On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Patrick Schmidt <p.l.schm...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Graham, > > I moved the tab clef to fretted-strings and the percussion clef to percussion > for the following reasons: > > 1) (in a strict sense) they don't display pitches (1.1.3 Displaying pitches)
That's a nice argument, but it doesn't seem to be true: \relative c' { \clef percussion c2 d e f \clef tab c2 d e f } I can see different pitches. I'll grant that the TAB is fairly useless like this... I suppose a contemporary composer might want to use it and put some different text there, but they might as well use an alto clef and override the clef glyph. > 3) They are special purpose clefs. They don't make sense (to me) in a normal > staff. A composer might want to indicate that a violinist should play wood blocks during a symphony? Some pieces have the strings doubling percussive instruments like that. > 4) the examples in the clef section were a bit confusing as pitch 'c' is > displayed on the middle line of the staff when these two clefs are used. Isn't that exactly what's supposed to happen? At least for percussion; I don't know about tab. I've moved percussion back into Clef. I don't mind keeping TAB separate. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel