On Friday 23 January 2004 12:17, pd wrote: > Hello, > and sorry for starting the same thread once again (I haven't > been subscribed to the list when posting for the first time...) > > I *have* read "Fingering instructions" in the manual, > and that's why I try to get help from you, wise people! > > Usually guitar fingering instructions for left hand are marked > with numbers, placed right above the note head, or to the left > of the note head; but always close to the note head, and not > above or below the stem.
Usually, yes. The traditional way is that the finger indication for a note is the closest one to *its* notehead, but that doesn't rule out fingering near some of the stem ends altogether, especially for the right hand. Stacking numbers above a chord, however, is a very unwelcome innovation common in software, AYWK. > Placing the fingering numbers manually by means of extra-offset > property is, well, somewhat tedious work. Indeed it is, causing me to suspend some projects. > In addition, \property Voice.fingeringOrientations = #'(right, > left) works only for chords (at least this is what I have > observed) > > So, if someone has any ideas how to tackle the problem, please > share! I hope that a chord of one note will do it. If not, you have a bug. > I have searched some lilypond music repositories for the guitar, > but to my surprise, there is almost no fingering instructions in > scores! I hope guitarists use lilypond for making sheet music, > and not something else... All of these. Look at my website. I have the .ly code up for the Bouree. There was a way. The ten lessons are such a dog's dinner that I didn't post the .ly code, but I will when I get back to it. daveA -- Two million enemy women and children dead in our 12-year struggle to hand over Iraq to the backers of "fundamentalists" and terrorists. Iraq will surely be a prime source of cannon fodder for the annihilation of Israel. D. Raleigh Arnold dra@ (http://www.) openguitar.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
