Re: Staff Tab notation support?

[Carl Sorensen]

On 1/9/10 6:25 PM, "Hugh Myers" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Don't know about anyone else, but I'd certainly like to see what
> you've got cooking...
> 
> --hsm
> 
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Eric Knapp <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Eric Knapp asked about doing something for Chapman Stick in 2008, but as far
>>> as I know, nothing ever came of it.
>>> 
>>> I doubt that there are any developers here at LilyPond that will take the
>>> lead in developing Staff Tab notation, but I think you'll find lots of
>>> support if you want some help developing it yourself.
>>> 
>>> HTH,
>>> 
>>> Carl
>> 
>> I'm that Eric and I am still working on doing StaffTab in Lilypond. I
>> have a set of music functions that work for me just fine. However, as
>> you all know, getting them to the point where others could use them
>> easily is another matter. I also don't have everything working. The
>> string indicators are small lines or rectangles that show what string
>> the note is played on. For an instrument with 12 strings this is quite
>> important. However, I can't make a foolproof mechanism for this, yet.
>> I need to learn Scheme and write some fairly smart functions before
>> this will be the way I want it to be. For now I do everything except
>> the string indicators in lilypond and then add those in a graphics
>> program. Since my scores are not large, this works for me.

If you'll ask for help, you'll almost certainly get it.  Give us a scan of
what you'd like to output, and we'll do our best to give you some ideas of
how to get there.

Thanks,

Carl