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Selecting {Edit}{Text Manager...} (or pressing [ [Edit] allows you to modify an existing text. You must first select the text to be edited from the list to the left in the dialog. This opens a simple sub-dialog with a single field, containing the pre-selected text, in which you can make any changes you feel are necessary. This operation can also be performed directly in the TablEdit working window. Simply click on the text to be modified, make your changes and then click anywhere else in the window to end the operation. The operation affects all occurrences of this text in the tablature as well as in the Text Manager list. [New] Opens the same simple dialog as "Edit" so that you can create a new text. It's the first thing to do if the list is empty. A line feed can be inserted by pressing [Return]. Rapid access to the "Edit" and "New" dialogs is provided by the keyboard shortcut [T]. If the cursor is located on an existing text anchor, the corresponding text is automatically displayed for editing. If the cursor is located on an empty space, you can create and enter new text. [Delete] deletes a text item from the Text Manager list. If the deleted text has already been inserted somewhere in the tablature, the corresponding text marker(s) will also be deleted. [Extract] Allows you to extract existing texts from another TablEdit (*.tef) file or each line from a plain text (*.txt) file as a new text item. TablEdit uses the file extension to determine which action to take. [Close] exits the dialog without inserting new texts that may have been created into the tablature or stave. If, however, new texts have been created they will remain stored in the Text Manager list. [Insert] inserts the text selected in the Text Manager list at the current cursor location and exits the dialog. The magnifying glass icon allows you to search through the tablature for occurrences of the text currently selected in the list. This allows you to use the text strings as bookmarks in order to navigate through large tablatures. Font selection The font to be used for individual text items can be selected from among any of those you've defined in the "Font Options" dialog. Selection can be made from the dropdown list of the contextual "Format" dialog. Text position The four "radio" buttons in this section of the dialog allow you to select the location at which text is to be inserted relative to tablature or stave. Text can be displayed (and printed) above, below or within the tablature or above the stave. The choice is yours. Texts inserted above the stave are displayed and printed only if the stave is included in the display/printout. Texts inserted relative to the tablature are not displayed or printed if only "Notation" has been selected.Texts can be composed of multiple lines (which can be useful in the case of lyrics). The check box in the lower right-hand corner of the dialog allows you to indicate whether the text being inserted should be centered on the text anchor. The default setting is that the first character of the text is aligned on the anchor point. Tips: To adjust the vertical position of a text, you can profit from the fact that TablEdit stacks texts whose markers are located at the same horizontal position. Thus, inserting a text line consisting of a simple space allows you to separate neighboring text lines. In addition, the vertical position of a specific line of text can be finely adjusted by placing the cursor on it's anchor point in the tablature and pressing the [+] or [ - ] keys. This setup can also be made from the contextual "Format" dialog. In order to align the lyrics of a song with the notes of the melody, insert a text at the beginning of the measure, enter the lyrics corresponding to that measure, adding the ">" character to the beginning of the text. Each time there is a space or an hyphen character, TablEdit automatically jumps to the next note position. In order to print a space without jump, just type '+'. In order to print an hyphen without jump, just type '_'. In order to insert a jump and to print a continuous line, just type '~'. |