LilyPond
Modern tablature in LilyPond
Submitted by fede on 29 September, 2009 - 18:49
Finally, after some months of testing, the patches of Marc Hohl have been included in the core of LilyPond. Now also the modern musician who needs tablature will be able to use LilyPond easily and enjoy the good-looking of TabStaff..
I guess this will open the doors of LilyPond to many new users. Let's see how the default look of tablatures has been improved..
From GuitarPro to TuxGuitar
Submitted by fede on 15 June, 2009 - 19:23
Tuxguitar 1.1 supports polyphony
Until a couple of months ago, the only Windows proprietary application I needed on my GNU/Linux box was Guitar Pro, a shareware tab-editor available just for Windows and Mac. The free/libre alternative, TuxGuitar – despite the important benefit of running natively in Linux, that is without using Wine – could not satisfy me because it did not support polyphony. As I write mostly music for fingerstyle guitar, I do need to be able to display correctly the two voices (upper and lower) which define every fingerstyle piece.
