Tux-Guitar is a complete composition tool for guitarists that can be used to create tablature from ordinary notation.

As well as recording and printing music, Tux-Guitar can be used as a practice tool as it can scroll automatically.

There is a fretboard view for working out the different notes used in a chord. Chords can also be constructed with the chord tool. This is very powerful and something useful to have in the background during practice both for finding obscure chords and new fingerings for common chords.

Other guitar specific effects such as bending strings and vibrato are also supported.

Files saved in the gp3 and gp4 formats as created by the Guitar Pro software from Arobas Music can be used. Tux-Guitar can save to those formats.

Tux-Guitar is written in Java and there are versions available for Mac and Linux as well as Windows.

Version 1.2 fixed several bugs and, more importantly, now comes with a help file. It's a fairly self explanatory program but it's still good to have a guide. There is better integration with Lilypond and Fluidsynth and a new Jack plugin.