Re: guitar tab feature request

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 3/23/09 5:02 AM, "Marc Hohl" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>    
>> 
>> I assume that this will happen when tablature is updated.  As far as I know,
>> nobody is yet planning to do the work on tablature.  They are only planning
>> to put in the requests.
>> 
>> I'd be happy to have a Frog (even a new Frog, like you, Marc, if you're
>> interested or willing) take responsibility for tablature. I'd give any
>> advice that I could, and you'd have access to help from the lilypond-devel
>> list for those things that are beyond me.
>>  
> Hm, I think if everyone waits until someone else is doing the job, we'll
> have to be patient :-)
> Can you explain to me what a "Frog" is (and what he has to do)?
> I don't know much about scheme and the lilypond internals (yet?),
> but I am willing to spend some time in bringing this project further on,
> because the lack of specific tablature features is the main reason for
> me not using lilypond for every piece of music I write down.
> 

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HTH,

Carl