Display Options
The "Display" tab allows you to define the display of chord diagrams, note stems, endings, repeats, etc. in your tablatures. The settings made here affect both the on-screen appearance and your printouts.
Auto Chord Diagrams
The chord positions used in an arrangement are directly related to the playability of the piece. Certain licks may require the use of specific, often unorthodox, chord shapes. TEFview analyzes the fingerings in the tablature and attempts to recognize the chord positions it finds. If it succeeds, it automatically displays a chord diagram above the location concerned. TEFview then attempts to identify the chord and, if successful, displays its name underneath the diagram. This may help you to rapidly determine the most convenient left hand fingering to use.
If you're not satisfied with the result, you can disable the option. In this case, automatic chord diagrams will neither be displayed on the screen nor included on your printouts.
Reading Guides
This option controls whether the "reading guides" deduced from the Reading List are displayed or not. It has no effect on actual MIDI playback which will follow the entries of the Reading List in either case.
Automatic Rests
This option allows the display of the rests automatically deduced by TEFview from the position and duration of the notes in each measure in the notation. These automatic rests will also be printed out in both the notation and the tablature if the "Rests in Tablature" option in the Printing options dialog is selected.
The "X2" option allows the management of automatic rests for two voices.
Note stems
Controls the direction used for note stems in the tablature.
Top down
Causes all stems to be displayed downwards from the numbers in the tablature
Bottom up
Causes all stems to be displayed upwards from the numbers in the tablature
As in Notation
Causes the note stems in the tablature to be displayed with the same orientation as those in the stave. Thus, bass note stems will be displayed downwards and treble note stems will be displayed upwards. In this case, the letters indicating hammer-ons and pull-offs will not be displayed in the tablature. It will be left up to the reader to "deduce" the correct effect from the direction of play.
The "Height" value allows to reduce the length of the stems in the tablature.
Note: In tablature, whole notes have no stem at all and half notes have an half stem. Pressing [
]+[Y] will cause all notes in the tablature to be associated with a stem, even half and whole notes.
Chord Diagrams
Controls how custom chord diagrams are displayed and their placement on printouts. Please note that Custom Chord diagrams will not be included in printouts unless this item is selected!
If "Into the tablature" is selected, custom chord diagrams will be displayed in full above their point of insertion in the tablature both on-screen and on printouts.
If, on the other hand, "Chord Summary" is selected, only the chord name will be displayed above the insertion point in the tablature. The chord diagrams, themselves, will not be included anywhere within the on-screen display and will be included as a group, on the first page, before the tablature on printouts.
The orientation of the diagrams can be selected. Although displayed vertically by default, they can also be displayed horizontally.
Chord as Text Only
This and the previous option are mutually exclusive. It allows you to display only the name (e.g. "C Maj") of the chord or its description in the format "x32010" (for the C Major chord).
Note: If the current instrument is an accordion, "Chord diagrams" and "Chord as Text Only" are replaced respectively by "Tablature with border" and "Hide Basses and Chords". The first option asks TEFview to display the tablature with borders and the second one not to display in the notation stave the notes corresponding to the basses and left hand chords. These notes are anyway never printed in notation.
Effects in Notation
This allows the display, in the stave, of connecting marks (ties) between notes to which certain special effects (ringing notes, bends, etc.) have been applied.