Hi Luke - TabHelper looks very nice. I wish I had it when I did a bunch of TAB transcriptions last year. But I'm a mac guy. I've got excel and can read the source of your example. I assume you've written a program that takes the .xls file and converts it to TAB format. Is there any chance you'd make a mac version or help someone (like me) do it?
steve On Aug 18, 2007, at 12:02 AM, Luke Orlando Emmet wrote: > (Apologies for any multiple postings - original posting to > Renaissance list did not show up after 12 hours.) > > Greetings all, > > Having recently returned to the Lute after a 10 year > absence, I was looking round for some software for > typesetting lute tabulature. Preferably freeware, of > course, as I am only an amateur on a small budget. I > found Wayne Cripps' excellent TAB software for > typesetting lute and guitar tabulatures, and I am sure the > you are all aware of this. > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/AboutTab.html > > However, as acknowledged on the TAB website, TAB is > not particularly user friendly for the new user, being based > on plain text and run as a command line application. To > visualise the relationship between the plain text input and > the typeset output you have to do a mental rotation and > reflection. Extra characters can offset the columns so it > can prove difficult to verify what you have put down and > to visualise how it might be interpreted by TAB. > > Anyway, I thought it would be worth while trying to put a > graphical front end to TAB that would allow you to use a > grid based editor (Microsoft Excel!) to create TAB files. > Thus TabHelper was born. > > TabHelper is free software for Microsoft Windows and > includes the following features: > > - provides a simple graphical front end to TAB, using > MS Excel as the editor. (The TAB binary is included > as part of TabHelper installation) > - allows printing directly to PDF if GhostScript is > also installed on the machine (must be installed > separately) > - TAB plain text format can be copied to the clipboard > - includes the manual for TAB written by Leonard Williams > > For further details and to download, visit the TabHelper > web page: > > http://www.marmaladefoo.com/docs/software/tabhelper/introduction > > Any feedback is very welcome, and I hope it will prove > useful to some of you. > > Also if anyone has any suggestions of other lute or guitar > communities that might be interested in using it, please let > me know. > > Best Wishes > > - Luke > > __________________________________________ > > Various gadgets widgets, links and chat > http://www.marmaladefoo.com > __________________________________________ > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --- http://homepage.mac.com/stevepur --
