Re: Globally removing string number engraver

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <address@hidden>:
> Thanks Mats,
>
> Adding this to the \layout block removes the string numbers:
>
>         \context { \Voice
>            \remove New_fingering_engraver
>         }
>
> "String_number_engraver" is apparently part of TabStaff.
>
> Apparently it was easy for someone to keep string numbers, fretting hand,
> and stroke hand numbers all in the same engraver called
> "New_fingering_engraver".  But globally removing string numbers also
> clobbers the finger numbers.  That's ok for my case but maybe in the future
> 3 different tranparent properties could be added to the
> New_fingering_engraver to let you turn on/off fret hand, stroke hand, and
> string numbers independently.

Read in "Common Tweaks" on how to make things invisible. In this specific
case, you could use
\override StringNumber #'transparent = ##t

An alternative, if you don't want it to take any space at all, is to use
\override StringNumber #'stencil = ##f
(this isn't yet in the manual).

  /Mats