RISC User 11:3
January/February 1998
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A Pair of MIDI Sequencers Eddie Edwards plays Oregan's MIDIWorks and Liquid Silicon's MelIDI against each other |
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Reading Between the Lines Neurotron Software's Optical Manuscript is the world's most advanced musical OCR package; see how well it performs |
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Sibelius' Final Opus We review the last version of Sibelius 7 to appear before its rebirth as Sibelius VMP |
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Playing Softly If you want to play MIDI but can't afford the hardware, ESP's software-only synthesiser provides an ideal budget solution |
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Net Topics In the first of two articles, Joseph Heenan explains what goes on under the bonnet of your Internet software |
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Brew Your Own Java Peter Naulls explains how to get Acorn's Java working, and continues his explanation of object-orientation |
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Education Our experts take a look back over the educational highlights of 1997 |
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Working on the Image Nobilangelo Ceramalus presents some useful hints on manipulating graphics for use in a colour gatefold brochure |
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Pocket Book OPL The final instalment of our Pocket Book programming series covers status windows and error handling |
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DTP Workshop Introducing contrast to pages in order to make body text and headings easier to read |
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How To Make Light of HTML Darren Grant takes a first look at how to include graphics on your Web pages |
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Netline We evaluate Acorn's rapidly-evolving Web browser |
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Centenary Competition Solution The solution to the Cumana EZFlyer competition in our 100th issue |
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Oracle Open World Nobilangelo Ceramalus reports back with mixed feelings from Oracle's latest NC show in Australia |
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Replicating ArtWorks We evaluate yet another useful batch of ArtWorks plug-ins from Martin Würthner |
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JazZip Tools Tony Howat evaluates a set of Jaz and Zip drive utilities from Desktop Projects |
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Puzzle Plus solution for puzzle 11:2 |
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Flat Plan Overall layout of pages for this issue of the magazine |
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Progress sheet A list of articles, their authors and the number of pages they occupy |
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Production sheet RISC User production sheet template for this issue |
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Cover captions Captions suggested for use on the front cover of this issue |
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Bill Gates gets the Pieman treatment An extremely amusing MPEG video of Bill Gates being slapped in the face with a cream pie, as featured in this issue's News pages |
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Bill Gates gets the Pieman treatment (2) Another video clip, this time in QuickTime format. Although not as good as the MPEG clip overall, this clip contains a frame which is similar to the image printed in the magazine's News pages |
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Londonderry Air An arrangement of the Londonderry Air by Richard Hallas, typeset using Sibelius 7 and presented here as a Draw file |
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Unused editorial column An editorial column which was discarded in favour of the published version |