[senshu]

I think I understand what you mean. A trained guitar player would not need such a tool, and a beginner should probably avoid using it :). My original idea was to explore how I could rapidly get playable tablatures of jazz solos from available sheet music that I still cannot read fluently.

> It’s nice that computing the good fingerings takes a while

Actually, a few tweaks and the use of optimization options allowed to dramatically reduce the execution time for my 20-note example.

> Would be good to see some harmony and how the solver would deal with multiple notes at once.

Yes. I think it would take some effort to adapt the current set of constraints but it should be feasible.

> If you’re seriously writing out tabs and need some software, I’ve been using Dorico and it’s pretty damn good

Thanks for the tip. They don't seem to offer a Linux version though.

[adrianh]

Check out Soundslice (https://www.soundslice.com/) for an excellent tab and notation editor. It’s web-based and hence works well on Linux.