TablEdit Users Say:

"As someone who sight reads music at about one note every 5 seconds but can play from TAB more or less immediately TablEdit has been an invaluable tool for me these past ten years or so. Enter the "real" music (and once you get the keyboard interface together this is really easy) and I have the mandolin TABs I need in no time. Or enter what I'm doing on the guitar as TAB and provide "real" music for others to follow. I've also used it to put together melodic banjo pieces that would have been difficult to deal with any other way. Great tool!"
- Mike Robertson, Oslo, Norway

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TablEdit and LilyPond

If you want to give the arrangments you created with TablEdit the typographical aesthetics of traditional engraved music, LilyPond export is for you.

The command { File -> Export -> Lilypond } allows you to create LilyPond files (.ly extension).

Then drag and drop the .ly file on the Lilypond desktop icon. A pdf file is automatically created by Lilypond.

The output of Lilypond is far from that of TablEdit as shown by the examples below. For each example you can find:
- the original TablEdit .tef file
- the .ly generated by TablEdit,
- the pdf printed by TablEdit using PrimoPDF.
- the pdf generated by Lilypond from the .ly file.

Click on the icon or to download the related file.

Musette In Dmaj - Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Download PDF printed with TablEdit
  • Download PDF created with LilyPond from TablEdit export
  • Download Zipped .tef and .ly files

 

Bourree in E min - Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Download PDF printed with TablEdit
  • Download PDF created with LilyPond from TablEdit export
  • Download Zipped .tef and .ly files

 

Aria Suite n° 3 - Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Download PDF printed with TablEdit
  • Download PDF created with LilyPond from TablEdit export
  • Download Zipped .tef and .ly files

 

At this stage, there is much information in TablEdit files that are not included in the exported LilyPond file. Any idea, comment or suggestion would be welcome, since it would help us identifying issues to tackle and priority developments. Please use the Feedback form to get in touch with us.