I'm a relatively new LaTeX user and was excited to find out about TeX's
music notating capabilities. I've read some of the documentation supplied
with MusicTeX, but before I go any further learning a given package, I'd
like to ask you experienced folk a question or two.
My main interest in typesetting music is for the guitar and voice. As many
of you are no doubt aware, music written for guitar is only useful to a
large number of guitarists if it is provided in tablature. Tablature is a
notational system for those with insufficient classical music training,
wherein a six-lined staff system that replaces notes with numbers is
employed, in order to directly represent the notes as fingering positions on
the guitar fretboard. In most publications this six-lined staff is attached
below a treble staff with standard notation. My questions:
1) Does anyone out there use or are any of you aware of someone who uses TeX
to create such standard/tablature notational mix?
2) If so, which program (MusicTeX, MuTeX, etc., or perhaps a specific
package?) is best to use?
3) If not, what tricks could be used to create the six-lined staff, or might
I be better off purchasing a tablature software?
Sincere thanks,
Mike Chapman
Zurich, Switzerland
