I have now managed to incorporate Guitar tab into HARMONY (Build 3.4.1 Not yet released).

I have placed an example (picture) of what it produces on my web site www.greenhedges.com

You have to move the mouse over the navigation links, and part of a score display will pop up.

Unfortunately, it is part of a random display, so you might have to move the mouse a few times before seeing the right picture, which is KEMP's JIG.

Please can you all look and see if the tablature is suitable for your needs. Any suggestions for improvement will be considered.

The rules so far are:

1. Tab can be displayed for any file, wherever it is loaded from (abc, MIDI, native format)

2. All voices shown on the score displayed will be included - in the example, there are 4 (i.e. the maximum of concurrent notes)

3. To restrict the tab to the melody, you just have to select melody only on the View menu. You can also display the tab for any combination of selected voices.

4. Tab can be shown for mandolin or guitar (Standard or one open tuning so far)

5. The program will automatically assign each note to the first (lowest) string on which it can be played. You can override this, and the overrides will be saved with the file.

6. Notes which cannot be played on the instrument will be shown as x.
So will notes which cannot be played on the manually assigned string.

7. The Tablature is not related to the MIDI instrument chosen for playback. This would not be possible to implement, because MIDI standard instruments do not contain some (e.g. Mandolin).
So you have to set them manually.

8. The accompaniment generation feature is not yet linked to Tablature instrument, so it currently generates notes which are not playable. This will be fixed later if possible.