NAME
Gnometab - WYSIWYG guitar tablature editor for GNOME2
SYNOPSIS
gnometab [FILE]
DESCRIPTION
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.
USAGE
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.
SEE ALSO
More information is available on the Gnometab website:
http://www.solutionm.com/gnometab/gnometab.html
AUTHORS
William Guelker <wguelker@solutiom.com>.
This manual page was contributed by
Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>.
2002 Nov 07 gnometab(1)