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[lilypond.git] / Documentation / user / unfretted-strings.itely

diff --git a/Documentation/user/unfretted-strings.itely b/Documentation/user/unfretted-strings.itely
index 0a7fc1c249b814b78d98c9eb06b14b919fa3f4c1..cf563d0ee274c9906bc98266afab97334dca404d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/user/unfretted-strings.itely
+++ b/Documentation/user/unfretted-strings.itely
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@c -*- coding: utf-8; mode: texinfo; -*-
+@c -*- coding: utf-8; mode: texinfo; -*-
 @ignore
     Translation of GIT committish: FILL-IN-HEAD-COMMITTISH
 
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
 @node Unfretted string instruments
 @section Unfretted string instruments
 
+@lilypondfile[quote]
+{unfretted-headword.ly}
+
 @cindex orchestral strings
 @cindex strings, writing for
 
@@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ be required for some double-stopped or divisi passages.
 * References for unfretted strings::
 * Bowing indications::
 * Harmonics::
-* Snap (Bartók) pizzicato::
+* Snap (Bartok) pizzicato::
 @end menu
 
 @node References for unfretted strings
@@ -78,20 +81,38 @@ Snippets:
 
 @funindex \upbow
 @funindex \downbow
+@funindex \open
 
 @cindex bowing indications
 @cindex up bow indication
 @cindex down bow indication
+@cindex open string indication
+@cindex string, indicating open
 
 Bowing indications are created as articulations, which are
-described in @ref{Articulations and ornamentations}.  The
-bowing commands, @code{\upbow} and @code{\downbow}, are used with
-slurs as follows:
+described in @ref{Articulations and ornamentations}.
+
+The bowing commands, @code{\upbow} and @code{\downbow}, are used
+with slurs as follows:
 
 @lilypond[verbatim,quote,relative=2]
 c4(\downbow d) e(\upbow f)
 @end lilypond
 
+@noindent
+and the following example shows three ways in which an open A
+string on a violin might be indicated:
+
+@lilypond[verbatim,quote,relative=2]
+a4 \open 
+a^\markup { \teeny "II" } 
+a2^\markup { \small "sul A" }
+@end lilypond
+
+@predefined
+@code{\downbow},
+@code{\upbow},
+@code{\open}.
 
 @seealso
 
@@ -159,7 +180,7 @@ Notation Reference:
 @ref{Special note heads},
 @ref{References for unfretted strings}.
 
-@node Snap (Bartók) pizzicato
+@node Snap (Bartok) pizzicato
 @unnumberedsubsubsec Snap (Bartók) pizzicato
 
 @cindex pizzicato, Bartók