Re: [tablatures] separating music and tablature information

[Marc Hohl <marc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick Schmidt schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> in order to achieve different guitar tablature editions of the same 
> piece of music I experimented with ghost voices consisting of spacer 
> rests in combination with tablature information. Unfortunately it 
> doesn't seem to be possible to use spacer rests in chord constructs 
> such as <s s s>. In many cases I can use 's' instead and define a 
> minimum Fret but some chords in higher playing positions contain open 
> strings such as <a\5 c'\3 b\2 e'\1>. In this case it would be helpful 
> to be able to use <s\5 s\3 s\2 s\1> in a ghost voice and <a c' b e'> 
> in the main voice to keep the music and tablature informations in 
> separate voices.  As a workaround I could use <a\5 c'\3 b\2 e'\1>  in 
> the ghost voice and <a c' b e'> in combination with \once \override 
> TabNoteHead #'stencil = ##f in the main voice because otherwise the 
> string number indications in the ghost voice interfere with the 
> automatic string calculation in the main voice. But then the ghost 
> voice also contains some note names and durations which I wanted to 
> avoid. Is there a more elegant solution to this problem?
To be honest: I don't fully understand your request, sorry.
Why do you need something like  <s\5 s\3 s\2 s\1>?
Can you post a minimal example for clarification?

Thanks,

Marc