"p...@equa.co.uk" <p...@equa.co.uk> writes: > Hi, > I am getting close to what I want, and yet the last bit eludes me. I > am regularly transcribing bass parts from performances played on 5 or > 6-string basses. Invariably my intended audience is a 4-string player > and so needs either a modified part or a pencil. > My idea is to accommodate all basses on a 4-string TabStaff, by using > ledger lines to represent the low-B or high-C string notes, while > allowing 4-string players to see the difference. It seems this idea is > not original. Lilypond-user Laura Conrad was asking the same thing for > lute in 2003. > It does appear that in 'Internals' there is a mention of > ledger-line-spanner in TabStaff but I'm not good at internals. For > instance, I am confused that changing the line positions on the tab > staff requires Staff.StaffSymbol and not TabStaff,
It doesn't. > so I guess one must be a sub-thing of the other. TabStaff has an alias of Staff, so when inside of an _existing_ TabStaff, settings for Staff go to the TabStaff instead. However, for settings you want to take effect for the entire duration of the Staff/TabStaff lifespan (including its creation, so we are talking about things like line-count), you really want to change them within the TabStaff's context modification block (the thing starting with \with ) so that they are in effect before the first StaffSymbol is being drawn. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
