[Gnu-music-discuss] guitar tabs (well almost...)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> I know Lilypond don't support guitar tabs, and probably will not.
> But it should be easy to use lily to write the notes, and then
> you fill in the guitar tab by hand. This is better than nothing.
> 
> I guess this can be done with some translator/property tweaking,
> but I haven't learned the internals yet. 
> 
> What we need is something like this:
> <
>  \context Staff % normal staff
>  \context Staff % remvoe all but barline engravers, line-count=6 
> >
> 
> Han-Wen, I bet you can do this in less than two minutes ;-)

in theory yes, in practice, such a request always turns up weird bugs.
I fixed them in .86, and I'll include a input/test/tab-staff.ly to
demonstrate this

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