Re: [tablatures] tremolos in tablature

[Carl Sorensen]

On 8/23/10 1:26 PM, "Marc Hohl" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Patrick Schmidt schrieb:
>> Hi all,
 
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> yes, of course. I didn't use tremolos very often while playing around with
> the new tablature appearance which yielded to scm/tablature.scm, so
> I overlooked this.
>> Workaround(s):
>> 1) Use
>> 
>> \override TabVoice.StemTremolo #'transparent = ##t
> That's great, I'll provide a patch within the next days.
> 
> The #'beam-thickness of the tremolo beams is defined in
> scm/define-grobs.scm as .48 * staff space.
> In ly/engraver-init.ly we have the staff space spread to 1.5 * staff
> space, so it would be optimal to
> define the #'beam-thickness in TabStaff being 0.48/1.5=0.32 to ensure
> the tremolo beams are equal
> in size for normal and tab staves.
> 
It seems that we should use 0.48 times the *actual* staff space, rather than
the default staff space.  That way, if someone overrides the space, the
tremolo bars will be the right size.

Thanks,

Carl