Hello

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> I'd like to dive in and take a stab at providing tablature (banjo) 
> functionality to Lilypond. My experience in coding is mostly straight C 
> and Python. To be honest, I have lurked here a while and have even put 
> myself through a tutorial on Guile/LISP.
 
> I would appreciate, very much, some discussion on the best way to go about 
> providing tablature in Lilypond. I believe that I'll have to devise a font 
> to provide the fret numbers for grobs. Should I start here? 

No, don't that. Use the same technique as TextScript is using to
create digits. Twiddle to create a staff with six lines, and a
engraver that transforms Fret_requests to the appropriate Text
object. Once that is working, invent a good syntax, and write the more
advanced stuff like slides.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden    | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/