Hi Devin,

There have been some discussion about that on the list:
-
http://lilypond-s-support-for-tablatures.3383434.n2.nabble.com/Baroque-lute-tablature-td4008032.html
-
http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Implementing-Baroque-Lute-tablature-td125364.html#a125365

Maybe Trevor would tell you how far he went?

More recently I started something:
http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Ancient-tablature-template-td160034.html#a160096
And added this on the LSR:
http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=920

But, since I'm not a lute player I did not go any further (it was more a
tool to make guitar transcriptions)

There's also a new feature with the v2.19 for additional bass strings, see:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/changes/index.html

HTH.
Cheers,
Pierre



2016-08-18 20:55 GMT+02:00 Devin Ulibarri <devin@ulibarri.website>:

> Hello,
>
> In French Lute tablature (e.g. music of Dowland), the rhythm is:
>
> 1. notated as stems above the staff.
> 2. All the voices are truncated into one (example: if there is quarter
> notes in top voice and half notes in bottom, they would all be notated
> as quarter notes)
> 3. The flags are "double" what modern notation uses, so a quarter note
> has one flag, eighth note has two flags, etc. Half notes have a kind of
> very, very short flag to the left.
> 4. Stems are only indicated when there is a change in rhythmic value. If
> there is a succession of the same rhythmic value, for example, only the
> first note will be stemmed until there is a change (e.g. from eighth to
> quarter, or eighth to half note, etc.)
>
> This is a decent example: http://www.guitarandlute.com/tab.gif
>
> And this is the file that I am working on:
> https://github.com/pikurasa/MutopiaProject/blob/Dowland-
> Fantasie-7-Variatie-Robert-Dowland/ftp/DowlandJ/Lute/
> Fantasies/001/A-Fantasie-1-Robert-two-staves.ly
>
> Does anyone know how to indicate this for the tab staff? Is there a
> stock command that does this or a hack?
>
> And if this feature does not exist, then where is the best place to
> request it?
>
> Thank you,
> Devin
>
>
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