Re: Polyphonic Tablature

[Rick Hansen (aka RickH)]

Thanks Mats, but this example is still producing 2 separate tab staffs, not a
single polyphonic one.

Rick



Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote:
> 
> See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-10/msg00285.html
> 
>   /Mats
> 
> Quoting "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <address@hidden>:
> 
>>
>> Yes this has been a problem I've had too, it would be nice if one can use
>> the
>> same notes/voices on both the staff and tabstaff, without duplicating the
>> work.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nigel Tao-2 wrote:
>>>
>>> Hiya.  Lilypond newbie here - so I'm probably mangling the
>>> terminology...
>>>
>>> I am trying to re-use the same (polyphonic, separated by \\) notes for
>>> both a regular staff and a tablature staff, but the tablature and \\
>>> don't seem to be playing nice, so instead of typing out the notes just
>>> once in a macro and invoking it twice, I have to re-jig the two voices
>>> as a single-voiced chords in the tablature version, ending up with an
>>> inelegant duplication of effort.
>>>
>>> Picture of what I want to achieve:
>>> http://nigel.tao.googlepages.com/polyphonic-tablature.png
>>>
>>> What I'm doing:
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> {
>>> \new StaffGroup <<
>>> \new Staff {
>>>     \key d \major
>>>     \clef "G_8"
>>>     <<
>>>     {
>>>             fis'8 a d' fis'
>>>             e' fis ais <cis' e'>
>>>     } \\
>>>     {
>>>             d2 cis
>>>     }
>>>     >>
>>> }
>>>
>>> \new TabStaff {
>>>     \override TabStaff.Stem #'transparent = ##t
>>>     \override TabStaff.Beam #'transparent = ##t
>>>     <fis' d>8 a d' fis'
>>>     <e' cis> fis ais <cis' e'>
>>> }
>>>>>
>>> }
>>> ----------------------------------
>>>
>>> What doesn't work
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> notes = <<
>>>     {
>>>             fis'8 a d' fis'
>>>             e' fis ais <cis' e'>
>>>     } \\
>>>     {
>>>             d2 cis
>>>     }
>>>     >>
>>>
>>> {
>>> \new StaffGroup <<
>>> \new Staff {
>>>     \key d \major
>>>     \clef "G_8"
>>>     \notes
>>> }
>>>
>>> \new TabStaff {
>>>     \override TabStaff.Stem #'transparent = ##t
>>>     \override TabStaff.Beam #'transparent = ##t
>>>     \notes
>>> }
>>>>>
>>> }
>>> ----------------------------------
>>>
>>> Trying the second way, I get an empty TAB staff and doubled notes on
>>> the regular staff.  If I take out the \overrides (even though I really
>>> want to hide the stems and beams), then I get four staves, of which
>>> the second one (TAB) is empty.
>>>
>>> Cutting out the << \\ >> "works", in that I get the same notes exactly
>>> once on each clef, but that isn't the music I want to write.  :-)
>>>
>>> I was just wondering if I'm doing something wrong or whether what I
>>> want to do is just not easy?  I am on version 2.6.3, if that matters,
>>> since that's what my distro gave me...
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Nigel.
>>>
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