Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-26 Thread Steve Yegge
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Jan Warchoł < lemniskata.bernoulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/11/25 Steve Yegge > >> I bit the bullet and went through all 100-odd guitar music publications >> I've >> collected over the years, from publishers around the world on every >> continent, >> across mul

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-26 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Freitag, 26. November 2010, um 11:08:36 schrieb Phil Holmes: > +1. I use a lot of choral scores, and I don't believe I've ever seen the > correct clef for tenors, which is a treble clef and octave down. Looking at my large collection of vocal scores, it appears that while most older scores

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-26 Thread Phil Holmes
t bother. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Jan Warchoł To: Steve Yegge Cc: lilypond-user Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 9:34 PM Subject: Re: TabStaff feature requests 2010/11/25 Steve Yegge I bit the bullet and went through all 100-odd guitar music publication

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-25 Thread Nick Payne
On 26/11/10 08:34, Jan Warchoł wrote: 2010/11/25 Steve Yegge > I bit the bullet and went through all 100-odd guitar music publications I've collected over the years, from publishers around the world on every continent, across multiple genres (alt

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-25 Thread Jan Warchoł
2010/11/25 Steve Yegge > > I bit the bullet and went through all 100-odd guitar music publications > I've > collected over the years, from publishers around the world on every > continent, > across multiple genres (although admittedly mostly classical and South > American). The set includes many

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-25 Thread Steve Yegge
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Marc Hohl wrote: > >> Thanks; I'll try it. How do I turn off the little "8" symbol by the clef? >> > Why do you want to remove it? This is the standard way of guitar notation. > I bit the bullet and went through all 100-odd guitar music publications I've collec

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-24 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 24.11.2010 15:59, schrieb Steve Yegge: Hi Marc, On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Marc Hohl > wrote: Just for clarification: as the guitar is notated one octave above its sounding pitch, I use the following template: \score { \new StaffGroup <<

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-24 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 24.11.2010 17:16, schrieb Steve Yegge: Sigh... please disregard this. It works fine. I just had the wrong expectations. I assumed incorrectly that for purposes of relative pitch calculation, the harmonics would be ignored, allowing you to focus on the base string pitches. It has to be prop

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/24/10 8:22 AM, "Steve Yegge" wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> On 11/24/10 7:51 AM, "Steve Yegge" wrote: >> After reading Marc's responses I think I see where I may have sewn some confusion.  I have conventional string numbers in the non-tab

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-24 Thread Steve Yegge
Sigh... please disregard this. It works fine. I just had the wrong expectations. I assumed incorrectly that for purposes of relative pitch calculation, the harmonics would be ignored, allowing you to focus on the base string pitches. It requires a bit more arithmetic this way, but it's logical

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-24 Thread Steve Yegge
Hi Marc, I've tried out your patch and it works like a charm! Unfortunately it seems to be happiest in absolute pitch mode. When I switch to relative mode it yields unexpected results. I've modified your harmonic-test.ly to demonstrate the issue. \include "./harmonic.ly" test = { e,4 \harmonic

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-24 Thread Steve Yegge
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 11/24/10 7:51 AM, "Steve Yegge" wrote: > > > After reading Marc's responses I think I see where I may have > > sewn some confusion. I have conventional string numbers in the > > non-tab staff, since my audience is partly classical guita

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/24/10 7:51 AM, "Steve Yegge" wrote: > After reading Marc's responses I think I see where I may have > sewn some confusion.  I have conventional string numbers in the > non-tab staff, since my audience is partly classical guitarists who > cannot (or do not) read tab.  So the information I'm

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-24 Thread Steve Yegge
Hi Marc, On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Marc Hohl wrote: > >> Just for clarification: as the guitar is notated one octave above its > sounding pitch, > I use the following template: > > \score { > \new StaffGroup << >\new Staff { > \new Voice { \global \clef "treble_8" >

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-24 Thread Steve Yegge
After reading Marc's responses I think I see where I may have sewn some confusion. I have conventional string numbers in the non-tab staff, since my audience is partly classical guitarists who cannot (or do not) read tab. So the information I'm providing is redundant -- it's for two separate audi

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-24 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Am 24.11.2010 um 07:13 schrieb Steve Yegge: Hi Patrick, this sounds awesome. I think it will be very useful. However, I also think that Marc Hohl's suggestion is more general and would in fact cover many more of the use cases I have in mind. I think it might be appropriate to implement both o

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 24.11.2010 06:25, schrieb Steve Yegge: [...] \include "english.ly " music = \relative c { 1 } \score { << \new Staff { \music } \new TabStaff { \transpose c c, { \music } } >> } Just for clarification: as the guitar is notated one octave above i

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-23 Thread Steve Yegge
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Marc Hohl wrote: > Am 23.11.2010 08:37, schrieb Steve Yegge: > >> Hi all, >> > Hi Steve, > >> >> 1) Setting fixed strings to use for ascending/descending chords. >> Currently it's nontrivial to specify tab positions for something like: >> >> >> >> >> [...

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-23 Thread Steve Yegge
Hi Patrick, this sounds awesome. I think it will be very useful. However, I also think that Marc Hohl's suggestion is more general and would in fact cover many more of the use cases I have in mind. I think it might be appropriate to implement both of them. Marc's suggestion from earlier in the t

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-23 Thread Steve Yegge
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 11/23/10 12:37 AM, "Steve Yegge" wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > The TabStaff is amazingly cool. I'm not a big tab user myself, > > but for people who want tabs, LilyPond makes it easy to add them. > > > > I've been busily adding tabs for

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/23/10 12:37 AM, "Steve Yegge" wrote: > Hi all, > > The TabStaff is amazingly cool.  I'm not a big tab user myself, > but for people who want tabs, LilyPond makes it easy to add them. > > I've been busily adding tabs for a few months and have some feature > requests to put into the queue i

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-23 Thread Bernardo Barros
May I append my feature request here? I would support this fix if anyone would be interested in fixing it! There is a bug in tablature when you choose a quarter tone scordatura, the pitches are not always represented correctly. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-23 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Steve, Am 23.11.2010 um 08:37 schrieb Steve Yegge: Hi all, The TabStaff is amazingly cool. I'm not a big tab user myself, but for people who want tabs, LilyPond makes it easy to add them. I've been busily adding tabs for a few months and have some feature requests to put into the queue if

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 23.11.2010 08:37, schrieb Steve Yegge: Hi all, Hi Steve, The TabStaff is amazingly cool. I'm not a big tab user myself, but for people who want tabs, LilyPond makes it easy to add them. I've been busily adding tabs for a few months and have some feature requests to put into the queue if p

TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-23 Thread Steve Yegge
Hi all, The TabStaff is amazingly cool. I'm not a big tab user myself, but for people who want tabs, LilyPond makes it easy to add them. I've been busily adding tabs for a few months and have some feature requests to put into the queue if possible. 1) Setting fixed strings to use for ascending/