[LUTE] Re: LuteScribe - a new community-based free software tool for reading and editing tabulature
Great initiative! whenever you are ready to open source it, let me know to see if I can help with some code ;) Regards. 2017-10-05 14:30 GMT+02:00 Luke Emmet <[1]luke.em...@orlando-lutes.com>: Hi Göran Thanks for your interest - I've emailed you the details. LuteScribe uses the same commands as TAB, but it does provide some visual hinting. For example "x" means "the previous flag", and so in the LuteScribe GUI, these "x" flags are visually de-emphasised, so you can focus on the substantive flags. This makes the tabulature much more similar to the final printed form. For example, see the following screenshot to see this in action: [2]https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByhfXkzbvI8Vbl9JY3BZUnZVOEk As you can see it also shows the bar lines and uses an appropriate historical font (based with permission on those by Steve Horn in his Sibelius package). Also it goes beyond just working with Wayne Cripps TAB, as you can use it to view Fronimo files (although at present, not every element in Fronimo is currently imported for compatibility reasons). Best Wishes - Luke On 05-Oct-2017 12:30, G. C. wrote: So, it's basically a GUI for Wayne's tab. Cool. Hope there is a choice to set the flags to only reappear when they change value. I'd like to try the beta please. BR G -- __ Orlando Lutes [3]http://www.orlando-lutes.com To get on or off this list see list information at [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Cuerdas Pulsadas [5]www.cuerdaspulsadas.com || [6]h...@cuerdaspulsadas.com [7]BLOG || [8]AGENDA || [9]TIMELINE [10]blog [11]facebook [12]twitter [13]instagram -- References 1. mailto:luke.em...@orlando-lutes.com 2. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByhfXkzbvI8Vbl9JY3BZUnZVOEk 3. http://www.orlando-lutes.com/ 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 5. http://www.cuerdaspulsadas.com/ 6. mailto:h...@cuerdaspulsadas.com 7. http://www.cuerdaspulsadas.es/blog 8. http://cuerdaspulsadas.es/blog/agenda/ 9. http://www.cuerdaspulsadas.com/timeline 10. http://.cuerdaspulsadas.com/blog 11. http://www.facebook.com/cuerdaspulsadas 12. http://www.twitter.com/cuerdaspulsadas 13. http://www.instagram.com/cuerdaspulsadas
[LUTE] Re: LuteScribe - a new community-based free software tool for reading and editing tabulature
Hi Göran Thanks for your interest - I've emailed you the details. LuteScribe uses the same commands as TAB, but it does provide some visual hinting. For example "x" means "the previous flag", and so in the LuteScribe GUI, these "x" flags are visually de-emphasised, so you can focus on the substantive flags. This makes the tabulature much more similar to the final printed form. For example, see the following screenshot to see this in action: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByhfXkzbvI8Vbl9JY3BZUnZVOEk As you can see it also shows the bar lines and uses an appropriate historical font (based with permission on those by Steve Horn in his Sibelius package). Also it goes beyond just working with Wayne Cripps TAB, as you can use it to view Fronimo files (although at present, not every element in Fronimo is currently imported for compatibility reasons). Best Wishes - Luke On 05-Oct-2017 12:30, G. C. wrote: So, it's basically a GUI for Wayne's tab. Cool. Hope there is a choice to set the flags to only reappear when they change value. I'd like to try the beta please. BR G -- __ Orlando Lutes http://www.orlando-lutes.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: LuteScribe - a new community-based free software tool for reading and editing tabulature
So, it's basically a GUI for Wayne's tab. Cool. Hope there is a choice to set the flags to only reappear when they change value. I'd like to try the beta please. BR G On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Luke Emmet <[1]luke.em...@orlando-lutes.com> wrote: Dear lute list members I am announcing the beta release of a new community based free software tool for reading and editing lute tabulature. If you are interested to try it, please see further details below. To get a better idea, you can see some LuteScribe screenshots here: [2]https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByhfXkzbvI8VNEFEZFZl b2xZN3c Best Wishes - Luke Emmet LuteScribe â a new community-based free software for reading and editing tabulature Lute tabulature files are a fundamental way for the lute community to exchange music in our modern age. Existing commercial tools exist, but alongside these there should be widely available community tools to ensure tabulature can be created, read and shared by the widest possible range of players, scholars and researchers. LuteScribe is a new piece of software designed to allow the graphical creation and reading of lute tabulature by Luke Emmet. It runs on Windows (or on Mac/Linux via a virtual machine), and provides a visual user interface to edit lute tabulature. With it you can create new files or open existing lute tabulature in two of the most common formats for lute tabulature, namely the TAB plain text format or Fronimo FT3 files. A wide range of existing tabulature files exist in online repositories and LuteScribe offers another way to enjoy and build on this music. Under the surface, LuteScribe works together with the long established TAB software by Wayne Cripps which provides a wide range of typesetting commands to create the tabulature. As a result, LuteScribe can produce beautiful typeset output that can be saved as PostScript, PDF or printed off for players. A major advantage over the native TAB format is that LuteScribe shows the content in a way that is familiar to lute players and can be easily edited. LuteScribe is a community project and will be released as open source software meaning that anyone can contribute changes, fixes or enhancements. Currently LuteScribe is in BETA, and feedback is being collected in advance of the upcoming official release. Anyone wishing to test or try out LuteScribe should send an email to: [3]luke.em...@orlando-lutes.com for further details of how to download the current beta version. -- __ Orlando Lutes [4]http://www.orlando-lutes.com To get on or off this list see list information at [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:luke.em...@orlando-lutes.com 2. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByhfXkzbvI8VNEFEZFZlb2xZN3c 3. mailto:luke.em...@orlando-lutes.com 4. http://www.orlando-lutes.com/ 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
