Thanks Kaleea.

HARMONY was not originally intended for the experienced musician, and not is it intended to provide all features necessary for a full professional standard score - that would be more than a life's work for me in just my spare time. It was originally intended to assist people in adding chords to simple tunes, and mainly aimed at the 'folk' audience.

It is for this audience that I am adding tablature. I think that what I have done so far follows most of what you suggest, though the uniform bar spacing is difficult to implement. Beaming is done automatically by the program - getting it right was REALLY tricky for combinations of different note durations (8th, 16th, 32nd). However, there is an option to undo it.

Have you had a look at the output? You don't need to run the program, there are several samples on my web site. They pop up as you move the mouse over the link on the left. There is a randomising routine, so that different ones pop up each time. There is no exampe of the tablature there yet, though.

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I am adding to the program all the time. I needed to add on-screen editing and tune playback in order to support the core functions, and it has just grown from there. I still need to add to the tablature the facility to show symbols for slides, bends etc. These also have to be allowed for in the file format, so that you can save them with the tune.

I also wanted HARMONY to be more of a 'music processor' than just a 'score typewriter', so I added transpose, and also Make Round, Reel to Hornpipe converter, and generation of random tunes. (And even reverse the tune to show and play it backwards).