Re: Tuning description at beginning of TabStaff

[Stefan E. Mueller]

Thanks Valentin and Federico for your suggestions and examples -

I needed to tweak things a little bit in order to line up the letters to
the tablature lines.

This is what I came up with:

\new TabStaff  \with {
\override InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = #RIGHT
instrumentName = \markup {\center-column {
  " "
  \raise #-0.4
 "Ac. Guitar"
 \override #'(font-size . -1.5)
 "(Double Drop-D)"
 " "
} \override #'(font-size . -3.2) \override #`(baseline-skip . 1.5)
\override #'(font-name . "Arial")
\raise #-1.2 \right-column {
  "d" \raise #-0.1 "b"  "g" \raise #-0.2 "D" "A" "D"
}}
      shortInstrumentName = "git"
  } {
     \set TabStaff.stringTunings = \stringTuning <d, a, d g b d'>
     {d,8\6 d'\2 d\4 d'\1  d,8\6 d'\2 d4\4 } }
> >
}

This works for me, but I wonder if the vertical position of the individual
tablature lines could be accessed and used for the positioning of the
letters instead of doing things by hand.

        Stefan

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Stefan E. Mueller

stefan.e.mueller@gmx.de

On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Federico Bruni wrote:

> Il giorno dom 29 gen 2023 alle 22:20:14 +0100, Stefan E. Mueller
> <stefan.e.mueller@gmx.de> ha scritto:
> > What I would like to know is whether it is possible to give the tuning
> > notes right before the first Tabstaff, vertically aligned to the tablature
> > lines. I tried accomplish this using "instrumentName", but it does not
> > align nicely:
>
> Here's my saved list of alternative tunings:
>
> % Dropped D
> tuningDropD = \markup {
> \fontsize #-4
> \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5)
> \column \override #'(font-name . "Arial Bold") {
>   E B G D A D
> }
> }
>
> % Open G
> tuningOpenG = \markup {
> \fontsize #-4
> \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5)
> \column \override #'(font-name . "Arial Bold") {
>   D B G D G D
> }
> }
>
> % Open D
> tuningOpenD = \markup {
> \fontsize #-4
> \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5)
> \column \override #'(font-name . "Arial Bold") {
>   D A \concat { F \override #'(font-name . "Emmentaler-16") \small ♯ } D A
> D
> }
> }
>
> % Open E
> guitar-open-e-tuning = \stringTuning <e, b, e e b e'>
> tuningOpenE = \markup {
> \fontsize #-4
> \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5)
> \column \override #'(font-name . "Arial Bold") {
>   E B E E B E
> }
> }
>
> % Open A add4
> guitar-open-a-add-four = \stringTuning <e, a, d e a cis'>
> tuningOpenAaddFour = \markup {
> \fontsize #-4
> \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5)
> \column \override #'(font-name . "Arial Bold") {
>   \concat { C \override #'(font-name . "Emmentaler-16") \small ♯ } A E D A
> E
> }
>
>
>
> And a simple example:
>
> \new TabStaff \with {
> stringTunings = \guitar-open-g-tuning
> instrumentName = \markup { " " \tuningOpenG }
> }
> {
> d, g, d g b d'
> }