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Hmm yeah I guess what I really want is a maekdown style mini-language that compiles to tab format.
by djtriptych 2mo ago
Hmm yeah I guess what I really want is a maekdown style mini-language that compiles to tab format.
- Finnucane 2mo agoIsn't that what LilyPond does, more or less?
- TylerE 2mo agoNot really. The lilypond format is extremely...complicated and obscure (and that's my polite take on it). Even simple stuff is quite complex. Very very far from Markdown's virtually WYSIWYG.
- Finnucane 2mo agoYes, but music notation is not simple text. Markdown was made for simple text. If you try to represent more complex text, it turns into Asciidoc or Rst.
- TylerE 2mo agoThere's no such thing as "Tab format". Tabs are just ascii text.
- djtriptych 2mo agolol markdown and html are also both ascii/unicode and by themselves disprove your point.
- TylerE 2mo agoUm, how exactly does that even tangentially relate to my point?
- djtriptych 2mo agoall textual representations of data are "formats" and one being easier to edit is a totally valid use case. like 'x57675' instead of a full tab. or # title instead of <h1>title</h1>
- Affric 2mo agoI had people who had been writing Tabs on paper for a very long time. I would wager that ascii is just a representation
- rrherr 2mo ago"VexTab is a language that allows you to easily create, edit, and share standard notation and guitar tablature. Unlike ASCII tab, which is designed for readability, VexTab is designed for writeability." https://vexflow.com/vextab/tutorial.html https://vexflow.com/vextab/tutorial.html
- d1sxeyes 2mo agoAlphaTex? https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/introduction https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/introduction Not quite MD, but fairly easy to learn.