---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marc Hohl &lt;marc(a)hohlart.de&gt; Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:19 PM Subject: [tablatures] [Request/Bounty] Tablature bends To: Lily-Devel List &lt;lilypond-devel(a)gnu.org&gt;rg>, &quot;tablatures(a)lilynet.net&quot; < tablatures(a)lilynet.net&gt; Hello all, after about half a year I have to admit that I don't have a) the time and b) the programming skills to implement bends in lilypond[1]. Sorry. Bends are important for guitarists, so I offer 75$ for this issue and I am posting to the tablature list, because perhaps someone else there is willing to donate some money too, to get this task done. During winter 2009/2010, Carl and I discussed the syntax and implementation details very intensively in about a dozen mails or so, and as things got nailed down, I wrote a roadmap how the bend engraver and the tab note head engraver have to be built/extended. There is also a file bend.ly which uses slurs to mimic bends - the graphic routines for bends are already there, so I offer my help providing and explaining the roadmap. A skilled developer should have no problems to code the new engraver and transform the graphic routines into c++ code. During the bend.ly story, I got in touch with developers of tuxguitar, so I think the whole bend story will make lilypond more attractive as a front end to tuxguitar users and of course to professional music typesetters working on contemporary guitar music. Greetings Marc [1] It was really hard for me to accept b), but to be honest, I still struggle with some basic concepts of c++ in combination with lilypond, which is *very* frustrating.