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TablEdit creates great looking ASCII tabs like the one shown below: To use this feature, select {File}{Export ASCII...}. The options contained in the resulting dialog box allow you to customize the look of your ASCII tab: Page Width The "Page Width" setting determines the number of characters in each line of tab. 80 is the default value, although you may want to use another value (such as 72) to avoid word wrapping in a text editor. Beat Width The "Beat Width" setting allows you to set the number of characters per beat in a measure. A setting of eight or four produces nice, legible tabs. The "Variable" option allow an export in which the time width allotted is based on the values of the existing notes. A code displayed above the tablature (see explanation below) indicates the value of the notes on the first three strings. A similar code, displayed beneath the tablature, indicates the value for the bass notes. The letter codes used are as follows: w = whole note; h = 1/2 note; q = 1/4 note; e = 1/8th note; s = 1/16th note; t = 1/32nd note. This file format is of interest only for communicating with musicians using platforms other than Windows 95/98 or MacOS. From Measure - To Measure These two settings allow you to determine which portion of the file should be exported by selecting the first and last measures for the export operation. Trace Reading List Selecting the "Trace Reading List" check box exports the Reading Guides defined in the Reading List. If there is no Reading List, then no guides are included in your ASCII TAB. Append to file If the "Append to file" option is selected, the text will be added at the end of the existing file. Otherwise, the existing file will be overwritten. File Click on [File] to select the disk and folder that the exported file should be saved to. [OK] will remain greyed out until you've entered a name for your ASCII file. TablEdit determines the format of destination file according to the extension of this file: - default -> Plain text - .htm -> HTML - .rtf -> Rich Text Format, useable by any word processor (WordPad, MS Word etc...) Extra options The [>>] button gives you access to advanced options:
For example, with the options chosen above, one obtains the following result:
[Cancel] closes the dialog without carrying out the export operation. Note: To properly display ASCII tablature in most word processors, you have to use a monospaced font such as "Courier". Otherwise the lines of tablature will skew and the notes won't line up properly with the timing marks or even with each other. Note: Normally TablEdit exports only the active module. If you wish to export multiple modules to an ASCII tablature file, first select the modules to be exported in Preferences -> Multitrack. The resulting text file cannot, of course, be re-imported. Note: The TablEdit demo version will only export the first 16 measures of your tablature.
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