Re: Tab one octave off?

[Lamy Jean-Baptiste]

On 2002.08.23 00:29:38 +0200 Rune Zedeler wrote:
> Lamy Jean-Baptiste wrote:
> 
> > But please can you go further and explain me what is the "G_8" ? I have
> > only a very limited musical knowledge, and i have never used
> > non-tablature-based system.
> 
> Don't worry about this - this is one of the things that currently works 
> as it should in lilypond.
> Problem is that former music often was notated one octave off so that 
> one wrote c'' when one really meant c'. Lilypond now uses the correct 
> octave as it (imho - and in davids ho) should.
> If one really NEEDS to write music one octave off then one can do so by 
> using the lilypond transpose-command - as i explained to david in an 
> earlier posting.
> 
> -Rune

Guitar tabs are effectively one octave above staff. Adding a G_8 key fixes
my problem !

Thank you all !

Jiba