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In a TabStaff, the tuning of each string can be displayed to the left of the system using markup commands. <lilypond version="2.24" full> %% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=658 %% Currently there's a bug in LSR %% Thus the overrides for font-name below are commented %% See: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2025-07/msg00073.html %% --Harm, July 2025 %%------------------------------------------ \layout { tagline = ##f } \layout { \override Staff.InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = #RIGHT } EADGBE = \markup { \fontsize #-4 \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5) \column %\override #'(font-name . "Arial Bold") { E B G D A E } } %%------------------------------------------------ \new TabStaff { \set TabStaff.instrumentName = \markup { " " \EADGBE } \set TabStaff.shortInstrumentName = \markup \EADGBE e,8 c e gis b e' } %% To get accidentals from the musicfont use %% \concat { <string-name> \musicglyph <accidental-string> } %% use \raise and \fontsize to taste strangeTuning = \markup { \fontsize #-4 \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5) \column %\override #'(font-name . "Arial Bold") { D C \concat { F \raise #0.5 \fontsize #-2 \musicglyph #"accidentals.sharp" } D \concat { B \raise #0.2 \fontsize #-2 \musicglyph #"accidentals.flat" } F } } << \new Staff { \clef "G_8" f, bes, d fis c' d' } \new TabStaff { \set TabStaff.stringTunings = \stringTuning <f, bes, d fis c' d'> %D C F D Bb F> \set TabStaff.instrumentName = \markup { " " \strangeTuning } \set TabStaff.shortInstrumentName = \markup \strangeTuning f, bes, d fis c' d' } >> %%------------------------------------------------ </lilypond> [[Category:Fretted strings]] [[Category:Staff notation]] [[Category:Fretted strings]] [[Category:Snippet]]
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