Re: A query about tablature

2023-08-06 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
In fact you can just look at the snippet at https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=848 I've set mine up slightly differently, with letters between the lines, but the principle is the same. But as you see from this snippet, you have to enter the notes and values for the tablature stave, and the note

Re: A query about tablature

2023-08-06 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Thank you, Mark. There is also abctab2ps, which is very simple - you simply enter the tablature letters and note values, and the software does the rest. And it exists for Windows and Linux (probably for MacOS as well). You can see this at https://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/ It allows for

Re: A query about tablature

2023-08-06 Thread Mark Probert
You may wish to consider the Windows application “Fronimo.” It is, arguably, the primary choice of lutenists and those needing such features as you require. The various forms of tablature are an arcane subject of their own and whilst it is a pity LP doesn’t cover them particularly deeply, it

Re: A query about tablature

2023-08-06 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
I'm not quite sure what the "why" refers to: but I'm attempting to typeset some material from a 1607 publication, which in the original has two tablature parts and one score part for each piece. I'm aiming to do several things here: transcribe the publication so that it's easy to read (so with

Re: Need help displaying note names in 2.22

2023-08-06 Thread Silvain Dupertuis
Le 06.08.23 à 16:59, David Kastrup a écrit : Strange... I tried a few things, but did not find a way to make it work. I noticed  2 things : 1. In this association table : chimenames = #`(     ("c" . "C")     ("cis" . "C♯")     ("d" . "D")     ("es" . "E♭") ) It only takes into account

Re: Need help displaying note names in 2.22

2023-08-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Oops, except that this is not going to work in 2.22, since \with-string- transformer is new in 2.24. However, 2.22 is not supported anymore, I would recommend upgrading to 2.24 anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Need help displaying note names in 2.22

2023-08-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le dimanche 06 août 2023 à 18:36 +0200, Robin Bannister a écrit : > David Kastrup wrote: > > > > Note names have changed to use ♯ and ♭ characters, so you need to look > > up "c♯" instead of "cis". > > > I got no hits that way. That's because the sharp sign is printed with \markup

Re: Need help displaying note names in 2.22

2023-08-06 Thread Robin Bannister
David Kastrup wrote: Note names have changed to use ♯ and ♭ characters, so you need to look up "c♯" instead of "cis". I got no hits that way. An alternative is to add printAccidentalNames = #'lily to the NoteNames \with. And if I change the "es" lookup key to the more canonical "ees"

Re: How to center note names horizontally

2023-08-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le dimanche 06 août 2023 à 18:21 +0200, Gerardo Ballabio a écrit : > Hello, is there a way to center note names horizontally around the > corresponding note? > Since I'm using Italian note names they have different lengths, I > believe that centering them would look better. > Example below. The

How to center note names horizontally

2023-08-06 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Hello, is there a way to center note names horizontally around the corresponding note? Since I'm using Italian note names they have different lengths, I believe that centering them would look better. Example below. The space between "sol" and "la" looks particularly awkward (too small). Thank you

Re: Need help displaying note names in 2.22

2023-08-06 Thread Michael Werner
Hi Victor, On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 7:12 PM Viktor Mastoridis < viktor.mastori...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using the syntax below for several years; the last code update > I did was in December 2022, and it worked well since. > Today I noticed that I can't get the sharp/flat note

Re: Need help displaying note names in 2.22

2023-08-06 Thread David Kastrup
Silvain Dupertuis writes: > Strange... > I tried a few things, but did not find a way to make it work. > > I noticed  2 things : > > 1. In this association table : > chimenames = > #`( >     ("c" . "C") >     ("cis" . "C♯") >     ("d" . "D") >     ("es" . "E♭") > ) > It only takes into account

Re: Need help displaying note names in 2.22

2023-08-06 Thread Silvain Dupertuis
Strange... I tried a few things, but did not find a way to make it work. I noticed  2 things : 1. In this association table : chimenames = #`(     ("c" . "C")     ("cis" . "C♯")     ("d" . "D")     ("es" . "E♭") ) It only takes into account notes of names with one single character as the

Re: A query about tablature

2023-08-06 Thread David Kastrup
Alasdair McAndrew writes: > Thank you very much indeed for your offer. I'll try to put something > together: currently my files are split up, so that all common > definitions are in one file, all music in another, and the layout in a > third file (which imports the others). I'll aim to make a

Re: A query about tablature

2023-08-06 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Thank you very much indeed for your offer. I'll try to put something together: currently my files are split up, so that all common definitions are in one file, all music in another, and the layout in a third file (which imports the others). I'll aim to make a simple representative file which

Re: A query about tablature

2023-08-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Given that a normal instrument music definition includes information both > about pitch and about duration - suitable for printing on a standard staff - > why cannot that same input be used to create all the tablature and its rhythm > together? Of course it can. Please give your current code

Re: A query about tablature

2023-08-06 Thread Andrew Bernard
Pardon if inappropriate but you may be better off with lute tablature software, such as https://fandango.musickshandmade.com/index.php After all, it's very close to viol tab. Andrew

A query about tablature

2023-08-06 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
I have been experimenting with typesetting some 17th century music for viol; you can see an example of the sort of music I'm trying to emulate at https://bit.ly/3Ympevo As is common with tablature; there is the tablature stave, showing the positions of the fingers on the fingerboard, and a set