Re: [Denemo-devel] tablature status (August 2012)

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 13:09 +0200, Federico Bruni wrote:
> Hi Denemo developers,
> 
> I wonder what's the status of tablature support in Denemo.
> Every now and then I try Denemo to check it but...as I've never used it, 
> I'm not sure if I'm missing something.
> 
> I'm using Denemo 0.9.2 on Debian testing.
> I can see that I can input the music in a Staff and choose TabStaff as 
> output. The PDF will contain only the TabStaff.
> I don't know if this is a new feature or just the fact that I'm using 
> the lilypond mode.
It's been in there for a while - 0.9.4 is pretty out of date - we have
0.9.6 ready. It tells LilyPond do print the staff as tab. If you want
both the straightforward thing to do is to duplicate the staff I guess.
That would be a bit crude though - if you edited one the other would
need re-creating. 
With the upcoming release you could have a layout that printed the same
music on two staffs one as tab the other as normal staff notation. (This
is actually possible in 0.9.4 but you have to know LilyPond and create a
custom scoreblock to do it in the View->LilyPond window - the score
layout feature of 0.9.6 avoids you having to know the LilyPond to do
this).

> 
> Obviously I'm looking for the normal workflow, such as in Tuxguitar and 
> in lilypond: you write the music in the Staff and you see the notes 
> (well, the numbers) appearing automatically also in TabStaff.
If you are thinking about what you see as you enter the music (rather
than what is printed) then no, Denemo has no routines to display tab.
You would enter notes and Denemo would print the same notes on two
staffs one tab and one normal. Or you could have a layout where they
were printed out one after the other as separate pieces of music, if
that is what you wanted.
HTH
Richard

> Is it possible in Denemo?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> PS Link to the old manual is broken:
> http://denemo.org/Manual

hmm, where is the link? With the upcoming release you get tooltips
almost everywhere... and the possibility of translating Denemo.