Question:
There is no such thing as a norm, and imagining one to exist is wishful thinking. The debate between tablature and pitch notation is as old as classical music, and the number of variants on it since about 1679 is more than can be recounted in a short post. See this for a broader outline: http://www.editionsorphee.com/trans/trans.html This is not a debate about different languages, but about different notational systems, i.e., different alphabets. As David Iwaoka pointed out, the advantage of pitch notation is that other musicians can read guitar music, and vice versa. This is exactly the point made in 1679 by the Sieur Perrine. Tablature use is one sure way to guarantee that guitarists will remain outside the main stream of music. If you wish to interact with other musicians and play with them, as some of us do everyday, then better learn to use the universal system of notation for music. But if you are happy in your tablature ghetto playing with yourself, then by all means, play from tablature. Any comment?
Answer:
I can do fine without a moronic lecture from you, about the history of guitar, to use as cover for your ignorance of notational precedence. You might consider pulling your head out of your ass and wake up to the fact that in today's world, Bach, Weiss, Dowland etc. are played as much if not more than anything else. At Oberlin GFA 2005 you can look at the programs, and you will quickly see that Bach, or Weiss, were on almost every single program. If you choose to play other people's arrangements of this rep. that's fine and good, and it seems from your complete lack of expertise in tablature, you are quite incapable of making your own transcription from original tablature and therefore must rely upon other more knowledgeable scholars to do it for you. Steve Aron has recognized this, and feels it's a good idea for his students to understand the basic working of tablature, so they can make their own transcriptions of a large and vital part of the guitar's rep.
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