Re: Issue with tablature in full score

[Matt Hood]

Hi David, thanks for your advice, it worked perfectly. A 1 minute text 
replacement job too!

Thanks again,
Matt. 

> On 16 Nov 2017, at 1:57 am, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Matt Hood <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I’m putting together an arrangement for four guitars, with the parts
>> in tab and the full score in standard notation. Each part is its own
>> variable, and then separate instances of Staff and TabStaff are used
>> to output in the different formats.
>> 
>> I’ve gone back through and added fingering information to make the tab
>> sensible, using these commands:
>> \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #??
>> \set TabStaff.restrainOpenStrings = ##??
>> 
>> This makes a nice looking tab, but now the full score is littered with
>> extra clefs and spacing issues on every instance that I’ve changed
>> some property of TabStaff.
>> Is there a way to disable all occurrences of a TabStaff in the full score?
>> Worst case scenario I can use tags, but that’s awfully tedious. Or I
>> could have two copies of the parts, but then I’ve got to change two
>> files for every alteration, which isn’t a great practice.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
> 
> Use \set Staff.minimumFret ... et al.  A TabStaff will also answer to
> Staff (since it is aliased accordingly), and the settings will not cause
> trouble in a Staff.
> 
> Alternatively, tag those commands and use \removeWithTag to strip them
> from the Staff version.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup