Re: Hello

[Carl Sorensen]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 05:25, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:


> Ok, more on the topic: I subscribed to ask: is the electric guitar tabulature 
> notation (characters b/B for bending, acciacattura bending (barred or dotted 
> b/B), s/S for slide and P/H for pull-off/hammer-on) being scheduled in TODO? 
> I have seen them being remembered as "bugs: this is missing" in 2.4.2 docs; 
> from an outsider point of view, they seem pretty straightforward to 
> implement, but they would make a great addition for electric guitar music.
> 

It appears that nobody is working on Tablature right now.  As you may
know, LilyPond basically gets worked on by people who are interested in
adding new features.  Han-Wen and Jan mostly focus on classical music,
but are very willing to provide help to others who want to add
features.  In my case, it's fret diagrams that I want to get into
LilyPond.

One of the things I love about LilyPond is that if I don't like the way
something works, I can get in and change it.  Try doing that with
Finale...

> IN case, I may try to see if I can lend a hand...

You'd be very welcome to give a hand.  Improving the tablature notation
would be appreciated by many guitarists.  

You can get started by referring to the web site:
http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/

The code you'll need to work with is likely found in 
lily/tab-note-heads-engraver.cc.

Have fun!

Carl Sorensen