Tab is a program to typset lute tablature, for renaissance and baroque
lutes and theorboes, in French and Italian notation. It works like TeX
in that a plain text file (that bears little resemblance to the desired
output) is created and processed into a device independent printer
format file. The standard output format is PostScript, which laserwriter
printers print.

With the dvi option this file can be previewed with a dvi previewer
and formatted for your printer with a dvi to printer filter, which is
not included in this package.

This program is not particularly beginner-friendly, but is quite fast
once you have gotten used to it.