Re: [tablatures] string number in TabStaff: show or hide?

[Marc Hohl <marc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Federico Bruni schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I've done some small tests with 2.13.4 and it seems to work great.
>
> I have question for Marc and for all the other tablature users.
> I can see the default behaviour is still printing the string numbers 
> in the TabStaff.
You mean the string nubers in the normal staff, right? :-)
> I think it's redundant (of course, because there is the tab which says 
> which string I'm supposed to pick).
> Also it's noisy and it takes the space that should be available for 
> left-hand/right-hand indications.
>
> Marc, you seemed to agree with me.. (see message below)
> What the other people think about it?
Yes, and I still do, but - see below.
> Should this (hide string number) be the default settings?
The problem is that the string numbers appear in a *normal* staff
which should somehow (automagically) know that there will be
another *TabStaff* dealing with exactly the same input if you want
it to remove the string numbers.
As far as I know, this isn't possible in lilypond.
And globally assuming that every guitarist will use normal and tablature 
notation
in every case is too far from reality, I think.
> If we agree on this change, it could be added in the next soon-coming 
> version.
> Otherwise, I'll keep using my override ;-)
As an alternative, it is possible to write a music function which takes 
your guitar music
as input and creates both normal and tablature staves - within this 
function, you can
make the string numbers disappear as default.

CombinedTabStaff = #(define-music-function (aprser location music) 
(ly:music?)
 #{
   <<
     \new Staff \with { \override Staff.StringNumber #'transparent = 
##t } { $music }
     \new TabStaff { $music }
   >>
 #}

(This is untested and perhaps buggy, but in gerneral, it won't be too 
difficult ...
With such a function you can use

\CombinedTabStaff { ...your music here ... }
to get a normal staff without string numbers and a tab staff as well.

Marc
> Marc Hohl wrote:
> > Federico Bruni schrieb:
> >> [...]
> >> I want just to express (briefly) my point of view, as I was not
> >> present when all of you discussed these issues.
> >>
> >> [...]
> >> Here's the stuff I want to change (I post it in case someone may be
> >> interested..):
> >> * remove string number from Staff (there is the tab, so this is very
> >> redundant)
> > Ok, agreed.
> >> * add Arpeggio to TabStaff
> > David, do you know more? What's the "official" way of writing 
> arpeggios?
> >> * remove parentheses around numbers from ties after a line break and
> >> from repeatTie (this requires also some changes in tablature.ly)
> > Perhaps there will be an option so that you can switch between
> > parenthesized fret
> > numbers and no numbers at all - I'll think about it.