Add functionality to string numbers

[lilypond.git] / Documentation / notation / fretted-strings.itely

diff --git a/Documentation/notation/fretted-strings.itely b/Documentation/notation/fretted-strings.itely
index 76d8f5d37578943e75901c57308a992d709d0a8e..c1257539ec40d21dc779912b3e28adb226e29999 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/notation/fretted-strings.itely
+++ b/Documentation/notation/fretted-strings.itely
@@ -119,6 +119,21 @@ g-0\3
 <g-0\3>
 @end lilypond
 
+String numbers may also, as is customary with unfretted strings,
+be printed in Roman numerals and placed below the staff rather
+than above.
+
+@lilypond[verbatim,quote,relative=2]
+c2\2
+a\3
+\romanStringNumbers
+c\2
+\set stringNumberOrientations = #'(down)
+a\3
+\arabicStringNumbers
+g1\4
+@end lilypond
+
 @snippets
 
 @lilypondfile[verbatim,quote,texidoc,doctitle]
@@ -127,6 +142,11 @@ g-0\3
 @lilypondfile[verbatim,quote,texidoc,doctitle]
 {allowing-fingerings-to-be-printed-inside-the-staff.ly}
 
+@predefined
+@code{\arabicStringNumbers},
+@code{\romanStringNumbers}.
+@endpredefined
+
 @seealso
 Notation Reference:
 @ref{Fingering instructions}.