From: Trevor Daniels <t.daniels@treda.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:59:34 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Docs: NR 2.3 Unfretted - add \open
X-Git-Tag: release/2.11.63-1~52
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Docs: NR 2.3 Unfretted - add \open
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diff --git a/Documentation/user/unfretted-strings.itely b/Documentation/user/unfretted-strings.itely
index 0fc7585abc..a200e70b65 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/unfretted-strings.itely
+++ b/Documentation/user/unfretted-strings.itely
@@ -81,20 +81,35 @@ 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 how an open D string is indicated:
+
+@lilypond[verbatim,quote,relative=1]
+d1 \open ^\markup { \teeny "IV" }
+@end lilypond
+
+@predefined
+@code{\downbow},
+@code{\upbow},
+@code{\open}.
 
 @seealso