Music Publisher 6 History List Version list 6.01a 6.1.1.1 23 Apr 06 First release 6.1.1.3 26 Apr 06 Problem with Neaten fixed 6.1.1.4 28 Apr 06 Save part of screen as picture: filename was added with file extension 6.1.1.5 01 May 06 X button Play form system menu removed. 6.1.1.6 03 May 06 Problems with dot positions on dotted notes in chords resolved Problems after pressing Largest on Stave Size dialog 6.1.1.7 05 May 06 Better behaviour if scan folder not exist 6.01b 6.1.2.1 08 May 06 Bug fixes: Some chords did not transpose even when marked Sometimes program freezes when up or down pressed to change note octave Could freeze after a scan where notes were very close together Piano, Hymn, OrganPed templates contained GHB flag which encumbers note lengths 6.1.2.2 13 May 06 Fixup note alignment did not on beamed notes Automatic post-scanning tidy up improved 6.1.2.3 15 May 06 Bug: Tempo marks on staves other than top were not obeyed correctly Bug: page number and bar number could collide: top stave now placed slightly lower on repaginate Auto now automatically selected on Play dialog if there is a tempo mark on the score 6.1.2.4 16 May 06 New system at top of new page was too high. 6.1.2.5 19 May 06 Ditto on new system with no template chosen. 6.1.2.6 22 May 06 Bugs: incorrectly showed bars on Tools>Check Bar Lenth ctrl+drag barline spaced notes very badly dotted tempo mark did not play correct speed 6.1.2.7 23 May 06 Bugs: footer and header text would not edit via Properties abc format: if L: preceded M: then it was ignored erase objects printed much too large transpose gave error on empty bar found New: graphics pages exported are now numbered 001,002 etc 6.01c 6.1.3.1 26 May 06 New: automatic melismas are catered for in the text attributes form using _ at the end of the text 6.1.3.2 30 May 06 Bug: Playback of "this system" did not take account of tempo changes later than the beginning. 6.1.3.3 1 Jun 06 Bug: making triplets which included rests could make the triplet bracket at strange place 6.1.3.4 14 Jun 06 Measures taken to avoid out of resources when making picture file under W98/95/ME Bug: staves over stave number 100 could show anchors on curves at times Bug: "Tools>Tidy tools" commands now take account of multi bar rests Bug: wavy line did not draw correctly 6.1.3.5 27 Jun 06 Bug: would not run from folders the user had no rights to Bug: Better justifying 6.1.3.6 27 Jun 06 BIF: Some end bars were drawn too far to the right - old MP5 scores were drawn badly 6.01d 6.1.4.1 4 Jul 06 New feature: Recognised tempo marks on stave 1 (eg "Allegro") now give an actual tempo value for playback New feature: Support for more than 2 monitors (Ctrl+Shift+Home transfers) BUG: bar check on empty stave gave access violation BUG: System Wizard called from Templates screen forgot some stave attributes 6.1.4.2 17 Jul 06 New feature: "Re-attach to next/previous line" on popup menus of suitable objects New feature: notes, clefs, time sigs, key sigs can also now be Invisible (hover and press Y) New feature: @1 @2 @3 @L are for odd pages, even pages, odd-after-2 and Last page in Header/Footer Bug fix: bar checks gave false positive at times 6.1.4.3 26 Jul 06 Bug fix: press G could cause click when editing note 6.01e 6.1.5.1 9 Aug 06 Volume responds to dynamic marks ppp to fff. (Not hairpins yet - but see 6.02a) Tools>Play Again added (shift+F2) Notes have new optional attribute of "legato" (Note attribute form>Accents) to give better playback of legato sections Ctrl+drag of note now drags rests too, and also works to drag clef, timesigs, keysigs in the system 6.1.5.2 15 Aug 06 Optimising of stems now works more reliably: please report any apparent mistakes it makes. New note right-click popup action: Reverse stem directions works for all notes in chords and beamed sets Shift+drag of text now restored as in MP5: text will remain at same horizontal position 6.1.5.3 18 Aug 06 Bug fix: merge was broken in the release of 6.1.5.2 - now OK 6.1.5.4 21 Aug 06 Bug fix: sometimes problem with Move First Bar Up: bad layout, notes missing 6.02a 6.2.1.1 29 Aug 06 New feature: Hairpins can have end volume values, and volume obeys dynamic marks (ff etc) and hairpins. Bug fix: Right-click on header or footer text caused access violation Note Length increment increased from 9 to 99 maximum value 6.2.1.2 1 Sep 06 BIF: spurious errors in bar checking BIF: Tempo playback when not starting at the beginning would be wrong if previous tempo was dotted BIF: After reflow, page tabs in lower left could be wrong 6.2.1.3 6 Sep 06 BUG: some long playbacks could stop early 6.2.1.4 13 Sep 06 BUG: Scores with hairpins on braced staves could cause crash if played 6.2.1.5 15 Sep 06 BUG: Sometimes saving a file could make non-global lines global. 6.02b 6.2.2.1 26 Sep 06 New: "Indelible" special attribute for objects to enable them to show through Erase shapes BIF: Abort of Add> menus could leave objects on stave BIF: Semibreve/Minim unisons not offset BIF: Explain button not work on Tempo form BIF: Enter worked like Ctrl+M when centralising existing text: only Ctrl+M works now 6.02c 6.2.3.1 28 Sep 06 New feature: Square braces added to system construction BUG: erase objects did not print properly after 6.02b 6.2.3.2 29 Sep 06 BIF: Sometimes reflow refused to work because of "objects on wrong stave" 6.2.3.3 6 Oct 06 New: supports version 2.68 of MP Scan 2 6.2.3.4 9 Oct 06 BIF: Ties better placed when 1st note is dotted Tidying up of font allocations, 2 customers report a problem with font changes reverting after save 6.2.3.5 11 Oct 06 BIF: now Add>System makes room for replicatable text at the left if necessary 6.2.3.6 11 Oct 06 BUG: Problems in transposing "this stave in every system" when unequal numbers of staves in each system 6.2.3.7 16 Oct 06 New: curve points can be aligned with shift+click BIF: Tidy>Insert bar rest - used to put rest in anacrusis bar BUG: Problems with reflow on zero length curves Corrections to US version of the tutorial BUG: After saving ties which are converted to curves, the reload showed the original tie as well as the curve 6.02d 6.2.4.1 20 Oct 06 New: better drawing of ties, including while editing first tied note BIF: Changing of ties and slurs by Block+Alter Attributes behaves better 6.2.4.2 21 Oct 06 Some tweaks to ties US tutorial tweaks 6.2.4.3 23 Oct 06 New Extended standard paper sizes on Page Size menu: inludes B4 and B5 6.2.4.4 26 Oct 06 BUG Files created with version 5.0x can now be merged OK (v5.1x and v6 files were always OK) BUG Undo of Stave>Insert stave gave grey screen. (2nd undo brought it back actually) Cosmetic: Tidy Tools tab order improved 6.2.4.5 27 Oct 06 BUG Curves which were written in non left-right order could cause problems on Reflow Minor cosmetic changes to some screens 6.2.4.6 30 Oct 06 BIF: when typing and converting accid to note, now picks up the dot count from the chord there BUG: Offstave objects and no key sigs could cause Reflow to crash. 6.2.4.7 31 Oct 06 Global text button now on text toolbar, and colours happen immediately 6.2.4.8 3 Nov 06 Number of copies always reset to 1 on printer setup menu (previously left at last specified value) 6.2.4.9 13 Nov 06 BIF: On deletion of a stave you could be left with half-bound brackets. 6.2.4.10 20 Nov 06 BIF: Full bar rests with small (cue) notes gave misleading errors on bar length checks 6.2.4.11 20 Nov 06 BUG: Part Extraction: Curves with global attribute caused problems sometimes. 6.02e 6.2.5.1 23 Nov 06 New: Right-click stave to add 1st or 2nd time bars quickly 6.2.5.2 26 Nov 06 BUG: Tidy tools>Clef/Key/Time sigs could fail if change of key in large systems 6.2.5.3 29 Nov 06 New: Note length is full if tenuto emphasis Note is appropriately lounder if emphasis is tenuto,marcato or > (except for uniform volume instruments eg music box) 6.2.5.4 29 Nov 06 BUG: Files produced by evaluation copy could not be merged without first saving. 6.2.5.5 04 Dec 06 New: Stave information on right-click stave menu Bug: Large file playbacks plays could miss a note on the first beat 6.2.5.6 07 Dec 06 Bug: If the first ever tempo mark was after the last note then an error was caused. BIF: Neaten improved when chords have 2nds in them 6.2.5.7 15 Dec 06 Because of user confusion, transpose has been allowed at user level 1 BUG: At times program tried to save in old file format, giving a spurious warning 6.2.5.8 16 Dec 06 BUG: Right-click of Stave and Add New System Above/below did not allocate all attributes to the last stave in the new system 6.2.5.9 23 Dec 06 Files with no staves at all are now handled politely on reading Ctrl+PgDn/Up behaves like alt+PgDn/Up if system is last/first on the current page New: when minimised, the title is the file being worked on. 6.2.5.10 01 Jan 07 BIF: Could give spurious warning about C major key sigs when transposing BUG: Templates created with latest versions did not have correct description in template list New: Title page says "Standard version" or "Scanning version" if MP Scan is also present All references to 2006 now say 2007 6.2.5.11 06 Jan 07 BIF: When moving chord names after writing, they left a pink shadow New: Ctrl+D in text mode gives diminished chord symbol (ø) 6.03a 6.3.1.1 16 Jan 07 BIF: Playback from a given position now gets the tempo right BIF: Playback "This Page &on" now gets the "&on" right. New: Product rename as "Standard Edition" and "Scanning Edition" Distributed with some new sample files (New Intent, Carpet Music, Balloon) 6.3.1.2 22 Jan 07 BIF: A4 paper now defined as (eg) 8.267" wide since printers think that's 210mm and gave a "please confirm" message when printing 6.3.1.3 25 Jan 07 BUG: Combining rests to a multibar rest caused a fault if bar numbering was not enabled. New release of evaluation copy 6.04a 6.4.1.1 14 Feb 07 New: page setup and stave size setup combined to one menu New: Ctrl+drag on a word will move the whole line of words (eg lyrics) 6.4.1.2 21 Feb 07 Bug fix: when transposing a line stretching off the end of the music caused an error BIF: tremulo bars on small notes not look good BUG: Gutter margin on the new page setup menu did not work BUG: Page Numbering>"Page Number on first page?" setting was not saved New icons on File menu (History area) 6.4.1.3 05 Mar 07 New: Reports politely if problem with scanning temporary files BUG: Global font changed now correctly alters the melisma position 6.4.1.4 15 Mar 07 New: default leg lengths are now set to the value given on altering via leg dialog BUG: lines with seg or gap set to 5 were not saved correctly BUG: Facing pages now work (on new page setup menu, see 6.4.1.1) 6.4.1.5 19 Mar 07 BUG: Certain enharmonic changes gave impossible text on right-click of text New: More tolerance to files with faults in them (curves which are impossible) 6.04b 6.4.2.1 02 Apr 07 (Scanning Edition): New - automatically converts greyscale images to monochrome without complaint BIF: Sometimes Tidy>Optimisestems could give a duration modified rest 6.10a 6.10.1.1 11 Apr 07 Help overhauled and now uses HTML help since the old WinHlp is not supported by Windows Vista. 6.10.1.2 12 Apr 07 BUG: Notation Guide did not always work. 6.10.1.3 18 Apr 07 Now with 8 Audio Visual Demos (if they have been installed) on Help menu. 6.10.1.4 24 Apr 07 New: can now have "principal beam only" in more circumstances. Also this operation on popup menu 6.10.1.5 06 Jun 07 BIF: Courtesy accidentals given more room on neaten. BIF: Text is now not compressed on "make stave small" if it's marked as Immobile. (For titles etc) BIF: Insert system above/below did not replicate the "show bar numbering" attribute. BUG: Arrow heads not show when line straight BUG: melismas wrongly drawn when a header present BIF: Cosmetic: "make 2nd time bar" did not have icon on popup menu for stave right-clicking 6.10b 6.10.2.1 13 Jun 07 New: Options>Configure>Folders now has "Last used" button, as well as "Use this". BUG: Neaten refused to work on systems of more than one stave. 6.10c 6.10.3.1 23 Jun 07 New: Using Windows Media Player could result in midi sound set to zero, so MP would be inaudible! 6.10.3.2 25 Jun 07 BIF: Users of Large Fonts settings were not seeing all of some dialog screens. 6.10.3.3 29 Jun 07 New: X and T keys will make boxed or transpose text when editing (red) text 6.10.3.4 03 Jul 07 BIF: Allow edit control behaves better on startup 6.10.3.5 16 Jul 07 BIF: Changing stave name AND the instrument in one operation would not replicate 6.10.3.6 18 Jul 07 BIF: Default postition of semiquaver (16th note) rest was not in the normal position On merging the midi instrument (down stems) is no longer set to unallocated (although it was no problem) 6.10.3.7 19 Jul 07 BUG: Merging very old (MP32, ie MP4) files gave an error 6.10.3.8 Cosmetic 6.11a 6.11.1.1 02 Aug 07 Addition of 12 new symbols in symbol mode 6.11.1.2 13 Aug 07 Now deletes duplicate fermata after scanning BUG: cross inside "x in circle" heads did not print BIF: Right-click a rest>Notation Guide now gives specifically Rests. New: Tools>Other>Delete Duplicate Fermata: does what it says on the tin BUG: Duration Modify stem tremolos did not print properly BIF: Report of pulse on File>Information>Settings was incorrect 6.11.1.3 18 Aug 07 BUG: Sometimes transpose with text with no body, just a melisma, could cause error New: In text mode Ctrl+G gives half-diminished symbol 6.11.1.4 22 Aug 07 BIF: Playback tempo multiplier on Play form was changed on return to form after editing on main screen. Some small alteration to neaten (Scanning) now registers copy of licence on first run of program, not first run of scanning 6.11.1.5 01 Sep 07 New: Transpose allows multiple stave names in "staves named..." Some cosmetic changes eg spelling of certain words. BIF: When tempo changed on a stave then play this stave did not use the earlier tempo on a previous stave 6.11.1.6 04 Sep 07 More working changes on screen to clarify functions Playback tempo with tempo marks was wrong for 3/8, 6/8 etc 6.11.1.7 06 Sep 07 Improvements to neaten, esp for multi-bar rests 6.11.1.8 12 Sep 07 (Scanning Edition): program could give error on first run of version 6.11.1.4 or later 6.11.1.9 22 Sep 07 (Scanning Edition): program crashed when Scan screen opened 6.11.1.10 23 Sep 07 Could crash when very slightly increasing page width (due to long text width not calculated correctly) 6.11.1.11 26 Sep 07 Changing to Landscape in page layout had no actual effect 6.11.1.12 16 Oct 07 New: In Chord name mode it also now stops over rests when space pressed. Also remembers vertical position of chords to be placed on going to next line. Bug: 1st/2nd time bars on more than top stave caused lots of repeats to be done: now just one. Bug: Attachments button was working badly BIF: Exiting after using shortcuts [,{, Ctrl+[ did not warn user to save. 6.11.1.13 23 Oct 07 Bug: (evaluation copy only) Program freezes on restart after saving a template 6.11.1.14 31 Oct 07 Cosmetic, plus beta version of TAB notation 6.11.1.15 5 Nov 07 Evaluation copy: crashed on File>Merge operations 6.11.1.16 12 Nov 07 Attachments button now shows rests which are outside the stave (some scanning wrongly put them on nearest stave) Tools>Check fonts checks the fonts in the document against those in the system in case there is no match 6.11.1.17 16 Nov 07 Fonts also checked when a file opens and problems reported Bugs: Emphases (- or >) at tail not show correctly when in a chord Incorrect placement of ? sign when showing bar length errors Incorrect reporting of bar length errors with trill tremolos Incorrect reporting of bar length errors in bars after some duplets 6.11.1.18 06 Dec 07 Chord name mode now starts at the first rest, if the first note is a rest Bug in Neaten with accidentals - introduced 6.11.1.17 by accident 6.11.1.19 12 Jan 08 Optimise stems now leaves grace notes alone Plus beta copy of Drum Kit notation and playback All references to 2007 now say 2008 6.11.1.20 16 Jan 08 BUG: Now opens File>Save As in intended folder (set by Options>Configure>Folder) BUG: crashed when drawing rests on leger lines Improvements in Fixup Note Alignment, especially for scanned music Report on Tidy Tools better formatted 6.11.1.21 30 Jan 08 Position of bar numbers at stave upper left improved when numbers marked as Boxed. Report of stave density now better on Right-click stave. Shows all anchor points in pink when one anchor point is under the mouse ff,pp etc: now in centre of braced system refers to both parts. "active position" of the ff/pp now a little earlier bug fix: hairpin crescendo from fff louder went to ppp! Aligning of various note-relevant symbols is better (eg bowing marks, trills, turns, etc) Stave Size and stave name change now obeys "And Replicate" command on Stave Attributes 6.11.1.22 4 Feb 08 Bug: from a very full screen clicking the bottom left tab to change page could cause crash 6.12.1.1 6 Feb 08 Cosmetic changes to information boxes, more Vista styled. Bug fix: Right-click text>Font>Favourites did nothing. 6.12.1.2 7 Feb 08 Could not "force a bar number to be" 6.12.1.3 8 Feb 08 Changes to system wizard: changing names and inserting files together not allowed Bug fix: using wizard to insert a stave other than first page caused bad drawing 6.12.1.5 9 Feb 08 Bug fix: right-click text to change font not work after the first time 6.12.1.6 18 Feb 08 Bug fix: objects were showing wrong colours at various times Dustbin icon now active on multi-select mode. 6.12.1.7 20 Feb 08 Cosmetic 6.12.1.7 20 Feb 08 Problem with playback of overlapping grace note/normal note 6.12.1.8 10 Mar 08 Bug fixes: Move last bar down/first bar up had bad draw if this was over a page change Block mode would not create beamed tremolos Drawing of some slurs resulted in long slurs to left edge of page 6.12.1.9 17 Mar 08 BIF: redraws after changing properties of multi-selected objects BUG: sometimes playback stutters when short note with stemless note at same position. Cosmetic. Some wording changed. 6.12.1.10 25 Mar 08 Released with version 2.11 of the Help file and beta copy of Export to Word document 6.12.1.11 01 Apr 08 Final beta of Word Export, and update to TAB 6.12.1.12 04 Apr 08 BUG: "Move first bar up" could get it wrong if first bar was only a multi-bar rest BUG: Check this bar length was wrong if modified note durations present. 6.12.1.13 17 Apr 08 BIF: After multi-select some operations left the objects in blue still BUG: Sometimes the 2 large buttons on Options>Configure>Score would not fire Ctrl+M on red text centralises - now works in Header/Footer mode Block mode start: now shows green lines before block is defined to help clarify Cursors changed in block mode 6.12.1.14 21 Apr 08 BUG: system would give error if attempt to play only stave with all small notes (and "with grace notes" not ticked) 6.12.1.15 25 Apr 08 BUG: Stave>Add stave below could insert at wrong place BIF: System Wizard on completion reminded you that it would be better to use the SYstem Wizard! 6.12.1.16 08 May 08 BUG: Program could crash after reflowing if certain commands issued 6.12.1.17 29 May 08 BUG: starting playing on non-1st page gave wrong tempo if was not crotchet= Beta version of drum kit modified 6.12.1.18 02 Aug 08 Problems with Neaten on occasion