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TablEdit Manual 2.65
Edit Menu
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This menu contains general editing controls designed to save you time when working with TablEdit. The {Insert} sub-menu contains controls dealing with various special elements of your tablature. This includes the insertion of musical symbols, percussion events, crescendos/decrescendos, etc.
Important : In order to learn how to use TablEdit's work space, insert notes, rests, modify and manipulate existing notes, etc… please consult the "Note Entry and Editing" section of the tutorial.
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| These two menu items allow you to correct any entry errors you may have made.
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| Selecting {Edit}{Redo} (or using the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl]+[Y]) will reverse the effects of any "Undo" operations that may have been performed. Again, this process is performed step-by-step.
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| This deletes the selected note(s) from the tablature and copies them to the clipboard. The operation can also be done using the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl]+[X]. The selection can then be re-inserted at a location of your choice by placing the cursor at the new location and selecting either {Edit}{Paste} (see below) or using the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl]+[V].
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| This performs essentially the same operation as "Cut" except that the selected note(s) aren't deleted from their original location. The shortcut for this operation is [Ctrl]+[C].
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| This inserts notes copied to the clipboard using either "Cut" or "Copy" at the cursor location. The keyboard shortcut for this is [Ctrl]+[V]. Any already existing content at the insertion point will be deleted.
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| This function has its principal use in connection with importing external file types, especially MIDI files. Its effect is to align a selected note or series of notes with the nearest note of the selected duration. If, for instance, you've imported a MIDI file which contains a "roll", this will usually show up as a series of 1/64th notes spread out over a space equivalent to a 1/4 note or an 1/8th note.
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|  | Select the note(s) to be aligned,
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| | Press [I] or select the "Quantize Notes..." command from the menu. If you have chosen the menu command, you will be asked to specify note duration to use as alignment value. Otherwise, the previously selected value will be used silently.
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The dialog that is displayed when you select this item allows you to insert blank measures at the location of your choice.
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Simply enter the number of measures you wish inserted into the top field, either by using the small arrows located to the right of the field or by entering the number directly into the field from the keyboard.
Follow the same procedure to indicate the location at which you want them inserted by
entering the number of the existing measure after which they are to be placed. If you want to enter the blank measures at the very beginning of the tablature, simply enter "0" in the "After:" field.
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This allows the deletion of almost any number of measures from the tablature. Note that this removes not only the contents of the measures but the measures, themselves.
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Simply enter the number of the first measure to be removed into the "From measure:" field and the number of the last measure to be removed in the "To measure:" field. A tablature must contain at least one measure.
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Selecting {Edit}{Copy Measures...} will present you with the dialog shown here at the left. Enter the range of measures you wish to copy and at which point you wish to paste them.
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Using the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl]+[Insert] without first marking a block copies only the
measure containing the cursor but does have the effect of marking the measure as a block and copying it to the clipboard in a single operation. If a block has been defined the function will, of course, copy the entire block.
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| The three icons in the upper right_hand corner determine where and how the copied measures will be inserted: Selecting:
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| · | the icon on the left moves the copied measures to the position immediately after the measure indicated in "To measure:". In the example above, measure 10 will be automatically renumbered as measure 7 (since 3 measures preceding it were removed) and the copied measures become measures 8 to 10.
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| · | the icon in the middle copies the selected measures to the position immediately before the measure indicated in "To measure:", creating three new measures to accommodate them. Thus, in the example, the former measure 10 now becomes measure 13 while the copied measures are applied to measures 10 to 12.
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| · | the icon on the right copies the selected measures directly to the measure indicated in "To measure:", replacing the contents of a number of measures equivalent to the number of measures copied. In this case, a copy of measures 2 to 4 will replace the contents of measures 10 to 12.
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| TablEdit allows you to include a maximum of 255 different text items, 255 characters (maximum) each in length to your tablatures. These could, for example, include:
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| To insert a text, place the cursor at the desired location in the tablature and select {Edit}{Text Manager...} or use the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl]+[T].
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| The Chord Manager is one of the most powerful features in TablEdit. It lets you create or edit Custom Chord diagrams for inclusion in your tablatures, find particular chord shapes according to the notes they contain and much more.
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| This item leads to a sub-menu containing a list of items which can be inserted into your tablatures to allow detailed control over both their appearance and the way they sound when played back.
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| This option brings up one of several, different dialogs, depending on what element of the tablature is currently highlighted. These allow the display attributes of the selected elements:
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| · | The vertical position or height of most elements except notes
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| · | The horizontal position of musical symbols and fingering markers
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| · | The font used for texts and tablature numbers
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| · | The "stabilo" attribute for notes
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| · | This function also allows you to select a background color for a particular note in order to emphasize it. Just activate the check box marked "Stabilo" then click on the colored square and select your color from the color palette.
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| · | The "centered" attribute for texts
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| For the activation or de-activation of these controls, the dialog box is referenced to the first element of the current selection (block). For elements other than musical notes, the vertical (and, eventually, horizontal) position of the element is displayed in the status bar.
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| In order, for example, to adjust the vertical position of all chord diagrams, simply select the anchor of the first diagram and then extend the selection in order to include the markers for all of the diagrams you want to modify. Then select {Edit}{Format} and enter a new value for the vertical position.
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| The "Format" dialog is non-modal. This means that you can continue to edit the tablature while the dialog is open. The controls it contains reflect the contents of the currently selected items.
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