Re: Questions about guitar tablature support

[Terje Tjervaag]

Sorry to bump this one, but I am also very interested in more advanced 
tablature support in Lilypond and I'm wondering if there are any people 
working on this right now.  If not, would you accept submissions 
regarding tab or have you decided to leave the tab support where it is?

I haven't looked at any source for lilypond yet so I don't know if I'm 
able to contribute with anything, just thought I'd see what interest 
there are for better tablature support.  I'm hereby voicing mine! :-)

Just to explain my interest a bit more, I am currently writing a 
tablature editor for Mac OS X with lilypond as the back-end.  It's open 
source like lilypond, so if people are interested please let me know, I 
could use all the help I can get.  Anyhow, my primary instrument is 
banjo, which doesn't have much tablature structures that lilypond can't 
handle at the moment (besides slides and maybe a couple of other 
things) but I also want to support other instruments, such as guitar.  
I am however, trying to focus my efforts on instruments where tab is 
used as the primary and preferred method of writing music.  The banjo 
is one of these, as roll structures, picking patterns and the like 
cannot be described sufficiently with any other method than tablature.
Well, just wanted to let you know why I wrote.

Cheers!

Terje

On Sep 19, 2003, at 11:03 AM, Stef Epardaud wrote:

> Hello,
>
> First, congrats for all the new features in since 1.6, I am very
> impressed and my scores look a lot better. Since I'm a good tester for
> drums and guitar (I do all my music with lilypond) I have a few guitar
> tab questions:
<snip>
> Is there any plans to implement such things ?
> If yes, I will make all the research needed about exactly how it should
> look and all the special cases, and will provide all the info I can
> gather.
> Thanks.
> --
> Stéphane Epardaud
>
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