Han-Wen, GuitarTab, BassGuitarTab certainly make sense. I haven't seen tab for twelve string, but it might be out there. It certainly won't hurt to have it. 5 string basses are common enough that you might want to handle those explicitly. I would not bother with 6 strings (or more) basses or 7 string guitars.
FiveStringBanjo makes sense too, but you might need some additional conventions to control it. First off, the 5th string not a low note, it is actually a high drone. It only reaches to the 8th fret. It is never (well almost never) fingered. Instead it is played open. So any rule for assigning to it should only assign the correct open note. The second problem is that there is heavy use of alternative tunings and capos on the banjo, especially in clawhammer style. The most common tuning is gDGBD (the lower case first letter g signifying the drone). Banjo tab will generally have something like the following about where the tempo description would be: Capo: 2 Tuning: gDGBD I think that supporting capoing and alternative tunings on top of a base instrument description might be useful. It makes constructing the template for this a little easier. I don't know if music for the various 4 string banjos is generally written in tab or not. Anyone? How about mandolin, mandola or bouzouki? There is another thing that I have found to be a nuicance when scoring for tab. With the guitar and bass guitar it is common to put conventional notation and tab together. If you do this from the same notes, you either give control of string choices over to lilypond (almost always a bad move) or you get a slew of warnings about how the string selection is being ignored when the notes are included in the conventional staff. Because the warning is done in 2 lines of output, I can't even get rid of all the junk by piping stderr to grep -v. Could you eliminate those warnings? On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:31:44 +0200 > From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Tab ? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > A question for the string players out there: would it make sense to > make separate Tab contexts for different instruments, i.e. > > \context GuitarTab > \context BanjoTab > \context FourStringTab > \context TwelveStringGuitarTab > > If yes, what different Tab Staves are needed, and what are their > characteristics (tuning, string ordering, etc.) > > > -- > > Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen > -- Dick Schoeller mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://schoeller.ne.client2.attbi.com/ 781.449.5476 "Er ist ein Narr, der meint, es sei nicht schad, das Kind auszuschutten mit dem Bad" - Thomas Murner 1512 _______________________________________________ Lilypond-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
