Re: Avoid a string in a TabStaff

[David Kastrup]

Davide Liessi <address@hidden> writes:

> Searching the manual I found the defaultStrings property of
> Tab_note_heads_engraver and the regression test
> tablature-default-strings.ly, but this does not help:
>
> %%% BEGIN
> \version "2.18.0"
>
> \new TabStaff \with {
>   defaultStrings = #'(3 1)
> } {
>   a b gis'
> }
> %%% END
>
> Is there a way to avoid the use of one string but still use the lowest
> position possible for notes on other strings?

Well, if you don't need the string _at_ _all_, picking a tuning where it
is tuned insanely high or to a quartertone pitch should do the trick.

-- 
David Kastrup