol (choose an empty shape, e.g. nr 1). I'm sure this process can be automated. 2) Set tablature for an 8-course lute, display only six lines (see above). Enter (or change) notes on courses 8 to 10 as if they were all glyph a (or b if so desired) on course 8. Then attach articulations /, // or /// as desired. You can place the articulations automatically at a desired distance from the note head (Articulation Tool > Edit > Articulation Designer > Positioning). Take your time once to figure out what looks best, then copy these values for all like articulations). This way you don't have to replace note heads by invisible ones, and also setting articulations with automated distance goes really fast, but the notes on screen and are no longer representing the real pitches within the file. If you like to use playback, you might want to make two separate files. There are many more ways. Most need time to set up, but once done, you can save all in a template and forget all about how you made it in the first place. Good luck and don't hesitate to ask if the above is unclear, David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
