Re: restrainOpenStrings and minimumFret

[Colin Hall]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:26:57PM +0000, Keith OHara wrote:
> Federico Bruni <fedelogy <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm a bit confused about the use of minimumFret and restrainOpenString.
> > Maybe adding a warning in the documentation could be a good idea.
> 
> It seems that restrainOpenString = #t causes LilyPond to check if you can 
> reach a finger to fret zero, within the  maximumFretStretch = #4  (mentioned 
> only in the Internals Reference) while stopping the high D on fret 7.
> 
> Could this check ever be useful ?
> 
> I suspect that the change to give us restrainOpenString carefully preserved
> an accidental (mis)-feature, so I re-opened its corresponding issue
> <http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2348>

Federico, I reproduced your output, which looks fine to me, but I am
not a fret player.

So, perhaps you could explain exactly what is wrong and I can add your
comment to the tracker? There's a png of the output on the tracker.

New tracker here:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3029

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall