Re: Suppressing engraving of string numbers on all voices simultaneously

[Valentin Petzel]

Hello Dave,

Doing \override Voice.something will only affect the current Voice context. 
Simply use \override Staff.something to have it affect the whole Staff (more 
or less).

But you shouldn’t use set the transparent property for this (this make the 
numbers not appear, but they will still affect spacing!). Rather override the 
stencil to ##f, so in old notation do
\override Staff.StringNumber #stencil = ##f
And in new notation
\override Staff.StringNumber.stencil = ##f

You can also put this into a \with block for the staff:
\new Staff \with { \override StringNumber.stencil = ##f } someMusic

Cheers,
Valentin

Am Freitag, 15. Oktober 2021, 01:10:55 CEST schrieb Dave Trombley:
> I am producing a "learning" guitar score with both standard musical
> notation and tablature on adjacent staves.  I wish to hide the output of
> the string numbers on the standard notation staff, and have this working
> for single-voice passage by using the code
> 
>      \override Voice.StringNumber #'transparent = ##t
> 
> in the Staff context for each standard staff.
> 
> However, this only works for the first voice.   My guess is that the way
> \override works is by changing the default value of the named property the
> next time it is instantiated, but the documentation is not clear on this
> point and so I am not certain.
> 
> When I use another voice, as in the passage
> 
>       << {s8 e~ e2} \\ {b4\4 a2\4}>>
> 
> the second voice displays the string numbers, which I do not want.
> 
> I could override this property again every time I instantiate a new voice,
> but that is extremely cumbersome.   Is there some way to set
> StringNumber.transparent true per default?
> 
> I tried using the \context command to do this as per the documentation, but
> could not get this to work successfully, nor am I sure that it is the right
> approach.
> 
> How can I completely disable the output of string numbers for all voices?
> It would be super if there was a way to temporarily turns this back on with
> \override, but even just disabling it would be an improvement...
> 
> -Dave

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