Re: Make a new staff occupy the same vertical space as a previous staff

2015-08-29 Thread Joel Ebel
Thanks for all the help. As per Simon's advice, I'm now doing this to get rid of the TAB clef on the first line of RhythmicStaff, and I like the removal of the DevNull. It's perhaps a toss-up whether the source is easier to read with around the TabStaff it vs putting a \stopStaff after it, but

Re: Make a new staff occupy the same vertical space as a previous staff

2015-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
Joel Ebel jbe...@mybox.org writes: On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:53 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Oh wow. This one is seriously annoying. If you take out all \stopStaff, it is apparent that the TabStaff is alive through the whole piece. This is also the case when replacing \new Line

Re: Make a new staff occupy the same vertical space as a previous staff

2015-08-27 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 27.08.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Joel Ebel: On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:53 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Oh wow. This one is seriously annoying. If you take out all \stopStaff, it is apparent that the TabStaff is alive through the whole piece. This is also the case when replacing \new

Re: Make a new staff occupy the same vertical space as a previous staff

2015-08-27 Thread Joel Ebel
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:53 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Oh wow. This one is seriously annoying. If you take out all \stopStaff, it is apparent that the TabStaff is alive through the whole piece. This is also the case when replacing \new Line with \new StaffGroup. This is

Re: Make a new staff occupy the same vertical space as a previous staff

2015-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
Joel Ebel jbe...@mybox.org writes: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Joel Ebel jbe...@mybox.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:53 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: The following appears to work here. Of course it begs the question whether we should provide a context definition like

Re: Make a new staff occupy the same vertical space as a previous staff

2015-08-26 Thread Joel Ebel
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Joel Ebel jbe...@mybox.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:53 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: The following appears to work here. Of course it begs the question whether we should provide a context definition like that, possibly with a better name, in

Re: Make a new staff occupy the same vertical space as a previous staff

2015-08-25 Thread Joel Ebel
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:53 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: The following appears to work here. Of course it begs the question whether we should provide a context definition like that, possibly with a better name, in LilyPond by default. Excellent! That does work, which is good because

Make a new staff occupy the same vertical space as a previous staff

2015-08-25 Thread Joel Ebel
I'm sure this is documented somewhere and I just can't seem to find it. How do I get a new staff to immediately follow a previous staff in the same vertical space. In this simple example, I'd like the TabStaff to end, and the RhythmicStaff to immediately follow in the same vertical space, rather

Re: Make a new staff occupy the same vertical space as a previous staff

2015-08-25 Thread Joel Ebel
The closest I've been able to get so far is to instantiate the TabStaff and the RhythmicStaff inside the ChordNames in parallel with the chords I want to make. I still don't get the TabStaff and the RhythmicStaff on the same line, but if I insert a \break (commented out below) in between them,

Re: Make a new staff occupy the same vertical space as a previous staff

2015-08-25 Thread David Kastrup
Joel Ebel jbe...@mybox.org writes: I'm sure this is documented somewhere and I just can't seem to find it. How do I get a new staff to immediately follow a previous staff in the same vertical space. In this simple example, I'd like the TabStaff to end, and the RhythmicStaff to immediately