Re: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails

[Peter Crighton]

2013/4/22 Federico Bruni <address@hidden>:
> 2013/4/22 David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>>
>> Kale Good <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails on open strings.
>> >
>> > On Ubuntu 12.04, Lilypond 2.16.2. Running lilypond through
>> > lilypondtool.
>> >
>> > \new TabStaff \relative c {
>> > \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #5
>> > c16 d e f g4
>> > }
>>
>>
>> <URL:http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-fretted-strings#index-restrainOpenStrings>
>>
>> "Even when minimumFret is set, open strings are used whenever
>> possible. This behaviour can be changed by setting restrainOpenStrings
>> to #t."
>>
>
>
> This question may confirm my idea that people don't expect to have open
> strings by default when setting minimumFret:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2013-01/msg00033.html

I was also very surprised to see that option being the default. It
might be more useful in classical guitar music, I don’t know about
that. But in rock/pop/jazz music I almost never would use open strings
when playing in higher frets.

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