Re: Polyphonic Tablature

[Rick Hansen (aka RickH)]

Yes this has been a problem I've had too, it would be nice if one can use the
same notes/voices on both the staff and tabstaff, without duplicating the
work.



Nigel Tao-2 wrote:
> 
> Hiya.  Lilypond newbie here - so I'm probably mangling the terminology...
> 
> I am trying to re-use the same (polyphonic, separated by \\) notes for
> both a regular staff and a tablature staff, but the tablature and \\
> don't seem to be playing nice, so instead of typing out the notes just
> once in a macro and invoking it twice, I have to re-jig the two voices
> as a single-voiced chords in the tablature version, ending up with an
> inelegant duplication of effort.
> 
> Picture of what I want to achieve:
> http://nigel.tao.googlepages.com/polyphonic-tablature.png
> 
> What I'm doing:
> ----------------------------------
> {
> \new StaffGroup <<
> \new Staff {
>       \key d \major
>       \clef "G_8"
>       <<
>       {
>               fis'8 a d' fis'
>               e' fis ais <cis' e'>
>       } \\
>       {
>               d2 cis
>       }
>       >>
> }
> 
> \new TabStaff {
>       \override TabStaff.Stem #'transparent = ##t
>       \override TabStaff.Beam #'transparent = ##t
>       <fis' d>8 a d' fis'
>       <e' cis> fis ais <cis' e'>
> }
>>>
> }
> ----------------------------------
> 
> What doesn't work
> ----------------------------------
> notes = <<
>       {
>               fis'8 a d' fis'
>               e' fis ais <cis' e'>
>       } \\
>       {
>               d2 cis
>       }
>       >>
> 
> {
> \new StaffGroup <<
> \new Staff {
>       \key d \major
>       \clef "G_8"
>       \notes
> }
> 
> \new TabStaff {
>       \override TabStaff.Stem #'transparent = ##t
>       \override TabStaff.Beam #'transparent = ##t
>       \notes
> }
>>>
> }
> ----------------------------------
> 
> Trying the second way, I get an empty TAB staff and doubled notes on
> the regular staff.  If I take out the \overrides (even though I really
> want to hide the stems and beams), then I get four staves, of which
> the second one (TAB) is empty.
> 
> Cutting out the << \\ >> "works", in that I get the same notes exactly
> once on each clef, but that isn't the music I want to write.  :-)
> 
> I was just wondering if I'm doing something wrong or whether what I
> want to do is just not easy?  I am on version 2.6.3, if that matters,
> since that's what my distro gave me...
> 
> thanks,
> Nigel.
> 
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