Re: Guitar right-hand fingering

[Peter Bjuhr]

On 2015-03-17 11:00, Peter Bjuhr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed that in the documentation about right-hand fingerings 
> in the common notation for fretted strings: 
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-fretted-strings#right_002dhand-fingerings 
> the fifth finger isn't mentioned.
>
> I also tried|\rightHandFinger #5| and an 'x' was printed. As I 
> understand it 'x' is printed for all non supported numbers. But 
> although perhaps not so common the fifth finger is used (with the 
> letter 'c'):
>
> 1 = p = pulgar,     2 = i = índice,     3 = m = mayor,     4 = a = 
> anular,    5 = c = chiquito
>
> My hope in writing this is that this could be easily added to 
> LilyPond. One can of course easily use markup instead, but I think it 
> would be nice for the sake of completeness.

On second thought, I know everyone here is busy with other tasks. If 
someone would point me in the right direction I'll take a look myself 
and hopefully come up with a proposing patch.

Best
Peter