Hello everyone, I'm typesetting one of the Bach Lute Suites with guitar fingering and would like to upload it to the Icking Archive in time for the anniversary of Werner's death. However, I'm running into problems with certain fingering instructions, and I hope that one of the TeX gods on the list can help.
The attached file (string.tex) contains a hack of the MusixTeX
\Ioctfin macros, which Werner Icking came up with for me to be able to
typeset barre chord symbols for classical guitar notation. The result
is that \Ibarre... \Tbarre will set a horizontal line with a downward
vertical termination to indicate the duration of the barre, and this
is exactly what the doctor ordered.
The problems start when I try to adapt this thing to denote string
number rather than barre chord -- replacing the barre chord symbol in
front of the line (a C with a vertical slash followed by a Roman
numeral for the fret number and a subscript Arabic numeral for the
number of strings that fall under the barre) with a circled numeral.
The horizontal line is then supposed to indicate a sequence of notes
all to be played on the same string. But two problems arise:
1. The horizontal line overstrikes the circled numeral.
2. The vertical termination *always* points downwards, and this looks
pretty awful when the string specification is inserted below the
staff.
Can Werner's bit of magic be adapted to solve these problems? (Any
alterations and improvements would HAVE to leave the vertical
termination intact for the barre chord notation. However, it would be
perfectly OK to have just a horizontal line without a hook in the case
of the string specification.)
I'd be most grateful for a solution.
Eva Jaksch
--
"Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be
happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements."
-- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001
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