Re: Crosses in tablature

[Simon Bailey]

hi marius,

On Dec 12, 2008, at 2:13 AM, Marius Andersen wrote:
> These commands, when used in the Staff context, give me nice cross  
> noteheads -- i.e., stopped/dampened notes as far as guitar is  
> concerned. However, they have NO effect in the TabStaff context:
>
>    \new TabStaff {
>      % This doesn't work
>
>      \override NoteHead  #'style = #'cross
>      c c c c
>
>      \override NoteHead  #'style = #'default
>
>      \tweak #'style #'cross c
>    }
>
> In other words, I cannot get an "X" on one of the tablature lines,  
> and so, cannot write dampened notes for guitar.


try this:

<<<<
#(define (x-tab-format str context event)
    (let*
      ((tuning (ly:context-property context 'stringTunings))
        (pitch (ly:event-property event 'pitch)))
      (make-whiteout-markup
        (make-vcenter-markup
          (markup #:musicglyph "noteheads.s2cross")))))


crosshead = \set tablatureFormat = #x-tab-format
uncrosshead = \unset tablatureFormat

\new TabStaff {
    \crosshead
    c c c c
    \uncrosshead
    c c
    \crosshead
    c
    \uncrosshead
    c
}>>>>

(callously nicked from the letter tablature formatting on http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Fretted-strings#Fretted-strings 
 ).

regards,
sb
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