Re: Lute tablature

[Mats Bengtsson]

> I still didn't get the complete picture for lilypond: It's possible to use 
> letters instead of numbers including the omission of stems. Is it correct 
> that it is not possible to add the rhythm horizontal above the lines
> I didn't try anything like this yet. 

I'm not sure what layout you want here, but if you just want the note
heads, stems and flags but no staff lines printed on a separate line,
that's easy. Take a look at the example file
input/test/rhythm-excercise.ly at 
http://lilypond.org/stable/input/test/out-www/test.html
You could easily put one such line on top of a normal stave or a
tab stave.

> Would it also be possible to use numbers but the concept 180 degrees rotated? 
> I.e. the first open string indicated by 'a' of the first line converted into 
> '0' on the 6th line (this is the so-called 'italian' tablature).

You have to write a few lines of Scheme code (a programming languate
similar to LISP) to get this. I actually think I saw an example in
an earlier email in this particular email discussion.

   /Mats