Re: Is there a perl script to partially convert ascii tabs to lilypond input?

[Patrick Schmidt]

Hi Hugh,

I haven't heard of any perl scripts to convert ascii tabs to lilypond (apart 
from your script. Sounds interesting!) but I know of two programs that are 
supposed to be able to import ascii and export MusicXML (with musicxml2ly you 
can convert to LilyPond):

1) GuitarPro (commercial)
2) Harmony Assistant (commercial)

With GuitarPro 5 (Mac-version) I can open .txt/.tab-files but tablature is 
faulty and the program crashes when I try to export MusicXML. Harmony Assistant 
seems to do a rather decent job but I only tried the demo version.
http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/harmony.htm

TablEdit could be an alternative. It can also read ascii and you can export it 
to abc and midi. (With abc2ly and midi2ly you can convert to lilypond.)
http://tabledit.mac.findmysoft.com/

There also seems to exist a solution to convert from midi to ascii and vice 
versa but I haven't tried it.
http://www.gnmidi.com/handbook/english/txt2midi.htm

hth
patrick
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 05:05:00 -0700
> Von: Hugh Myers <address@hidden>
> An: Federico Bruni <address@hidden>
> CC: lilypond-user <address@hidden>
> Betreff: Re: Is there a perl script to partially convert ascii tabs to        
> lilypond input?

> I asked the question (after googling I might add ;-) ) because I
> figured if anything was on going it would have been heard about here.
> Mostly I asked in order to avoid re-inventing the wheel. While I don't
> claim to have solved the problem, what I do have is what I call an 80%
> solution. It will read in an ascii text file and produce an .ly file.
> It does so with no effort to solve any of the trickier problems
> involved, as yet not even the features I more or less plan on--- this
> is something I started a year or so ago and only now have gotten back
> to. Mostly I write these sort of things because the challenge is
> interesting, giving me a chance to learn about the language or the
> problem or both...
> 
> --hsm
> 
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Federico Bruni <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Marc Hohl wrote:
> >>
> >> But seriously: is tuxguitar able to read ascii tabs? It has a export
> >> function to lilypond.
> >>
> >
> > AFAIK, tuxguitar can't open ascii tabs.
> > But it can import midi file very well.
> > Does a good converter ascii2midi exist?
> >
> > Kguitar should be able to read ascii files (use .tab extension and you
> > will see the file in the open window), but I've tried an ascii file
> > right now and does not work.
> > It says:
> > "Can't load or import song!It may be a damaged/wrong file format or,
> > if you're trying experimental importers it may be a flaw with the
> > import code."
> >
> > I don't have any other ascii tab so I can't test it much..
> >
> > HTH,
> > Federico
> >
> > --
> > http://gnurag.net/blog/
> > http://fsfe.org/
> > http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/LibrePlanetItalia
> >
> >
> 
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