A tool for making your own simple tabs.

Running

Run keys.php.

Instructions

Ever seen a guitar tab before? It's just numbers on lines showing which frets to press on each string. This is a tool for entering and saving your own!

Navigate with the arrow keys, add to your tab by typing in numbers. Entering hammer/slide/bend mode, then pressing a number, adds that modifier.

'^' represents hammer ons, or pull-offs '/' or '\' represent slides still figuring out the best character for bend

Tuning, shown at the start of the tab to the left of the |'s, is meant to be set in scientific notation. [A-G][#b]?[1-8]

Control

key	desc
0-9	enter values
x	add an 'X' (indicates not to play)
i	inserts a blank column at current cursor location
v	inserts/deletes a vertical column at current cursor location
Delete	clears the selected value, or column if there is no value
Spacebar	clears the selected value.
modifiers
h	Hammer on mode
s	Slide mode
b	Bend mode
navigation
←↑→↓	arrow keys navigate the cursor
shift + ← or shift + →	skip the cursor in that direction
Home	move cursor to start of measure
End	move cursor to end of tab
others
t	Set tuning on active string
T	Set standard tuning (4 string E1 A1 D2 G2), (6 string E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4)
c	Clear your work
l	Load a file
p	Write to out.txt
z	Debug dump (to screen)
d	Debug dump (to file)
q	Quit

Config

In include/config.inc, there are several configurable parameters you may want to change.