Tab with partial capo

Dorico
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I sometimes use a partial capo that covers 3-4-5 so the tuning is EBEABE (which is incidentally my wife’s license tag). I’m planning on revising some pieces in Dorico. When I did them in Finale I did it as below so the E is at the second fret, but open. This made sense to me though I don’t know if it would to anyone else. It was a huge pain to alter all those open notes. Just wondering if anyone has an opinion.

::: Bill

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In Dorico the effect of a partial capo is to cause unfretted notes on the capo’d strings to be written as “0” (instead of the number of the capo’d fret). See the attached. You could instead change the whole guitar to a EBEABE tuning but that would mean that fretted notes on the capo’d strings would be “wrong”.

partial capo example.dorico (1.4 MB)

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Thanks. That makes more sense than my approach.