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by ekglimmer 3037 days ago
This is really neat. Would love to see a version for guitar as well, but would be a little more difficult to display I imagine.
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Not that hard. I wrote a thing... jeez... 20 odd years ago https://ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pstab?lang=en ... which let you typeset guitar tablature, chords, and so on.

I expect you really mean: find a way to play a given chord without breaking your fingers, but when playing classical guitar you'll move your hand while playing arpeggios, so you're not constrained to just positions you can strum. You can solve for that, it's just not that useful.

The code's a bit embarrassing, the only program of any size I wrote in postscript - at the time it seemed the best way to 'write once, run anywhere useful' given the 286's, mac classics, and Sparc 2's I had access to; it ran on on the office Laserwriter.

Best thing about writing it is, I got a letter from a guy who used it to publish a book of banjo music in new zealand, because it was the only thing he could find at the time that handled 5 stringed instruments.