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Vertical position of lute tablature fret glyphs #207

Open rettinghaus opened 2 years ago

rettinghaus commented 2 years ago

I'm missing some documentation/implementation notes on tablature fret glyphs for the lute ranges. I would expect to position them like normal noteheads on a line, but as they all sit on the font baseline, they appear above the fret line. This is somewhat connected to #205.

dspreadbury commented 2 years ago

That's as expected, as lute tablature is normally written in the spaces between the lines, rather than on the lines.

rettinghaus commented 2 years ago

This may be correct for French tabulator, but is not in general for German, Italian and Spanish.

Although I've seen German Tablature with letters between lines, it is more common to have them on line as it seems (some random examples):

German Tablature:

Sonatas - Becker III.11.6a

Bach BWV 1000

Beyer, Johann Christian: Herrn Professor Gellerts Oden, Lieder und Fabeln

Sonatas - Becker III.11.46c

255 Dances, lute - BSB Mus.ms. 21646

image Fantaisies et Preludes composées par M.r Weiss. à Rome

It is definitely not true for number based tablatures from Spain and Italy:

Italian:

image Intabulatura de Lauto. Libro primo, 1507

image Intavolatura di liuto attiorbato

Spanish Tablature:

pdf raw Reglas y advertencias generales para tañer la guitarra