The above example shows you how to set the TabStaff to four strings,
tuned as you asked.
Thank you very much for this. However, I can't get it to work :(.
For starters, I told you the wrong notation for the tuning. Mandolin
tuning, like violin, is GDAE from the G below middle C (top space on the
bass clef) to E above high C (top space on the treble clef). In
Lilypond-ese, this worked for me to get the notes right:
g-1 d'-2 a'-3 e''-4
The tablature should be four ascending open string notes, i.e., the
simplest thing possible.
1) Everything is shifted down by one line -- the first note is printed a
line space below the real bottom line, the second note is printed on
the bottom line instead of the second-to-bottom line, and so on.
2) the fret numbers are 15 17 19 21 instead of 0 0 0 0, whatever
is assigned to the #'stringTunings property. I don't know if what I
have below is actually correct, but right now the numbers are getting
ignored, as far as I can tell.
Kevin Knaus kindly sent me an example banjo tablature of Cripple Creek
which fixes problem #1 for him by prepending an additional item to
the stringTunings list. But that didn't work for me :(.
Here's the source, such as it is. I put the output at
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~karl/simple.png and
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~karl/simple.pdf.
Further help would still be greatly appreciated :).
Thanks,
k
\version "1.6.0"
part = \notes {
g-1 d'-2 a'-3 e''-4
}
\score {
\context StaffGroup <
\context Staff <
% Hide fingering number
\property Staff.Fingering \override #'transparent = ##t
\part
>
\context TabStaff <
\property Staff.Stem \override #'direction = #-1 % stems below frets
\outputproperty #(make-type-checker 'staff-symbol-interface)
#'line-count = #4
\outputproperty #(make-type-checker 'Tab_note_heads_engraver)
#'stringTunings = #'(-10 -6 -2 2)
\part
>
>
}
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