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This tab of the "Preferences" dialog controls the general appearance of your tablature on your monitor screen.
This portion of the dialog allows you to choose your general display mode (not to be confused with View mode, the scale width of the measures).
Tablature / Notation
These options determine whether TablEdit will display the Tablature and/or the notation of the modules.
Multitrack
If this option is not selected, TablEdit displays the tablature and/or the notation of the active module only on multiple lines, using the entire height of the TablEdit screen.
If the Multitrack option is selected, TablEdit will display the contents of all modules contained within the tablature in stacked lines. Each module occupies one line. In order to select a module, simply click on it or move the cursor to the desired module.
By default, all the modules share the same Tablature/Notation screen mode. You can, however, specify a different screen mode for a given module in the Multitrack tab. The specified screen mode will remain unchanged when changing the general screen mode of the tablature unless you make the change from within the module concerned.
The small button marked "m" found in the bottom, right-hand corner of the main TablEdit window allows you to cycle conveniently through the various modes (Notation, Tablature, Notation + Tablature). Keeping [Shift] held down when clicking on the button will allow you to enter Multitrack mode. In Multitrack mode, the button is labelled as "M".
Tablature Presentation
TablEdit allows you to have the numbers of the tablature centered on the horizontal grid lines (--0--3--) or to offset them vertically so that they appear above the grid lines ( _0_3_ ). Should you choose to use this second option, a second click on the "radio" button (or on the text, itself) will bring up a small sub-dialog allowing you to adjust the positive or negative offset of the numbers.
You can also choose to have the tablature displayed in a form where the usual numbers are replaced by letters of the alphabet. In this case, "a" replaces "0", "b" replaces "1", etc. The letter "j" is skipped.
These conventions have their origins in the earliest form of tablature (siffra or chiffra) as a notational system.
Vertical spacings
Between Systems Sets the vertical spacing, expressed in millimeters, between rows both on-screen and on printouts. It has no on-screen effect when both Notation and Tablature are selected under Mode (see above) as this display is completely horizontal.
Between Notation
and Tablature Sets the vertical spacing, expressed in millimeters, between the standard notation and the tablature both on-screen and on printouts. This has no effect unless both of these elements are selected. This distance can also be set using the mouse by "dragging" the small, colored square located above the measure at the left-hand end of the tablature.
Between
Tablature Lines This sets the vertical separation, expressed in pixels, between the lines of the tablature grid. Care must be taken to select a font of an appropriate size to avoid collisions both on-screen and on printouts.