David Nalesnik <david.nales...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi Philip, > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Philip Eliot <philip.el...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I would agree, hence the question. I thought there might be a built in >> option to do that. Having searched through the documentation, I'm fairly >> certain there is no built in way to do it. At one point in the >> documentation, it has an example of using \mark "II" to mark string numbers >> on a violin score. While not only clunsier than being able to take >> advantage of the \2 string notation, it also didn't work for me because I >> am writing for mandolin not violin, and have a parallel tab staff. The >> built in \2 string number notation leads to correct tab notation, while the >> \mark "II" would not. >> >> Your solution was simple and elegant, perhaps it is worth suggesting it be >> implemented as an option in a future release? >> > I'm thinking about it, but in my (limited) experience nothing is ever > simple when it comes to working it into the code base. One thing that > occurs to me is that string designations for bowed instruments aren't > generally circled, so there would probably need to be a property 'no-circle > (along with 'roman-numeral). Things would get considerably more complex if > naming by string-pitch were supported.
I think we had more or less all of that for fret numbers in tablature. Would probably make sense to recycle/unify that mechanism. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
