Hi, I'm working on a piece for Pat Waing, a traditional instrument from Myanmar consisting of 20 tuned drums. Musicians from Myanmar use a special form of notation, using numbers for the pitches with dots underneath or above indicating the octave.
I would like to find a generic way to notate the music in lilypond using a special Staff with no staff lines, preferably with a transcription into western notation in a seperate staff above. The attached image shows an example: the bottom "staff" contains the Myanmar notation, the western staff above the transcription. The music should ideally be written in Western notation in the lilypond sources, but be presented/rendered as shown in the attached image. I assume some sort of Tabulature has to be created to accommodate this and I'm open to any suggestions. As the traditional notation often also uses horizontal beams below a group of numbers to indicate rhythms (mainly eighth or sixteenth, used without stems) my first thought was to notate the music with special noteheads and invisible stems. As all noteheads should get engraved on the same vertical position the notehead markup needs to have the correct vertical offset from its default position, but to me this seems like an ugly hack. Here is my first attempt on realizing the markup: 8<--------------------------------------------------------------------- \version "2.19" pwaa = \markup { \abs-fontsize #10 { \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.5) \center-column { {} {2} {.} {.}} }} pwab = \markup { \abs-fontsize #10 { \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.5) \center-column { {} {2} {.} {}} }} pwac = \markup { \abs-fontsize #10 { \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.5) \center-column { {} {2} {} {}} }} pwad = \markup { \abs-fontsize #10 { \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.8) \center-column { {.} {2} {} {}} }} {\clef "bass" \relative c { \time 4/4 g_\pwaa g'_\pwab \clef "G" g'_\pwac g'_\pwad } } 8<--------------------------------------------------------------------- Any help is appreciated! Best, Orm
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