Re: Double Staff Tablature - No Stems is the Norm

2007-06-21 Thread Graham Percival
Please see http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding and/or add the example to http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ Cheers, - Graham Joey Coyle wrote: This is Great Mats, and should definitely be an example in the Guitar documentation. thanks, joey On Jun 21, 2007, at 4:19 AM, M

Re: Double Staff Tablature - No Stems is the Norm

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Coyle
This is Great Mats, and should definitely be an example in the Guitar documentation. thanks, joey On Jun 21, 2007, at 4:19 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: It seems that your settings for some reasons are done in the TabVoice context, so you explicitly have to say \override TabStaff.TimeSignature

Re: Double Staff Tablature - No Stems is the Norm

2007-06-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that your settings for some reasons are done in the TabVoice context, so you explicitly have to say \override TabStaff.TimeSignature ... However, I propose to make all these settings in a layout block, so that they automatically apply to all TAB staff in the .ly file (you may even want

Re: Double Staff Tablature - No Stems is the Norm

2007-06-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson escreveu: > You can easily remove the stems: > \new TabStaff { > \override Stem #'transparent = ##t > a,4\5 c'\2 a\3 e'\1 > e\4 c'\2 a\3 e'\1 > } > > I no nothing about the notation practice for tab staff, but if you are > certain that this is common enough to deser

Re: Double Staff Tablature - No Stems is the Norm

2007-06-20 Thread Joey Coyle
Thanks Mats, I have almost removed everything from the TAB staff to make it look like the professional guitar transcriptions in all my books. But I can't seem to remove the TimeSignature from the TAB staff... here is what I have. Why is \override TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t not

Re: Double Staff Tablature - No Stems is the Norm

2007-06-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since you probably want to keep the stems in the ordinary note staff, you could do it in \context TabStaff << \override ... \partition >> An alternative is to specify that you want this setting in all TabStaff contexts in your .ly file, by inserting \layout{ \context{ \TabStaff \o

Re: Double Staff Tablature - No Stems is the Norm

2007-06-19 Thread Joey Coyle
Thanks Mats, In this example, where would you place the \override Stem #'transparent = ##t, as I can't get it to work. But I can get your example to create a single staff... partition = { \key e \major <> \5\4 } \context StaffGroup << \context Staff << \clef "G_8"

Re: Double Staff Tablature - No Stems is the Norm

2007-06-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You can easily remove the stems: \new TabStaff { \override Stem #'transparent = ##t a,4\5 c'\2 a\3 e'\1 e\4 c'\2 a\3 e'\1 } I no nothing about the notation practice for tab staff, but if you are certain that this is common enough to deserve a place in the documentation, please