Re: lilypond-devel Digest, Vol 41, Issue 35

[Mark Van den Borre]

> From: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
> Subject: State of the docs, April 2006
> To: lily-devel <address@hidden>

> I'm getting burnt out from trying to do all the documentation.  In
> addition, in a fit of insanity I agreed to be the new Bug Meister.
Don't burn yourself by doing too much, my friend!

> INSTRUMENT-SPECIFIC NOTATION
> Lilypond knowledge required: moderate knowledge in a specific area
> Estimated time: variable
>
> As far as I know, the "instrument-specific notation" chapter is ok as
> it is.  However, if there are problems, I'm not going to fix them.  I
> don't play those instruments, I don't write music for those
> instruments, I don't know what music for those instruments should look
> like, and in the near future I won't have the time and energy to find
> out.
>
> If you use any of the notation listed in this chapter -- including
> lyrics, which I know is a big use of lilypond -- then please consider
> "adopting" the appropriate section of this chapter.  If anything needs
> to be clarified, or if new notation should be added, please write it
> yourself.  If you use figured bass, or play guitar, or whatever, then
> you know more about using lilypond for such things than I do.  I'm
> still quite happy to do the technical step of translating specific
> instructions from an email into the lilypond documentation, but I am a
> poor choice for writing these docs.
I'll do the classical guitar for the next year.  Not much, but hey,
every bit helps, right?

Once it gets supported, I might also fiddle a bit with lute tabulature docs.

In this regard, a feature request: basic lute tabulature support. A
very common kind of lute tabulature was written using letters instead
of numbers (0th fret =open string=a, 1st fret = b, 2nd fret = c,...).
Tuning is very often (in relative terms) similar to guitar: e a d fis
b e instead of e a d g b e on a modern instrument.

See amongst others:
* http://polyhymnion.org/swv/theaxe.html
* http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/tab-serv/tab-serv.cgi

Mark
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