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.
Take a look at the example below. The green code box below is editable -
try adding another stave by typing
tabstave on a new line.
options space=20
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 :h p5/4
text :w, |#segno, ,|, :hd, , #tr
options space=25
tabstave
notation=true
notes :q (5/4.5/5) (7/4.7/5)s(5/4.5/5) ^3^
notes :8 7-5/4 $.a./b.$ (5/4.5/5)h(7/5) =:|
notes :8 (12/5.12/4)ds(5/5.5/4)u 3b4/5
notes :h (5V/6.5/4.6/3.7/2) $.italic.let ring$ =|=
text :h, ,.font=Times-12-italic, D.S. al coda, |#coda
text :h, ,.-1, .font=Arial-14-bold,A13
text ++, .23, #f
Learn VexTab
VexTab designed to be easy to learn and intuitive to use. Follow the
tutorial on the VexTab Tutorial page to quickly
get started using VexTab.
The Code
VexTab is an open specification and the reference implementation
is open source. It is freely available complete and uncrippled for
non-commercial use.
If you would like to use this code on commercial websites, products,
plugins, or tools, please get in touch with me. (I'm very reasonable.)
Note that the underlying library, VexFlow, is completely open source and
distributed under the MIT license.
Get the code at the
VexTab GitHub Repo.