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Re: TabNoteHead position


From: Erik Sandberg
Subject: Re: TabNoteHead position
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:47:00 +0200
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On Friday 03 June 2005 14.40, VSD wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think that the position of the TabNoteHeads in tablatures is incorrect.
> By default, lily places the
> fret numbers are placed *above* the strings, but that's confusing, and
> usually they are placed *over*
> the strings.
>
> The examples in the manual itself at "Tablatures basic" and "Non-guitar
> tablatures" give a somehow bad
> impression about how Lilypond handles tablature, imho (for instance to a
> newcomer which reviews
> lilypond for the first time).
>
> There's a very easy workaround by overriding the TabNoteHead offset in the
> TabStaff engraver
> initialization (in engraver-init) by adding:
>
> \override TabNoteHead #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -0.45)
>
> but, shouldn't this be set by default?

This is a known bug (tab-number-center.ly), I marked it popular. Thanks for 
the hint!

Han-Wen, this might be considered critical, if it's not intentional. Since I 
don't know about tabs, I can't judge.

-- 
Erik Sandberg
Maintainer of the Lilypond bug CVS archive,
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/lily-bugs/bugs/
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/bugs/out/index.html




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