Re: slides-in-tablature.ly snippets: string numbers of hided notes are visible

[Marc Hohl]

Am 01.09.2012 22:22, schrieb David Kastrup:
> pls <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > There must have been a change in default with regards to the
> > visibility of string numbers between 2.15.20 and the current
> > version. In 2.15.20 it was still possible to add string numbers to
> > notes (e.g. c'4\4) without them showing up in the score.
> But they showed up when writing <c'4\4>, so this was more a convenient
> bug than anything else.
>
> > This was very handy in order to automatically specify the appropriate
> > fret on the right string in tablature.  One could decide whether to
> > output individual string numbers via <c'\4>4 or not to engrave them
> > via c'4\4.
> And what would you do when _wanting_ a chord with more than a single
> note but no string numbers?
IIRC, one could have been written
< c' e' g' >\3\2\1
The fret numbers were placed accordingly in the tab staff, but no
string numbers showed up in normal staves ...

This does not necessarily mean that this is desired behavior ;-)
> > Now it seems that this behavior can only be achieved by constantly
> > overriding the string number stencil...
> Not that bad:
>
> n=#(define-event-function (parser location e) (ly:event?)
>                            #{ \tweak #'stencil ##f $e #})
>
> { c'\4 c'\n\4 }
Hey, that's clever!

Regards,

Marc