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

[Federico Bruni <brunology@xxxxxxx>]

Marc Hohl wrote:
> 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? :-)

yes

[..]
> > 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.

Yes, of course.. I didn't think about that, you are right.
So nevermind.. I just wanted to be sure that you didn't forget this 
issue, but now I can see you didn't at all

> > 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.

thanks, but I'll keep using this simple code (that you suggested me 
some weeks ago) in my personal-tab-settings file :-)


\layout {
  \context {
    \Staff
    \override StringNumber #'transparent = ##t
  }
}