Today, LilyPond doesn't know anything about the semantics of tab notation, it only supports the notation of it. In other words, there's no support for interpreting the tab into pitches that can be output into a MIDI file.
If you search the mailing list archives, you will find out that there have been some long discussions (partly infected) on the tab notation. One reason for the confusion is that tab notation differs a lot, both in notation and in interpretation, between different instruments and different music styles.
/Mats
Joshua McFadden wrote:
I've been searching the documentation and googling for an hour now... is there _any_ way to get TabStaff to output a midi track?
Here's a short example, and when I run lilypond on it (2.1.0 on Debian), the Staff and Lyrics wind up in the midi file, and the TabStaff doesn't:
\score { << << \addlyrics \context Staff = melody { \clef "G_8" \melody } \context Lyrics = words { \words } >> \context TabStaff = accp { \accp } >> \paper { } \midi { \tempo 4 . = 55 } }
The full source is here: http://mindsound.org/junk/tabstaff.ly
Thanks,
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