Re: Negative frets in fret diagrams

[Carl Sorensen]

On 4/10/10 3:15 PM, "-Eluze" <address@hidden> wrote:

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> Valentin Villenave wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> When strings are given for notes in a fret diagram, and the notes are too
>>> low, the fret diagram will try to put dots on negative frets, instead of
>>> giving an error and producing nothing.
>> 
>> Added as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1035
>> 
> 
> the same happens in a TabVoice:
> 
> \version "2.13.17"
> \context TabVoice {
>   < fis \3 >
> }

What should the output of the notehead be in this case?

I assumed that the negative fret number is the best possible output, but we
should print a warning message.

Carl