TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type

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• So awesome. Sad it isn't getting the attention it deserves
  by efilife
• OMG. This solves like 8 problems with me. Currently teaching my niece guitar basics and have always wanted this for my guitar videos.
  by djtriptych
• Extremely cool. This got me thinking that I would love to have a mermaid-like dsl for creating full tabs and apparently it exists![0]

  [0] https://github.com/0xfe/vextab

  by tuvix
• This is one of those things that should obviously exist and I'm mad I didn't think of it!
  by jakefleming
• The name is misleading. The glyphs are showing individual chord shapes. I can't write out a song using this. At best I can use this at the top of a tab to remind myself how the chords are meant to be shaped. But that doesn't appear to work much beyond the basic cowboy chords. For example, I tried 577655 which is an A major barre chord, and it didn't render. I realize a font can only do so much, but I wouldn't pay for this.
  by SaberTail
• Hmm yeah I guess what I really want is a maekdown style mini-language that compiles to tab format.
  by djtriptych