Re: Time signature in TabStaff

[Peter Crighton]

Thank you, that’s great!
It’s wonderful that LilyPond is so good already, but keeps getting
even better constantly. Every time I run into a problem it is already
going to be fixed in one of the next versions, I like that!

--
Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz/Wiesbaden, Germany
http://www.petercrighton.de


2012/9/7 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Peter Crighton <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> when having included \tabFullNotation in a TabStaff, the time
>> signature is not centered vertically with an even number of lines in
>> the staff. This is because a time signature is anchored at a line, not
>> the space between lines. Is there any way to change this behaviour and
>> have the time signature centered?
>>
>>
>> \version "2.15.41"
>>
>> \new TabStaff {
>>   \tabFullNotation
>>   R1
>> }
>
> Cf <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2783>.  This
> will be fixed in 2.17.2, and I plan a backport into 2.16.1 as well.  If
> you take a look at the length and breadth of the discussion on this
> issue as well as the parent issues, you'll see that a lot of work is
> going into assuring the best experience possible when using LilyPond.
> In this particular case, it took several iterations to get this right,
> but I believe that the time signature has not been centered in
> four/six-string tablatures for a _long_ time by now (like, since 2002 or
> so).  You can for now use something like
>
> \override Staff.TimeSignature #'Y-offset = -2
>
> as a temporary fix, but don't forget to remove it when upgrading to
> 2.17.2 or 2.16.1.
>
> --
> David Kastrup
>
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