Actually it was more this thread that covers formatting issues: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-01/msg00266.html <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-01/msg00266.html>
Alex > On 4 Nov 2024, at 23:52, Alex Harker <ajhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Walt, > > I’m just starting to get into this so there’s still a lot to figure out. I am > using a tab staff with a custom tuning and there are some previous threads > I’d found useful: > > The most notable is this one which has given me various clues as to how to > format in a variety of potentially more relevant ways to some of the pedal > steel conventions (should that be necessary in my case). > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-01/msg00246.html > > In this thread the notation is dealt with separately for tab and stave > notation and the alterations are applied to the notes in the tab (and not the > tuning). I think I will likely write some scheme code that is able to do this > kind of thing automatically (given a string specification per note and some > way of indicating pedals). Changing the tuning temporally would be more > correct, but it’s likely easier to change the music going into the tab system > than to mess with that - I will look at that as an option though. The thread > above shows how to put pedals in the tab next to frets, but I think I’ll end > up with them under the stave, partly due to the details I’d like to add to > them. > > I’m not a pedal steel player at all, and my usage is pretty esoteric > (musically and likely in terms of the look of the score), so I’m just in a > notation research phase to figure it out. I’ve got a lot of experience as a > programmer in general, but my lilypond knowledge is more limited, so I’m > hoping (as in the past) that my determination will get me through. In a > previous project I made a custom look woodwind fingering by modifying what is > in the internal scm as a separate file for instance. > > Happy to share what I come up with in this case if it might be of use. > > Alex > >> On 4 Nov 2024, at 23:32, Walt North <waltno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I don't have an answer to your question but I am curious how are you >> handling the varying string pitch changes related to pedal usage. I assume >> you are using TabStaff with custom turnings. Do you switch back and forth >> between custom turnings when pedals are pressed or released? Just a general >> question because I've been hesitant so far to dive into tabs for my pedal >> steel. I've also have not experimented yet with non-re entrant E9 tuning. >> I have found tabstaff works fairly well for lap steel tabs with c6th and D7. >> >> >> Walt North >> >
