Is there a term for tablature with numerals placed between the lines?
In most of tablature notation for fretted instruments, each line represents a string and the numerals, representing the frets where to stop the string, are printed on the respective lines.
However, for 4-stringed instruments there exists literature [1, see picture] with the tablature consisting of five lines and the numerals printed in between those lines.
In this case a string is represented by a gap between two lines.
Is there nomenclature distinguishing between those two types of tablature?
1 Jehtro Burns and Ken Edison, Mel Bay's Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin Book, Mel Bay Publications, Inc., ISBN 1-56222-663-0 (1993)
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Unlikely.
Your opening sentence is confirmed here: "In tablature, the horizontal lines represent the strings of the instrument: six strings for guitar and dobro, four for mandolin and ukulele, five for banjo." This notation guide uses a 6-, 5-, or 4-line staff, with a clef "TAB."
Your picture's omission of the unusual clef and usage of the common 5-line staff both suggest that this is a publisher's shortcut, not yet deserving the dignity of its own name.
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