Re: baroque french tab support

[Colin Hall]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:02:23PM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi all !
> 
> As Mike asked us some work for his long travel accross the seas, I've
> asked him to automate some tricks to obtain accurate french tabs (for
> the viol and lute especially). Here are the requirements :
> 
> - letters instead of figures (already done)
> - upper string on top (already done)
> - letters above the dedicated line and under the next line
> - after letter "i" is letter "k" (no "j")
> - the ancient "r" used instead of "c" (because of confusion with
> letter "e") can be abandonned because engraving is now ok
> - rythms are indicated above the staff just once as long as it remains
> the same (a new indication occurs when value changes).Rythm indication
> is mandatory for the first note after each barline. As barlines are not
> linked to time signature, it would be usefull to have a command that
> forces rythm indication (just like forcing accidental with !)
> - letters with descenders have to be adapted ("b", "d", "h", ...)
> as it can be seen here :
> http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/73285 (HUME) and there :
> http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/98846 (Corkine). I think
> these two examples show the same alphabet which could be fairly used for
> this support.

Thanks for the enhancement request, see new tracker here:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3065

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall
Bug Squad