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. > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Polyphonic-Tablature-tf2486351.html#a6933996 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
