Page Layout options

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This tab contains the page layout settings for margins, header/footer size and content, etc.

Top & Bottom margins

Defines the vertical space within which printed objects are printed. As a general rule of layout, the bottom margin should be slightly larger than the top margin.

Left & Right margins

Defines the horizontal space within which printed objects are printed.

Indent

This option allows you to set the indent of the very first line of the score. To set the indent of the line following a line break, use the line break options.

Footer & Page Layout

By default, TablEdit prints the page number and the page count centered at the bottom of each page.

By default, TablEdit prints the title, the sub-title and any comments at the top of the first page with only the title and sub-title, in small characters, on the following pages. You can adapt this procedure to your own taste by simply re-defining the headers manually

To define headers and/or footers for each printed page, type the required text in the "Header" and "Footer" boxes along with the appropriate formatting codes. You can always restore the predefined values by clicking on [Default].

You can also use page macros to format the text and insert the title, sub-title, comments, etc...

You can add a page number offset (handy when putting together a book, for instance).

Formatting codes:

&nthe total page count
&pthe current page number
You can have TablEdit add or subtract a constant number of pages to/from the current page number. This is very handy if, for example, you're preparing a book for publication.
&n-10(subtracts 10 from the total number of pages displayed)
&p+120(adds 120 to the current page number)
&ithe module name (in multitrack mode, the module name is replaced by the name of each instrument
&kthe capo position
&x[nn]by default, the first item in the Text manager list. if "&xnn", the item #nn in the list.
&ltext that follows this code is to be left justified
&rtext that follows this code is to be right justified
&ctext that follows this code is to be centered
&tthe title of the song
&sthe author (or sub-title) of the song
&mthe comments
&1text that follows this code is to be formatted with font #1
&2text that follows this code is to be formatted with font #2 etc...

Please note that the codes &r, &l and &c cause a carriage return in the header. This can, in some cases, be useful. For example the string "&cfirst &csecond &cthird" will give the following result:

first

second

third