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:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByhfXkzbvI8VNEFEZFZlb2xZN3c
Best Wishes
- Luke Emmet
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LuteScribe – 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: [email protected] for
further details of how to download the current beta version.
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http://www.orlando-lutes.com
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