Re: TabStaff feature requests

[Marc Hohl]

Am 23.11.2010 08:37, schrieb Steve Yegge:
> Hi all,
Hi Steve,
> The TabStaff is amazingly cool.  I'm not a big tab user myself,
> but for people who want tabs, LilyPond makes it easy to add them.
>
> I've been busily adding tabs for a few months and have some feature
> requests to put into the queue if possible.
>
> 1) Setting fixed strings to use for ascending/descending chords.
> Currently it's nontrivial to specify tab positions for something like:
>
> <c c'> <d d'> <e e'> <f f'>
> <g g'> <a a'> <b b'> <c c'>
>
> [...]
Hm, I don't know how you would invoke such a feature - perhaps like
(pseudo-syntax!)
\useStrings #'(3 5)
to tell lilypond only to use these strings within the fret number 
calculation?
Sounds interesting, but I don't know how to implement it.
> 2) Have the automatic tab calculator understand the -0 fingering.
> Currently if you do something like this:
+1
> 3) Being able to specify the frets for harmonics.  I know there's been
> some talk about this, but it's a pretty big deal as there's no workaround.
> Anyone planning on publishing in the next few months (e.g., me :)
> is going to be out of luck.
I wrote such a extension, which is still in some beta state, so it would 
be great if you
give it a try and tell me whether it works well in real-life situations. 
You can get it here:

http://lilypond-s-support-for-tablatures.3383434.n2.nabble.com/harmonics-in-tablature-tp5518526p5578089.html

By the way, there is a mailing list especially for tablature concerns:

http://lists.lilynet.net/tablatures

Regards,

Marc