Re: Braces with TabStaff

[David Kastrup]

Carl Sorensen <c_sorensen@byu.edu> writes:

> It seems to me like a ChoirStaff is a special kind of StaffGroup that
> is not intended to have tablature associated with it.
>
> Wouldn’t the better approach be to have the user create a new custom
> StaffGroup?

Singers with lute are not untypical for a Renaissance ensemble.  At any
rate, LilyPond's job description does not really include fighting
imprudent typesetting choices with baffling behavior.

"Are you sure you want ..." is a usage rather than a programming
question.

> One of the strengths of LilyPond is keeping appropriate semantics in
> the input files.

But not by ejecting its stomach in the users' faces when it doesn't like
what they want.

> I don’t think ChoirStaff is the appropriate semantics for a StaffGroup
> containing a traditional music staff and a tablature staff.

But the user is not asking you to do the typesetting, but LilyPond.

-- 
David Kastrup