Tablatures

* Added an option to automatically insert barlines.
* Floating texts can be removed by dragging them out of the score.
* Pressing the alt key while starting to move a floating text will clone it.
* Pressing the shift key while moving a floating text will keep it aligned to its original position.
* Tuning dictionary: updated the tunings for banjos.
* Print has been tweaked to exploit the full printable area.
* Added keyboard shortcuts to toggle pick strokes down/up (k/K).

* Chord Dictionary: the panel can be resized.
* It's possible to click on the zoom value to edit it, for those who don't always like to use the slider.
* When editing a bend, "Release (gradual)" couldn't be set correctly. Fixed.
* Added a keyboard shortcut to toggle chord names (c).

Added support to read and save Unicode strings. This means that now you can use any character set you want (Japanese, Korean, Greek, etc…) and your texts won't be mangled upon saving.

Added some extra tunings (e.g. Violin) in the Choose Tuning list.

Guitar tunings will be shown as reference in the tablature header.

Remember the last used Display Mode when opening a new window.

Standard notation: improved rendering of tie arcs so that they never overlap.

Improved rendering of tablature symbols (e.g. picking stroke directions) when using a bigger-than-usual tablature font size.

* Fixed a crash occurring when changing the Tablature Staff/Chord Names properties on GuitarPro files.
* Make sure that the last remaining guitar in a score cannot be removed.

Guitar In symbols could disappear when undoing a change to a system. Fixed.

Improved stability when editing the tablature while playback is in progress.

Implemented a workaround for a Mac OS X/Xcode bug that caused some crashes while saving certain tablatures.

Added option to change the size of chord names.

Improved rendering in tablature-only display to prevent chord names to overlap with the first notation line.

MIDI playback: the tempo slider can be used to speed the song up too (up to 2x faster than the tempo set in the document).

Standard notation: extra notation lines could be drawn with an huge length, thus causing excessive slowdown, when a system contained many positions. Fixed.

Chord Dictionary: disable the "Add to Score" button when no document is open.

Disabled autosave on GuitarPro documents, to avoid problems. It's a good practice to convert GP docs to PowerTab before starting to edit them, anyway.

* Preferences: added an option to save documents automatically every X minutes. Autosaved documents will appear as "name (Autosaved).ptb" in the same directory of the original document, or in "~/Library/Autosave Information" for new, never saved before documents. In case Tablatures crashes, autosaved documents will automatically be reopened.
* Editing the tablature or performing undo/redo while playback was looping over a section could result in a crash. Fixed.
* Fixed a crash that occurred trying to add a system above the first one, when the first one didn't have any tempo markers.

This version improves stability in a couple of situations.

Fixed a crash that occurred with scores containing a Guitar In symbol for a non-defined guitar.

This release fixes a crash that would happen trying to undo a change in a system containing dynamics.

# Mac OS X 10.4 is the new minimum requirement.
# Removed some code needed to work around some OS X 10.3 bugs.
# Expanded the Chord Dictionary with many voicings missing an optional note (e.g. 7th without 5th).
# Save as... will properly change file type to .ptb when used with Guitar Pro documents.

Apart from fixing a MIDI playback issue, it implements a feature that's been requested by several users: the option to change the tablature font size.

This version fixes some rendering problems in standard notation and rhythm slash.

* Added floating texts: you can place a text box anywhere you want, simply drag'n'drop the floating text from the Musical Symbols Panel and edit it to your heart's desire.
* Standard notation: consecutive octave offset symbols (e.g. "8va") will be grouped together.
* The beaming algorithm has been improved.

* Copy and Paste support has been completely rewritten in order to overcome the shortcomings of the first, simple implementation.
* When deleting a selection, everything inside it will be removed (chord texts, directions, etc...). In the previous version, only notes and barlines were deleted, but that wasn't so intuitive or useful.

Added a zoom slider at the bottom of the window.

The line spacing for the tablature staff can be adjusted (see the menu "Edit" -> "Tablature Staff Properties...").

MIDI playback: when a repeat end bar line is encountered, its repeat count value is ignored if there are alternate endings in the bar. This behaviour is similar to that of PowerTabEditor.

MIDI playback: added an option to start with a metronome intro ("MIDI" -> "Metronome Intro").

* Added an option to configure the page footer (used when printing).
* Added an option to reopen the last used document at start up.