Gnometab - WYSIWYG guitar tablature editor for GNOME2

gnometab [FILE]

Gnometab is a GNOME2 free-style guitar tablature editor with printing capabilities. Gnometab's features include copying and pasting of tablature passages, a chord library (which the user must fill with chords), professional-looking rhythm notation (not perfect yet), the ability to create a variety of tablature symbols specific to the guitar -- bends, slurs (hammer-ons, pull-offs, etc.), etc. -- and, of course, clean-looking printed output, given any postscript-compatible printer. Gnometab does not attempt to be "smart", i.e., it does not know how many beats are in a measure, nor does it know an E chord from an Am chord. Instead, the emphasis has been on the appearance of the output.

Choose a tool from the tool bar, and click on the staff where you want that object to be created. Some objects can be grabbed and moved on the staff; grab these objects with the left mouse button. Right-clicking an object selects it and provides a menu for cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting. To select an entire passage of tablature, press down the left mouse button over the blank spot between the staffs, and drag the rectangle which appears until it encompasses the passage in question. When you release the mouse button, the items inside the rectangle are selected, and the popup menu appears. Choose the desired action from the menu. If you choose Cut or Copy, you can move the mouse to the target location, right-click, and select Paste. To use the chord library, you must make some chords. Use the chord builder on the toolbar by selecting it as the current tool, and then clicking on the staff where you wish to create a chord. The chord builder should appear. The chord builder should work the same way as the regular tablature, but it doesn't. Only two tools are available (text and bars), and right-clicking on chord builder objects does nothing (see the file TODO). To delete a mistake, click the object with the middle mouse button. Bars in the chord builder can be grabbed (left mouse button) and moved. To save a chord in the chord library, click the "Save" button in the builder before you click "Create". This adds the new chord to your chord library. To select a chord from the library, you can use the chord library toggle on the toolbar (far right) to show the chord library in the right pane. Click on the desired chord in the library; it should appear highlighted. Then click on the staff where you wish to create the chord. The chord then appears in the chord builder, and can be edited before it is created on the tablature.

More information is available on the Gnometab website:

http://www.solutionm.com/gnometab/gnometab.html

William Guelker <wguelker@solutiom.com>. This manual page was contributed by

Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>.