[djtriptych]

Hmm yeah I guess what I really want is a maekdown style mini-language that compiles to tab format.

[rrherr]

"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

[d1sxeyes]

AlphaTex?

https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/introduction

Not quite MD, but fairly easy to learn.

[TylerE]

There's no such thing as "Tab format". Tabs are just ascii text.

[Affric]

I had people who had been writing Tabs on paper for a very long time. I would wager that ascii is just a representation

[djtriptych]

lol markdown and html are also both ascii/unicode and by themselves disprove your point.

[TylerE]

Um, how exactly does that even tangentially relate to my point?

[djtriptych]

all 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>

[Finnucane]

Isn't that what LilyPond does, more or less?

[TylerE]

Not 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]

Yes, 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.