Re: Strange artefact after \^ cih'

[email protected] Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:17:00 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general
Message-ID <20260727181700.Horde.HxU_zW5tRuJoLD59iAwjzif@webmail.infopower.nl>
Quoting Thomas Morley <[email protected]>:

> Am So., 26. Juli 2026 um 22:38 Uhr schrieb <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Looking for how to make a bend of 1/4 note I found this on
>> music.stackexchange:
>>
>> https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/139097/1-4-tone-bends-in-lilypond
>>
>> But using this, the code below results in loss of the flags of the
>> following 1/8th notes as can be seen in the picture I took of the
>> result.
>>
>>
>> \version "2.24.1"
>> \new TabStaff \fixed c {
>>    \tabFullNotation
>>    < g'-1\1 >8[   < f'-4\2 >8]
>>    < d'-1\2 >8   < c'-3\3 >8 \^ cih'
>>    < d'-1\2 >8   < g'-1\1 >8
>>    < f'-4\2 >4
>> }
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> harry
>
> You stumbled across a limitation of the current implementation of
> BendSpanner.details.target-visibility.
> Per default the target is omitted, which does not play nicely with
> Beams starting there.
>
> Thus the work-around is to set BendSpanner.details.target-visibility
> true and TabNoteHead.transparent true, i.e.
>
> \new TabStaff \fixed c {
>    \tabFullNotation
>    < g'-1\1 >8[   < f'-4\2 >8]
>    < d'-1\2 >8
>    \once \override BendSpanner.details.target-visibility = ##t
>    < c'-3\3 >8 \^
>    \once \override TabNoteHead.transparent = ##t
>    cih'
>    < d'-1\2 >8   < g'-1\1 >8
>    < f'-4\2 >4
> }
>
> Alas, I have the impression there's something wrong with the durations ...
>
> Cheers,
>   Harm

That was my experience too, so I set the last note duration from 4 to  
8 while making the flag invisible, or rather transparent I believe.

cheers,
harry