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TablEdit Users Say:
"I have found TablEdit to be invaluable to the pursuit and enjoyment of music. I have been a user for over a year and it has outperformed all my expectations. I use the program for 5 string banjo, mandolin, and guitar tablatures and find it robust in all the features it offers. Although I have rarely needed technical support, when I have, help came within a few hours rather than days as with some software products."
Richard Roberts - Texas, USA
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TablEdit Manual 2.65
File Menu
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When the dialog opens, the six combo boxes and the item "Drum Tablature" are greyed out (inactive). Simply clicking on [OK] without selecting anything will create a empty tablature grid to which are assigned the attributes of the first instrument of the preceding window. Thus, if the already open tablature was set up for a 6-string guitar (steel) the empty grid will be set up for the same instrument. This is the same result achieve by using the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl]+[N] without going via the menu.
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This is the menu from which you control file, printout and import/export operations. It also gives access to the TablEdit "Languages" options and the Tablature Manager Four of the items it contains lead to further sub-menus. Note that the "hotkey", if there is one, for each function is displayed to the right of the menu selection.
New
This function creates a new window containing an empty tablature grid, 24 measures in length. There are two, distinct ways of creating such a tablature.
Simply clicking on "New" will call up the dialog illustrated below. This dialog provides you with an opportunity to create multiple instrument modules from the outset.
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| Clicking on any of the check boxes along the left side of the dialog will activate that, particular combo box. This, then, allows the creation of up to six instrument modules plus, optionally, one "Drum Tablature" module. Once activated, clicking on the small, arrow-shaped icons at the right-hand end of the text field opens the combo box list which contains a list of all the standard instrument configurations built into TablEdit. The configuration names should not be confused with MIDI voices/instruments. These can be set up separately in the MIDI Options dialog.
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| This allows the opening of a previously created tablature (*.tef, .tab) or Chord Catalog (*.cat) file. Do not attempt to open a file with the *.tab extension which hasn't been created using an earlier version of TablEdit. In principle, TablEdit should detect the problem and display the message: "Cannot open: (file name)". If you wish to open an ASCII tablature file (these also use a *.TAB extender) you must use the "Import ASCII " feature. To open a MusicXML file (http://www.musicxml.org/), simply select the *.xml type from the Open dialog.
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| By default, the file is opened in the active window and replaces the tablature that previously occupied it. The "Open" dialog does, however, contain an option labelled "New window" which allows you to keep the original window open. You can also open multiple tablatures in a single operation by keeping [Ctrl] held down while selecting the files to be opened in the file selector.
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| The original window will, initially, be hidden behind the new one. To view both (or all, within reason) files at the same time, youll have to select an appropriate display type from the "Window" menu.
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| TablEdit also allows files created by Buckett o'Tab - Tabestry or TabRite to be opened. In order to open these files, simply select the appropriate extension in the "File type" combo box. TablEdit is capable of importing all the important elements of these files: nuber of strings, tuning, notes and special effects. TablEdit is also capable of reading files in the MusicXML format, all you have to do is select the .xml extension in the "File type" combo box.
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| You can also double-click on the *tef file of your choice directly in Windows Explorer. This will launch TablEdit with the chosen file as its initial selection. The installer automatically associates *.tef files with TablEdit but you can also configure manually the TEF File type association by following this procedure.
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| This is a list of the last few tablatures opened by TablEdit. This list contains the last eight tablatures opened. Clicking on the word "More..." at the bottom of the list will open the Tablature Manager and bring up a much larger list. Both lists include the complete search path to the tablatures they contain. Clicking on any of the names in the list will load the requested tablature. If the currently open tablature has been modified without being saved, you will be asked if you wish to do so before the new tablature is opened.
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| Note that if you keep [Ctrl] held down when selecting a file from this list it will be opened in a new window without asking whether you want to save the previously open tablature.
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| The last feature of this section of the menu is a list of the last three folders from which tablatures were opened. Clicking on any of the items in this list automatically opens the "Open" file finder on the indicated folder so that you can select a tablature file. Keeping [Ctrl] held down when selecting one of these folders opens the "Save as..." dialog.
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| This sub-menu can also be accessed from the tool bar by holding the left mouse button held down while clicking on the "Open" icon.
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| This saves any changes you've made to the open tablature. If you attempt to exit the program or load another tablature without first having saved such changes, you will be asked if you wish to do so before the requested operation is carried out.
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| By selecting the correct format from the "File type" combo box, you can also save the tablature as a MusicXML file.
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| If you keep [Ctrl]+[Shift] held down when saving your *.tef file, a dialog box will appear offering you the option of protecting it against subsequent saving and/or writing and/or printing by others. If you select one or more of these options, make sure to make a note of the exact position of the cursor in the tablature (measure, string and horizontal placement) since this will have to be duplicated exactly when you, for example, wish to save changes made to a write protected tablature. Please note that this feature is available only when selecting {File}{Save} and is not (for obvious reasons) made available when you save your file using [Ctrl]+[S].
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| TablEdit includes an automatic backup feature. As soon as you perform an editing action more than ten minutes after having opened or saved a *.tef file, it is automatically saved as temp.tef in your "My Documents" folder. If the program should, for any reason, terminate abnormally, this file is automatically loaded when you next start TablEdit.
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| Allows you to save the current tablature under a new name. The new file can be saved in the location of your choice. The original file is not deleted but it will be replaced by the new file in the working window.
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| Allows you to print out the tablature in the active window using the current printing options. The standard Windows "Print" dialog allows you to select the pages to be printed out. Clicking on [OK] starts the printout process.
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| This opens the "Print preview" panel.
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| This opens the TablEdit "Tablature Manager". This serves, among other things, as the "Juke box" function where you can select multiple tablature files (from within a single directory) for playback, create and load play lists, etc.
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| This item allows you to import several types of files into TablEdit for further editing.
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| This item allows you to export tablature files created with TablEdit in several, different file formats for use in other programs or for distributing your work in MIDI format.
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| This opens the Options dialog so that you can customize the settings used by the program to suit your own needs and tastes.
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| This selection leads to a sub-menu containing a list of the languages supported internally by TablEdit. There are currently four languages supported: English, French, German and Spanish. The last item in the sub-menu, labeled "Other language...", opens the file selector (Explorer) so that you can select one of the user-created files for languages not supported internally. Languages currently available in this manner are: Bulgarian, Chinese Big5, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak and Swedish. The files to select have a *.str extension. Selecting any of the built-in languages or one of the external language files will convert all of TablEdit's menus and dialogs into that language. The latest language files are available on www.tabledit.com.
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| When you quit TablEdit, you may encounter a dialog asking you if you wish to save any unsaved changes made to the various open files. In addition, all program options and parameters are automatically saved in the TABLED32.INI file located in your Windows folder and in your Windows registry.
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| It should be noted that the majority problems that may occur with TablEdit are related to changes made to the configuration. In this case, we recommend that you re-launch TablEdit while keeping [Shift] held down. This will restore the default parameters.
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