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cknadler / marktab-c

Concise, machine readable guitar tabs
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Idea: maybe use string names instead of numbers? #3

Closed russplaysguitar closed 11 years ago

russplaysguitar commented 11 years ago

I get a little dyslexic looking at all the numbers. This would be nicer to read (imo) and save me from having to remember which direction to count the stupid strings:

A:5 A:5 A:7 A:5 D:5 D:4 A:5 A:5 A:7 A:5 D:7 D:5 A:5 A:5 G:5 G:4 D:7 D:5 D:4 G:5 G:5 G:4 D:5 D:7 D:5

cknadler commented 11 years ago

I want a way to specify tuning, probably in a config section in the header of the file. That would cause this to fail unless it adapted to the change in tuning. For example:

Tuning: D A D G B E

D:5 becomes ambiguous.

You could name the strings unique characters, such as D A d G B E or E A D G B e but I feel like this just makes things confusing. This problem will also get harder to deal with for guitars with more than 6 strings.

russplaysguitar commented 11 years ago

Point taken. I wouldn't mind using upper/lower, but then if you have 3 using the same tuning, it's over.

Maybe it could support string names in standard tuning only?

russplaysguitar commented 11 years ago

BTW, here is my first marktab attempt: https://gist.github.com/3937246

cknadler commented 11 years ago

I giggled at the Esomething. I totally agree that the numbers start to look like a wall. I'm definitely open to suggestions to make that prettier.

russplaysguitar commented 11 years ago

Well, a picture is worth 1000 words, which is why we have tabs to begin with.

That being said, I did start to get the hang of marktab after writing that gist and it was nice to be able to "write tab" using a simple text editor without worrying about formatting a bunch of dashes like you would with tab text.

Besides the lettering for standard tuning, I'm not sure what else could be done about the wall.