Description
A Joplin plugin for rendering guitar tablature using VexTab
Additional Information
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Maintainers: | francospeziali |
Version: | 0.1.2 |
Minimum app version: | 2.8 |
Downloads: This version: | 129 |
Last updated: | 2023-06-14T19:07:08Z |
📣 This is a plugin for the Joplin note-taking app.
VexTab Plugin for Joplin
A Joplin plugin for rendering guitar tablature using the VexTab API 🎼🎸
What is VexTab?
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.
How to use
- Follow these instructions and install the plugin
- Create a new note, or edit an existing note
- Create a fenced block with the codetype
joplin-plugin-vextab
Example
```joplin-plugin-vextab
tabstave notation=true key=A time=4/4
notes :q =|: (5/2.5/3.7/4) :8 7-5h6/3 ^3^ 5h6-7/5 ^3^ :q 7V/4 |
notes :8 t12p7/4 s5s3/4 :8 3s:16:5-7/5 :q p5/4
text :w, |#segno, ,|, :hd, , #tr
```
This will render the image below;
Customising
There are a few options you can pass into VexTab to customise its appearance.
"scale"
: number"width"
: number"x"
: number"y"
: number
Write these as a JSON object after the token info;
Example
```joplin-plugin-vextab { "scale": 2, "width": 500 }
```
VexTab
Development
This plugin comes packaged with a distribution copy of VexTab 3.0.6
See the following GitHub issue
Building the plugin
npm run dist
Updating the plugin framework
To update the plugin framework, run;
npm run update