TAB formatting option

How about a tab formatting option to help people post useable musical snippets?

If you look at the thread asking for the Shave and Haircut Riff, you'll see my explanation of how I make sure my tab snippets line up (mono-spaced font and making sure multiple spaces don't run together when rendered by the browser).

I was thinking of knocking up a simple PHP utility to apply appropriate formatting to a block of tab that could then be copy and pasted across ... and then it struck me that maybe we could have a tab code ([ tab] ... [ /tab]) to turn this:

G|---------------5---|-
D|-----2---3-4-5-----|-
A|-3-----------------|-
E|-------------------|-
q q t t t q

into this:

G|---------------5---|-
D|-----2---3-4-5-----|-
A|-3-----------------|-
E|-------------------|-
   q   q   t t t q

Whaddya think?

Wulf

 

The reason I don't use [ code ] is that I don't like the 'artifacts' it leaves round the information:

Code:

[b]this[/b] is a code block

Also, it's not one of the available buttons. I think we could safely loose the 'PHP' button (I've never seen it used on this forum) and replace it with a tab button.

The line builder might be a neat idea, but it would certainly be a 'non-trivial' task to get it to produce standard notation on the fly!

Wulf

 

Okay - you're right about that... I'd assumed it was part of creating a list (a side effect of too much wikifying!).

However, while putting something in courier is pretty easy, remembering to replace all the spaces with HTML non-breaking space entities is a little more complex.

Since I don't see many code or PHP snippets here but a reasonable number of tab examples I'd like to see a button to help speed that process.

Wulf