Walt North <waltno...@gmail.com> writes: > I occasionally write out Tab notation parts for 6 or 8 string lap > steel guitar. I have created tuning entries for these and it works > well using Minimum fret and max fret difference values. Here is my > question. 90% of the time I only need the upper six strings and just > occasionally dip down to the 7th and 8th strings for a few > notes. Which means most of the time there is unneeded page space used > up. I could use different tab staffs intermittently but that gets > pretty cumbersome when it is only be an occasional note or two. And > I've never been able to get things realigned vertically when going > back and forth between 6 string and 8 string tabstaff. > > Is there any approach that would add just a lower tabstaff line for > the 7th or 8th string as needed - similar to the way ledger lines are > added to regular staff when the notes go down to middle C or lower? > > Maybe something with markup?
Have you tried adding the Ledger_line_engraver to your TabStaff ? Do you have any example code to work with? -- David Kastrup
