Re: Issue with tablature in full score

[David Kastrup]

Matt Hood <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I’m putting together an arrangement for four guitars, with the parts
> in tab and the full score in standard notation. Each part is its own
> variable, and then separate instances of Staff and TabStaff are used
> to output in the different formats.
>
> I’ve gone back through and added fingering information to make the tab
> sensible, using these commands:
> \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #??
> \set TabStaff.restrainOpenStrings = ##??
>
> This makes a nice looking tab, but now the full score is littered with
> extra clefs and spacing issues on every instance that I’ve changed
> some property of TabStaff.
> Is there a way to disable all occurrences of a TabStaff in the full score?
> Worst case scenario I can use tags, but that’s awfully tedious. Or I
> could have two copies of the parts, but then I’ve got to change two
> files for every alteration, which isn’t a great practice.
>
> Any ideas?

Use \set Staff.minimumFret ... et al.  A TabStaff will also answer to
Staff (since it is aliased accordingly), and the settings will not cause
trouble in a Staff.

Alternatively, tag those commands and use \removeWithTag to strip them
from the Staff version.

-- 
David Kastrup