Patrick, Thanks for the run down. From your comments and others, I would guess that the lack might have something to do with the lack of standards in ascii tabs and the perception of how hard it would be to find a solution and so on. Encourages me that my idea of starting with what can be done easily and working from there might be a useful one. Likewise Perl and the command line allows me freedom from platform restrictions similar to LilyPond. All and all a 'fun' project to work on--- for at least my definition of 'fun'...
---hsm On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Patrick Schmidt <p.l.schm...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Hugh, > > I haven't heard of any perl scripts to convert ascii tabs to lilypond (apart > from your script. Sounds interesting!) but I know of two programs that are > supposed to be able to import ascii and export MusicXML (with musicxml2ly you > can convert to LilyPond): > > 1) GuitarPro (commercial) > 2) Harmony Assistant (commercial) > > With GuitarPro 5 (Mac-version) I can open .txt/.tab-files but tablature is > faulty and the program crashes when I try to export MusicXML. Harmony > Assistant seems to do a rather decent job but I only tried the demo version. > http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/harmony.htm > > TablEdit could be an alternative. It can also read ascii and you can export > it to abc and midi. (With abc2ly and midi2ly you can convert to lilypond.) > http://tabledit.mac.findmysoft.com/ > > There also seems to exist a solution to convert from midi to ascii and vice > versa but I haven't tried it. > http://www.gnmidi.com/handbook/english/txt2midi.htm > > hth > patrick > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- >> Datum: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 05:05:00 -0700 >> Von: Hugh Myers <hsmy...@gmail.com> >> An: Federico Bruni <brunol...@gmx.com> >> CC: lilypond-user <lilypond-user@gnu.org> >> Betreff: Re: Is there a perl script to partially convert ascii tabs to >> lilypond input? > >> I asked the question (after googling I might add ;-) ) because I >> figured if anything was on going it would have been heard about here. >> Mostly I asked in order to avoid re-inventing the wheel. While I don't >> claim to have solved the problem, what I do have is what I call an 80% >> solution. It will read in an ascii text file and produce an .ly file. >> It does so with no effort to solve any of the trickier problems >> involved, as yet not even the features I more or less plan on--- this >> is something I started a year or so ago and only now have gotten back >> to. Mostly I write these sort of things because the challenge is >> interesting, giving me a chance to learn about the language or the >> problem or both... >> >> --hsm >> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Federico Bruni <brunol...@gmx.com> wrote: >> > Marc Hohl wrote: >> >> >> >> But seriously: is tuxguitar able to read ascii tabs? It has a export >> >> function to lilypond. >> >> >> > >> > AFAIK, tuxguitar can't open ascii tabs. >> > But it can import midi file very well. >> > Does a good converter ascii2midi exist? >> > >> > Kguitar should be able to read ascii files (use .tab extension and you >> > will see the file in the open window), but I've tried an ascii file >> > right now and does not work. >> > It says: >> > "Can't load or import song!It may be a damaged/wrong file format or, >> > if you're trying experimental importers it may be a flaw with the >> > import code." >> > >> > I don't have any other ascii tab so I can't test it much.. >> > >> > HTH, >> > Federico >> > >> > -- >> > http://gnurag.net/blog/ >> > http://fsfe.org/ >> > http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/LibrePlanetItalia >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- > Sarah Kreuz, die DSDS-Siegerin der Herzen, mit ihrem eindrucksvollen > Debütalbum "One Moment in Time". http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/musik > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
