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This tab of the "Options" dialog controls the general appearance of your tablature on your monitor screen. Show Tablature / Notation These options determine whether TablEdit will display the Tablature and/or the notation of the modules. The small button marked "M" in the bottom, right-hand corner of the main TablEdit window allows you to cycle conveniently through the various settings (Notation, Tablature, Notation + Tablature). Line Mode / Page Mode This portion of the dialog allows you to choose your general display mode (not to be confused with View mode, the scale width of the measures). If the "Page Mode" option is selected, TablEdit displays the tablature and/or the notation of the active module only on multiple lines, using the entire height of the TablEdit screen. If the "Line Mode" option is selected, TablEdit will display the contents of all modules contained within the tablature in stacked lines. Each module occupies one line. In order to select a module, simply click on it or move the cursor to the desired module. By default, all the modules share the same Tablature/Notation screen mode. You can, however, specify a different screen mode for a given module in the Multitrack tab. The specified screen mode will remain unchanged when changing the general screen mode of the tablature unless you make the change from within the module concerned. Keeping [Shift] held down when clicking on the "M" button will allow you to toggle between Page mode or Line Mode. Tablature Presentation The radio button labeled "--0--3--" is selected by default. This means that the lines of the tablature grid cross the center of the numbers. The button labeled "_0_3_" allows you to modify the vertical placement of the numbers in relation to the grid lines. Clicking on the three small, blue dots on the far right of the "General" tab opens a sub-dialog allowing you to adjust the vertical alignment of the digits in relation to the tablature grid when you choose to place the digits between the lines of the grid rather than on them. This allows necessary adjustment when a larger than usual font is used. You can also choose to have the tablature displayed in a form where the usual numbers are replaced by letters of the alphabet. In this case, "a" replaces "0", "b" replaces "1", etc. The letter "j" is skipped. These conventions have their origins in the earliest form of tablature (siffra or chiffra) as a notational system. Note: Press [$] ([shift][4]) to change the numbers in the tablature to scale notes (C,D,E,F, etc.) This comes in handy to print a fretboard map showing notes on all strings/frets. Vertical spacings Between Systems Sets the vertical spacing, expressed in millimeters, between rows both on-screen and on printouts. This distance can also be set in Multitrack mode using the mouse by "dragging" the small, colored square located beneath the measure at the left-hand end of the current system. Between Notation and Tablature Sets the vertical spacing, expressed in millimeters, between the standard notation and the tablature both on-screen and on printouts. This has no effect unless both of these elements are selected. This distance can also be set using the mouse by "dragging" the small, colored square located above the measure at the left-hand end of the tablature. Between Tablature Lines This sets the vertical separation, expressed in pixels, between the lines of the tablature grid. Care must be taken to select a font of an appropriate size to avoid collisions both on-screen and on printouts.
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