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- CALLIOPE NEWS 11 April 1995
-
- A new release (3981) of the Calliope music notation editor for m68k
- and i386 architectures running NeXTStep is available free of charge
- from
-
- ‹ftp://ftp.CL.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/
-
- Calliope is a full-featured music notation editor having fast
- graphic input and editing, automatic formatting, justification and
- pagination, professional quality output, and General-MIDI input and
- playback. It has been used for several major music publishing
- projects, and has special provision for early music. Details are
- available from ‹http://www.CL.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/calliope.html which
- also shows short music examples (at screen resolution).
-
- You must install the Sonata font (an Adobe font available for
- NeXTStep from various vendors) and the Calliope font (available from
- the distribution directory) for the program to work and for the
- manual to be understandable.
-
- There is no on-line help, but there is a slightly out of date
- 80-page tutorial manual on the distribution directory as well as
- some example music documents to illustrate techniques of use.
-
- Release 3981 improves the previous release (3970) in the following ways:
-
- 1. Corrected the finding of the hyphen-margin when small clefs are
- used at the beginning of a staff.
-
- 2. Fixed a bug in pasting images.
-
- 3. Fixed a bar line bug introduced in Release 3918.
-
- 4. Running headers and footers now display at 'true' font size
- regardless of document's rastral size. NOTICE: this may require
- changes to previous documents.
-
- 5. Colours are implemented. See the Color aspect of the
- Info->Preferences... panel. Use the Tools->Colors... panel in the
- usual NeXTStep manner.
-
- 6. Double-clicking an object or marker raises the inspector.
-
- 7. Improved graphic behaviour of runner variables.
-
- 8. Command-r applied to a versed object cycles the hypen or
- extender through two additional possibilities used in repeat bars.
-
- 9. Fixed a bug causing crashes when non-staff objects were
- selected when the Parts Inspector was open.
-
- 10. The rule concerning appearance of bar numbers at ends of
- staves has been corrected.
-
- 11. New features for overriding "5's"-type bar numbers on an
- individual basis (see Barline Inspector).
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
- Work In Progress:
-
- 1. Parts extraction "sort of works" in well-behaved situations.
- In the system inspector, select one or more staves and press the
- EXTRACT button. A new document will be created containing the
- selected staves. In the Parts inspector, select one or more parts
- and press the Extract button. A new document will be created
- containing the staves on which the selected parts appear. There are
- numerous situations where extractions are incorrect. Please don't
- tell me about bugs you find in this until I release extraction
- officially.
-
- 2. G-MIDI support on Intel. I am hoping very soon to be able to
- recommend a configuration of sound card and driver for NeXTStep
- sound and MIDI output which should provide a worry-free system for
- those who do not wish to use the more elaborate configurations
- recommended by CCRMA.
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
- William Clocksin
- Computer Laboratory
- University of Cambridge
- wfc@CL.cam.ac.uk
-