Viktor Mastoridis wrote: > Hello to all, > > I play bouzouki and guitar and most of my music repertoire is in > (Eastern European) uneven time signatures (5/8, 7/8, 9/8 etc). > > I was trying to write Guitar/Bouzouki tablature/notation of this music > on Linux in the past but without much success. > > The main (hidden) problem with these rhythms is the grouping of notes, > i.e. > 5/8 can be 2+3/8 or 3+2/8, > 7/8 is 2+2+3/8 or 3+2+2/8 etc... > > Thus the grouping of the notes needs to reflect this fact as it is > essential for the performer. > > My experience so far: > > Songwite, Gnometab and Kguitar don't support this feature. > > Lilypond - great for output, covers almost all needs, but grouping has > to be done bar-by-bar which is really time consuming. Chords are not > supported well for now (name and display) > > TuxGuitar is amazingly easy for note input, but it doesn't support > note grouping as well. I requested this feature on their forum some > time ago but no response from the developers so far > > Exporting Tuxguitar to Lilypond is what I use at moment, but for a > longer instrumentals in 9/8 with say, two bouzoukia, it takes days to > edit/produce a clear tablature/notation. > > Any suggestions on this will be greatly appreciated. > > Viktor > Did you read this message? > Anyone who would like to be involved in documenting/discussing > features missing from LilyPond's guitar tab support, please send me an > off-list email at the following address: > > dstocker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > When we have a list of around 10-15 specific items, we can then > prioritize and start to talk about sponsorship of features and then > send a proposal to -devel. > > Thanks, > > Dave _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
