Re: PATCH: Improved tablature support

[Trevor Daniels]

Carl Sorensen wrote Friday, August 07, 2009 2:49 PM

> On 8/5/09 7:19 AM, "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Carl Sorensen wrote Wednesday, August 05, 2009 1:42 PM
> >
> > > If we decide to use this same function for the general case of
> > > switching to
> > > a cross-shaped notehead, then we will redefine it to either
> > > crossHead or
> > > xHead, but we will still keep deadNote (the semantically correct
> > > term for
> > > guitar tablature) as an alias for xHead.
> > I think it was a pity that the groundwork
> > for a more generic approach was not laid
> > down right away, so we could have easily
> > added the aliases for all the other uses
> > of crossheads
>
> The generic approach has now been pushed to git
>
> 247f0b6d46fd8f3253a99f95a70ce14345daa5f9
>
> There's a generic styledNoteHeads music function that applies a 
> note style
> to music whether or not it's in a chord construct.
>
> deadNotes and palmMute have been redefined to use the generic 
> functions
> instead of a specific function.

Carl, that's great!  Thanks!  It would have
taken me a month to work out how to do that.

> > I'd be happy to document it, add aliases,
> > and flesh out NR 2 wherever crossheads are
> > used.
>
> Please feel free to add aliases and flesh out NR 2 wherever 
> special music
> heads are used (crosses is one example; harmonics might be 
> another).

Fine.  The changes are all in Scheme so I can
easily update my copy of Lily without waiting
for a GUB release.  I've got family commitments
over the weekend, but I'll get to this next week.

> But we're hoping to get one of the members of the tablature user 
> community
> to develop the tablature documentation once 2.13.4 is released.

OK - I'll leave tabs alone.

Trevor