Re: 2.16 release candidate 3 imminent

[Carl Sorensen]

On 1/21/12 11:47 AM, "Marc Hohl" <address@hidden> wrote:

>
>>> I must admit that I am lost here and do not quite understand what's
>>> going on,
>>> but will there be any difference between
>>>
>>> <  c\3 e\2 g\1>  and<  c e g>\3\2\1
>>>
>>> once these changes are implemented?
>> The latter would not display anything anywhere.
>Great!

I'm not sure you actually will find it great (although I think it is more
consistent).

If we don't want to have string numbers show up in the music, but we need
them for the tabstaff, right now we can do

<c e g>\3\2\1

In the future, <c e g>\3\2\1 won't assign the string numbers to the
tabstaff.  (And in fact, I can't find this usage documented in the NR).
Instead, as would be done regularly in lilypond, we would do

\once \override StringNumber #'stencil = ##f
<c\3 e\2 g\1>

This is consistent with how things are handled in lilypond, so I think we
ought to move in this direction.

Thanks,

Carl