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This tab allows you to customize the labels used by TablEdit to display the names of notes, the letters used for fingering indications and the abbreviations used for the most common effects.

Thus, you can replace the letters C, D, E, F, G, A and B by their French equivalents Do, Ré, Mi, etc... or replace just the B by the H commonly used in Sweden and Germany. Please note that this latter also means that Bb will be displayed as Hb which is the common designation for Bb in, for example, Sweden, not as "Bb" (blame it on a monk scribe during the Middle Ages).

You may also elect to have no text displayed at all above the slurs indicating special effects.

If the initial used for the right-hand thumb has been changed to a "T", the left-hand thumb indicator will also be displayed as a "T" but within a circle.

Dulcimer Extra Fret

This field, which appears only if the current instrument is defined as a dulcimer in the "Instrument" dialog, allows you to change the character used by TablEdit to indicate that a note is played on an extra fret of the instrument.

Upward Note Stem Default

This field set the point at which note stems will be forced upwards without manual alteration. The default setting is >B1 (B in the first octave, i.e. the open second string of a guitar in standard tuning). The setting you actually use is a question of individual taste and needs. It should also be noted that the choice of stem default pitch can also be prefaced by "<" which will reverse the stem directions.

4/4 = C

As an option, you can elect to display the time signature using the 4/4 = C and 2/2 = "Cut" time conventions . In the latter case, don't forget to continue writing with 4/4 intervals i.e. based on 1/4 and 1/8th notes.

8va

If you select the "8va" option, 8va will be displayed and printed below the clef in the notation. This indicates that the actual pitch of the notes are, in reality, an octave lower than that indicated by the notation.

TablEdit systematically maintains this convention as long as the pitch of Middle C has not been altered in Instrument - Clef.