tablature with lilypond

[studio32]

from lilypond user mailinglist: topic: news concerning bends

Hello tablature users,

I have extended the bends; attached is an example.
Let me know what you think about it.

Some technical aspects: I am still (mis)using slurs
for the bends, and I wonder if this could be the right way
(first, I thought that we will need another engraver in the future,
but as the bend amount is now placed properly, the spacing of the
normal staff vs. the tablature staff is set right automatically).
Perhaps there will be commands like \bendSlurOn ... \bendSlurOff
which enable the bends and the bends themselves are coded
as slurd: c( d)

Here is the input I used:

\paper {
indent = 0
ragged-right = ##f }
test = \relative c'' {
c4 ( d )( c2 )
c4\2 ( d\2 )( c2\2 )
c4\3 ( des\3 )( c2\3 ) \break
c,4\4 ( d\4 )( c2\4 )
c4\5 ( d\5 )( c2\5 )
c4\6 ( d\6 )( c2\6 ) \break
c4 ( cis) d ( es )
c4 ( es) e( gis )
c,4 ( cih ) c4 ( cisih )

Please take note of the fact that the bend routine distinguishes bend up/bend down
automatically.

As I have discussed with David, I will share the internals with you all to play around
with the parameters for arrow size, lenght of the horizontal part of the bend arrow,
font sizes etc., but as this extensions base on the (yet unavailable) tablature support,
my code won't compile on your computers.
Carl, when will the patch be ready to be applied?

TODO: In the next steps, I will play with grace notes, and I have some ideas how to
implement pre bends and combined bends (e.g. c ( d)( es ). The quarter tone bends
sould lead to a bendAfter sign in the normal staff, so quarter tone bends can be done
in the same way as every other interval.

Any suggestions/improvements/ideas etc. are welcome.

Stay tuned!

Marc

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&pid=gm ... tion%2Fpdf

[studio32]

Some find this interesting maybe. Nice thing about open source... others jump in and are able to change the code to their needes...

So they are busy with old Baroque tablature and also Ukulele....

Brummer?

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