I see there's is some sort of tablature support in Mup, with bends and slides... http://www.arkkra.com/doc/uguide/tabstaff.html
Would be nice if we get it in Lilypond too. Thanks in advance, notesetter wrote: > > I'd like to second rosea's sentiment about tablature. I'm just learning > LilyPond and would like to help the programmers improve LilyPond's support > for fretted instrument tablature, including support for bends, slides, > ligado and the various other instrument specific notations. > > I've been a professional guitar transcriber and music engraver for about 8 > years and I currently work with 2 of the largest publishers on their > guitar/TAB publications on a freelance basis. As of right now, I am > prepared to help in a consulting capacity for improvements in these areas > (I have no background in programming). In the future, I may be able to > sponsor new features (especially in conjunction with other sponsors) that > will improve LilyPond's capacity to write fretted instrument tablature. > > If there's anyone working on improving these features currently, please > let me know if you have questions about shapes/exact placement/etc. The > Tab Legend posted by Rosea is a bit outdated. Although most of the symbols > in current usage are similar to those on the legend, I feel their > placement in the score needs to be updated. Caveat: I tend to work slowly, > so for me, this would be a long-term commitment and I wouldn't expect > results to be immediate. > > Please let me know if there's anything I can do (consulting on > appearance/placement of symbols, testing new features, etc.) > > Thanks to the developers and everyone who posts helpful information to > this list. Of all the notation tools I have used or tried, LilyPond is the > most dynamic and exciting. > > Best regards, > > David Stocker > > > rosea wrote: >> >> Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Am Montag, 30. Juni 2008 schrieb rosea: >>> >>>> I was wondering if Lilypond also supports tablature features for guitar >>>> like: slides, hammer on, pull off, bend etc. >>>> >>> >>> It supports bend. About the others, I'm not sure. When I wrote >>> musicxml2ly, I >>> was looking for them, but then I don't know how they should look in the >>> score, anyway. >>> >>> Maybe you can give some examples for them? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Reinhold >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Hi all, >> >> I've made a scan of the notation-tablature-legend from the book 'Eric >> Clapton - Unplugged', (which is one of the best selling guitar books I >> think). >> >> I made a *.png and a *.pdf you can download here: >> http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?id=manuals_tutorials_and_howto_s&cache=cache&media=notation_tablature_legend_clapton.pdf >> >> >> >> http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/1259/notationtablatureclaptolc8.png >> >> I didn't find options for bends, pull off, slide, hammer on etc. for >> Lilypond and I think there are a lot of guitarists, bass players and >> more, who would love to see a better tablature support for Lilypond. >> Especially now with the export function in TuxGuitar to Lilypond. >> >> I'm looking forward for reactions and I hope some smart guys can make >> this happen for Lilypond. If I can give support or if you need more >> information about tablature and notation, you can always ask! >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Roooz >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/tablature-tp18190814p18827643.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
