Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> writes: > It seems to me like a ChoirStaff is a special kind of StaffGroup that > is not intended to have tablature associated with it. > > Wouldn’t the better approach be to have the user create a new custom > StaffGroup?
Singers with lute are not untypical for a Renaissance ensemble. At any rate, LilyPond's job description does not really include fighting imprudent typesetting choices with baffling behavior. "Are you sure you want ..." is a usage rather than a programming question. > One of the strengths of LilyPond is keeping appropriate semantics in > the input files. But not by ejecting its stomach in the users' faces when it doesn't like what they want. > I don’t think ChoirStaff is the appropriate semantics for a StaffGroup > containing a traditional music staff and a tablature staff. But the user is not asking you to do the typesetting, but LilyPond. -- David Kastrup