Re: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails

[Federico Bruni]

2013/4/22 David Kastrup <address@hidden>

Kale Good <address@hidden> writes:

> \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails on open strings.
>
> On Ubuntu 12.04, Lilypond 2.16.2. Running lilypond through
> lilypondtool.
>
> \new TabStaff \relative c {
> \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #5
> c16 d e f g4
> }

<URL:http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-fretted-strings#index-restrainOpenStrings>

"Even when minimumFret is set, open strings are used whenever
possible. This behaviour can be changed by setting restrainOpenStrings
to #t."

This question may confirm my idea that people don't expect to have open strings by default when setting minimumFret:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2013-01/msg00033.html