[pmwiki-users] Guitar Tab (was: Bridge stuff)

Dominique Faure dominique.faure at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 06:09:29 CDT 2007


On 4/23/07, Martin Fick <mogulguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anyone wnat to bite and make a nice guitar tab recipe?
>  I'm not even sure what that would entail, but I am
> trying to learn how to play and I see all these sites
> that have ascii art tabulature for songs and it seems
> like it would be nice if this ascii art could be
> pasted into a page and easily made to look real nice.
>
>
> I've tried a few guitar tab editors and can't get past
> the starting gate; they are just not simple (sorta
> like trying to use the gimp or photoshop for the first
> time, but worse.)  It seems like this (editing tabs)
> should be an easy task?
>
> I would imaginge that with CSS you could probably draw
> some nice lines that look like a tab without even
> using images?  Of course, extending this to standard
> music notation would be nice too.  Unfortunately I
> don't have enough domain knowledge to even know what
> would be nice.
>
> A few more of these domain specific recipes, math,
> chess, now bridge and maybe music, and soon pmwiki
> should really be able to gain some new audiences. :)
>
> -Martin
>

Somewhat already been done ;) with the help of the DomTT recipe and a
bunch of CSS styling there (top of page):

http://gnuzoo.org/guitarstuff/AliceCooper/Eighteen

but as the bottom of the page may suggest, guitar songs aren't easy to
describe using regular text.

Dominique



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