Hi Blake,

unfortunately the only thing we can do now is to add this to our issue tracker.
Dear Bugsquad, should this be added as a comment to
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=703
or as a new issue?
Carl, i dare to cc you because you are knowledgeable on Frets (and
also the issue mentioned is yours).

thanks,
Janek

2011/6/17 Blake Thornton <bl...@math.wustl.edu>:
> Has anyone done anything with Lilypond for tab for diatonic instruments like
> the mountain dulcimer (there must be others, but dulcimer is what I'm
> interested in).  Basically, the instrument is missing some of the frets that
> would be on a chromatic instrucment (and, not all are the same). So, the
> standard fretting would be something like:
>        W W H W W H W W
> So, my string that is tuned open to D has the notes:
>        D (open), E, F#, G, A, B, C D E
> These fret numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc.  Obviously if I was happy
> numbering these with their chromatic equivalents (2, 4, etc) then there
> wouldn't be a problem.
>
>  I can think of several possibilities of what I would consider a solution
> but I have no idea where to start.
>
> 1) Ideally I would like to tell lilypond what frets I have available and
> what they are called (this would allow me to call a fret a "1+" instead of a
> 2 or a 3, which is what ).
>
> 2) Or, as a compromise, can I just enter numbers in for the frets instead of
> notes.  This would at least let me enter the music in normally but then
> enter the tab in as numbers.  This would not let me transpose on the fly,
> but it would at least print out something nice.
>
> Thanks!
> Blake
>
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