Export plain text allows you to generate a text-based tab diagram from your QuickTabs tab. It includes a live preview and several customization options.
These options allow you to customize which document properties are included at the beginning of the tab.
Export plain text offers two styles of tab diagram: QuickTabs style
and Standard spaced
. QuickTabs style
was created to offer a way to include note lengths in the diagram. By not including an empty spacing step between each eighth note as is traditional, QuickTabs can use the >
character to represent that a note should be sustained for a certain length of time. In QuickTabs style
, double-digit fret numbers are handled by making only that step 2 characters with a whitespace character on the lines that are not 2-digits. Standard spaced
is the traditional way of writing tabs where every step gets 2 characters no matter its content, and where not length notation is not supported.
I honestly think that standard spaced looks better, but QuickTabs style works better.
Wrapping can be enabled or disabled. If it is disabled, the entire staff will be written on one row (still a line for each string of course). If enabled, the staff will break every desired number of measures.