Laurie Griffiths wrote:
> 
> Tablature
> 1. Muse supports ABC to fretted instrument tab generation by giving string
> information after the duration, using a semicolon to delimit it.  e.g. E2;4
> Play E for 2 time units on string number 4.  On the whole it's only
> necessary to give this information for a few notes, the rest can be
> interpolated. Where there is no
> explicit string information, Muse just tries to do something sensible (it
> enumerates all possible fingerings for the whole piece and selects the one
> with the lowest difficulty score).
>
This is an interesting approach: you specify the note rather than
string (or "course", as lutanists tend to say) and fret.
 
>  I have no idea how abctab2ps represents this information and
> you didn't say, but I'd guess this is fundamental. 
>
abctab2ps uses a different approach: course and fret are specified.
If you are intereseted, here are the details:
http://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/userguide/node8.html

Christoph Dalitz
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