Music Publisher 7 Version list Version list 7.01a 7.1.1.1 28 Aug 08 First release 7.1.1.2 30 Aug 08 Program complained about missing leather background at times 7.1.1.3 31 Aug 08 Program would not start up under Vista. Favourite fonts not showing on hint properly 7.1.1.4 2 Sep 08 Program repeatedly asks to register 7.1.1.5 3 Sep 08 Vista: option form and page setup sometimes caused lock-up 7.1.1.6 Tools>Transpose gave an error 7.1.1.7 5 Sep 08 Import of abc did not work 7.1.1.8 8 Sep 08 Merging files could leave staves hanging off page Some rare reports of Feedback button being invisible 7.1.1.9 10 Sep 08 Opening score gave "list index out of bounds" on some computers 7.1.1.10 10 Sep 08 Page Numbering font was one third the required size on printout 7.1.1.11 12 Sep 08 Extra diagnostic information in saved scores. Some messages changed to be clearer. 7.1.1.12 15 Sep 08 Ctrl+PgUp did not behave as expected when on top system of page File>Save Part of Score could leave blank pages if not started on page 1 Neaten could leave some accidentals over their notes 7.1.1.13 17 Sep 08 Cosmetic changes Templates saved from System Construction Wizard could not be used (File>Save as Template was OK) Pre-block mode large green cursor was incomplete at bottom of page 7.1.1.14 23 Sep 08 Stave>Add stave below/above could leave uneditable barlines 7.1.1.15 30 Sep 08 Scanning Edition: could freeze on load on scores with cross-stave-beamed triplets (rare!) 7.1.1.16 1 Oct 08 Insert and delete Page Break did not work 7.1.1.17 2 Oct 08 Changes to repaginate 7.1.1.18 7 Oct 08 Add>New System could have replicatable objects hanging off the left plate edge Other adjustments to the Add>New System More information on "O Drat" screen 7.1.1.19 8 Oct 08 Artificial harmonics (diamond heads) did not play. Black diamond added to note head shapes. Percussion maps now replicate when defined in Stave Attributes 7.01b 7.1.2.1 9 Oct 08 Right-click command on text to convert b and # to proper accidentals. 7.1.2.2 13 Oct 08 Changing a note properties on a percussion stave could lose its sound 7.1.2.3 16 Oct 08 System Wizard last page: select Append could cause errors. 7.1.2.4 17 Oct 08 Multi-select (exactly) two notes at the same position to change attribute via right-click could freeze program. 7.1.2.5 18 Oct 08 Deleting text object by Change Text to empty could give problems. 7.1.2.6 20 Oct 08 Cosmetic change to font in boxes for systems without Corbel font 7.1.2.7 22 Oct 08 Problems editing text in header or footer Cosmetic: Program options icon changed to a spanner (wrench) in line with other software 7.1.2.8 28 Oct 08 When press 0 (zero) to change note size, accidental also now changes Change to beam positioning to make very short stems longer Position of dot on small short note too far right Wrong bar check results if multi-bar rests were present on a stave Some cosmetic changes 7.1.2.9 04 Nov 08 Error screen now invites the user to download the latest version. Enhancement: Enharmonic change for chord text now includes text after the / 7.1.2.10 12 Nov 08 BIF: when Options first started the page showing was volume page BIF: Range option of "whole Score" did not work in Swung duplet menu. New: right-click of a dynamic (eg "ff") gives menu to change it. Update to main help file. 7.1.2.11 19 Nov 08 New: Enharmonic change now offered more often. BIF: Neatening of notes with courtesy accidentals caused the accidentals to be moved away. New: Arpeggiandos now have minimum of 2 turns, and initial value of 3. A single turn was hard to "get hold of". 7.1.2.12 22 Nov 08 BUG: Staves consisting of a single stave line were impossible to move with the cursor BIF: Compress from right could omit the final barline 7.1.2.13 25 Nov 08 Stem tremolo menu was permanently disabled in Note Attributes. 7.1.2.14 01 Dec 08 BUG: Appoggiatura playback was treated like acciaccatura BIF: After re-attaching a symbol to next or previous system, some operations still reserved space for the symbol BUG: Tools>Check Bar Length: Over 100 problem bars would cause an error when diagnosing or similar New: When entering a note in a bar with one Full Bar Rest the rest will disappear. 7.01c 7.1.3.1 02 Dec 08 Upgrade to Help file 7.1.3.2 05 Dec 08 Style checking removed from Tools menu: released in error before complete! 7.1.3.3 15 Dec 08 BIF: Moving an existing arpeggiando mark with arrow keys left the mouse cursor behind. 7.02a 7.2.1.1 18 Dec 08 New: New method for writing over 70 accented characters (eg é) in Text Modes 7.2.1.2 23 Dec 08 BIF: Options form opened at wrong page Cosmetic: Some mis-spellings corrected. 7.2.1.3 'X' would not change an accidental when clicked over a note "add accidental" with XSNVW keys erroneously worked with a rest! 7.03a 7.3.1.1 23 Jan 09 New: Quick access to a large range of instruments on Stave Properties and System Wizard Some word changes in messages and menu item titles BIF: On "large font" systems, printing of text position and size was poor. BIF: Merging of bar rests could leave old barlines behind. 7.3.1.2 27 Jan 09 BIF: Neaten of notes with a double-stem unison and an accidental gave poor result BIF: Newly-scanned score would not do Ctrl+Drag on words to catch a whole line. 7.03b 7.3.2.1 28 Jan 09 New: Mouse wheel works in choosing symbols in symbol mode. Thanks to Len Lawson for this suggestion. 7.3.2.2 29 Jan 09 BUG: System wizard would not open correctly 7.3.2.3 02 Feb 09 BUG: Neaten did not work well on piping scores BIF: Printing of breves and semibreves on small size staves not placed well. 7.3.2.4 03 Feb 09 BUG: Sys wizard not draw newly added staves correctly 7.3.2.5 04 Feb 09 New: Playback appoggiaturas only if "Grace notes as normal". GHB scores tick this box by default. 7.3.2.6 06 Feb 09 Changes to temporary version 7.3.2.7 08 Feb 09 BUG: Font sizes for lyrics could change slightly on printouts. 7.03c 7.3.3.1 25 Mar 09 NEW: TAB stave now comes in 4 sizes BIF: Changes to TAB tuning from stave properties now change properly BUG: "arco" text did not work when displaced from the "pizz" text by many lines BUG: Staves with less than 100% volume gradually faded with each stave BUG: Could not remove stem tremolos with Note Attributes dialog. Clearer icons and menu items on Import from Bitmap screen 7.3.3.2 01 Apr 09 BUG: "Stem" of rests was sometimes pointlessly overruled in playback leading to pauses 7.3.3.3 06 Apr 09 New: Additions to Tip of the Day and Help system BIF: Does not worry about large/small fonts if there is no text in the file! BUG: System>Add system below gave mixed up results if it was the last system and at the bottom of a page. New: Accidentals can now be invisible. 7.03d 7.3.4.1 06 May 09 BUG: File>Text Search could miss files in folders which had a badly-formatted MP file BIF: Sytem>Add system below/above needed two undo commands to do the undo BIF: Swung duplets only applied to melody - now will do chords New: Swing available as toolbar in multi-select mode: applies also to non-equal length notes Help file extra item on Troubleshooting Scanning 7.3.4.2 09 May 09 BUG: Chord name playback on systems larger than one stave did not work properly 7.03e 7.3.5.1 18 May 09 New: Size of symbols (placed in symbol mode) can be changed from 75% to 125% of standard Change: Chord name playback recognition now allows # and b instead of the correct sharp and flat symbols 7.3.5.2 18 May 09 BIF: Change of Lyric or Chord Font in My Favourites was not active until restart of MP. 7.3.5.3 19 May 09 New: Ctrl+Drag of a note also drags lyric item left or right. Also some symbols such as fermata. 7.3.5.4 08 Jun 09 BUG: Decrescendo from ppp gave volume of fff BUG: Clicking This Page Layout in Options>Score did nothing 7.3.5.5 10 Jun 09 BUG: File>Export>Word did not use the filename if you changed it in the Word Export dialog box. 7.3.5.6 15 Jun 09 BIF: Changing slur properties in Note Attributes form did not do anything 7.03f 7.3.6.1 19 Jun 09 BIF: Some buttons did not respond to Explain BUG: Pressing Tab or alt-Tab to move a beamed note could crash New: (Scanning) Optional Despeckling routine on the Picture menu. 20 Jun 09 BUG: Some settings on Options>Configure>Score were ignored when changing 7.3.6.2 22 Jun 09 BUG: Finger placements on TAB staves not always in the correct vertical position BIF: Full bar rests with fermata were played back as if without fermata 7.3.6.3 Confusion over version numbering. Never released. 7.3.6.4 07 Jul 09 BIF: Cosmetic. Options>Score was not coloured properly. BIF: Playback using "from this point" when there were no notes after the point caused error BIF: Moving a note via keyboard (eg left,right,tab) did not move accidentals associated with it BIF: Moving cursor with Tab or Backtab will now ignore full bar rest positions BIF: When placing many symbols at once, all except the last were coloured as provisional on finishing New: Symbol mode "Many symbols" setting is now remembered by the software BIF: Under Vista program is correctly shown on task bar etc 7.3.6.5 22 Jul 09 BUG: Time Align did not work when first chord on stave had an accidental somewhere New: Editing a time signature offers to replace all others in the system 7.03g 7.3.7.1 22 Jul 09 New: Block copying of notes into bars with full bar rest now deletes the full bar rest 7.03h 7.3.8.1 06 Aug 09 BIF: Word Export now warns page will change when there are only 2 pages. BUG: Full bar rests with acciaccaturas before first note in bar in another system caused pause in playing BUG: Multi-bar rest in the first bar was lost when a new System is added. BIF: Mechanical Organ sample score had error giving wrong playback BIF: Screen difficult to handle when current stave is scrolled off by mouse 7.3.8.2 07 Aug 09 BIF: Some objects too small or thin to get hold of when moving/editing. Eg dotted barline, augmentation dots 7.3.8.3 10 Aug 09 New: Licence terms are explained on Help>Licence New: System obeys verbal tempo instructions, eg "Allegro". BIF: Insert system before/after needed Strong Repaginate afterwards New: Updated help file Symbols, hairpins, lines, etc now limited to area around currentstave in User Lev 3 also. 7.3.8.4 17 Aug 09 BUG: Program could crash if global crescendos placed on more than one stave in a system. New: File>Export>As Word document now asks user to close Word if it's running. Previously it closed Word itself. BIF: File>Export>As Word document now allows ( and ) as characters in the filename 7.3.8.5 18 Aug 09 BUG: Sometimes playback or Save Midi crashed. 7.3.8.6 20 Aug 09 New installation file 7.3.8.7 23 Aug 09 BUG: Changing from Standard type stave to Percussion stave could give an error 7.3.8.8 26 Aug 09 BIF: More systematic behaviour of TAB tuning screen on Stave Attributes form 7.3.8.9 29 Aug 09 BIF: Stave Attributes: now gives warning if changing to or from TAB stave. BIF: Sometimes a curve was created global and drawn blue BUG: Pedalling lines not printed correctly 7.3.8.10 09 Sep 09 BIF: On Stave Attributes form, Stave name box did not respond to arrows or Home/End etc. On Tempo dialog, changes to the way the Beats per Minute box behaves Better behaviour on deletion of full bar rests during block copying/moving Volume playback on stave change incorrect if hairpin at end of previous relevant stave Word Export now makes sure you want to override a document with that name Updated Help file 7.3.8.11 23 Sep 09 BIF: More improvements to Tempo seletion screen operation New: Dotted barlines and half barlines now centralise on stave automatically and move together if Ctrl+dragged New: Has command to de-register scanning engine. Needed on systems where the registry has been modified by software such as Regisry Mechanic. BIF: Tempo object was hard to select and harder to move with the keyboard arrows BIF: Part Extraction: if barlines through on some staves then the report of bar length errors could be incorrect BIF: Reflow: repeat barlines could confuse the program giving wrong positioning Evaluation copy: Now does export of picture files/word document (although still with "spoilers") 7.3.8.12 29 Sep 09 New: When playing the focus now goes to the main screen BIF: Some improvements to move bar up/down 7.3.8.13 02 Oct 09 BIF: Some lyrics remained where they were when Neatened 7.3.8.14 09 Oct 09 BIF: Slur of (eg) A to A# treated like a tie on playback BUG: Add>New system when there was replicatable text caused systems to creep to the right 7.3.8.15 14 Oct 09 BUG: Right-click stave gave error if a full bar rest too near the right of the stave BUG: System compress could give erroneous "no objects in that direction" message. 7.3.8.16 15 Oct 09 Cosmetic changes Scanning: Automatic tidying up of emphases in chords New: Tidy item to perform this tidying up 7.3.8.17 20 Oct 09 New: Right-click note to turn tie or slur dotted or not BUG: Move last bar down/first bar up could hang system 7.3.8.18 21 Oct 09 BIF: Full bar rest in a stave with parts in could give bar length check error BIF: Unisons tied to unisons, ie 2 ties, could forget one tie after saving and other operations 7.3.8.19 03 Nov 09 BUG: Tied notes on a stave which is transposed did not sound correctly. 7.3.8.20 17 Nov 09 BUG: Tied notes from accidentalised note over the barline to no-accidental note did not sound properly BIF: Deleting top stave of system would lose tempo indications BIF: Start and Stop buttons on play menu did not behave properly when playback was aborted 7.3.8.21 20 Nov 09 BUG: Some scanned scores with missing tails on some notes could cause program lockup when Neaten used. BIF: "Uniform Volume" attribute on Stave Properties>Sound was not copied to other staves even when Replicate was ticked 7.3.8.22 30 Nov 09 New: Some files sent by email could be scrambled by the transfer and report "no staves in this file". This version unscrambles them. BUG: Some Part Extraction of two parts from one stave could hang the program. 7.3.8.23 07 Dec 09 BIF: Ctrl-drag some chords could fail if an accidental was too far to the right. 7.3.9.1 16 Dec 09 New: Extra button for 8va type lines on the Line Properties menu. BIF: Font Script of Favourite Fonts were not saved between program runs. BIF: Using alt+left/right to move through objects caused curves to disappear temporarily 7.3.9.2 29 Dec 09 New: Note counts on File>Information>Document BIF: on pressing underscore (_) in lyric mode, the melisma sometimes stretched to the next note. BUG: On systems which do not have full stop (.) as decimal separator, some functions did not work 7.3.9.3 01 Jan 10 Cosmetic: "2009" changed to "2010" on copyright notices 7.3.9.4 07 Jan 10 BIF: Tie note over line ends could get confused if more notes added to the right of the tied note BIF: Page>Stave Size: pressing Largest could give "impossible" report. In fact stave size of 1 is impossible. 7.3.10.1 08 Jan 10 BIF: Tab stave size now appears on TAB notation tools screen. New: Changing font in Text Attributes now gives access to Favourite font screen 7.3.10.2 11 Jan 10 BUG: Some ornaments could cause program freeze 7.3.10.3 18 Jan 10 Cosmetic (Tools>Tidy menu) BIF: Lyrics badly placed to left of stave start could give bad results on Tools>Tidy>Stave Start 7.3.11.1 28 Jan 10 New: Shift-click-and-hold now selects all notes of a chord and all notes within a beamed set 7.3.11.2 13 Feb 10 BUG: Moving TAB text numbers on a TAB stave gave wrong answers if string pitches were not in ascending order 7.3.11.3 15 Feb 10 BUG: Adding more than one TAB stave in the Tools>TAB operation resulted in overlayed staves Cosmetic: Minor changes to tutorial to reflect changes in button icons 7.03m 7.3.13.1 19 Feb 10 New: Fingering symbols now move with notes when Ctrl+Drag the notes New: In symbol mode, press key 1 to 9 to change the object to fingering symbol New: In symbol mode if object is ppp..fff then press P or F to change it softer or louder New: In symbol mode, press Left, Right to change the objeect to next/previous symbol 7.3.13.2 23 Feb 10 New: Text type can now be seen and assigned by right-click>Properties and Tools>Other>Guess New: Program does invisible check after saving that the file is good. BIF: Chord names now behave like Lyrics when a note is moved with Ctrl+drag. 7.3.13.3 17 May 10 BIF: String Ensemble sound now responds to Pizzicato etc BIF: Text Attributes Dialog: after selecting a Favourite font it now ticks the Alter Fonts on exit box. See 7.3.10.1 BUG: Sometimes an error given after quitting chord sound setup BUG: After File>New>Build Wizard then later File>Close and the next file>Open gave fatal error New: Enharmonic change on Context menu for notes (preparation for MP8) 7.3.13.4 18 May 10 BUG: Some keys did not work in Text modes 7.3.13.5 19 May 10 BUG: Ditto 7.03n 7.3.14.1 26 May 10 New: Enharmonic change to 7 flats or sharps by right-click key sig 7.3.14.2 28 May 10 Cleanup of some startup code (AcroPDF) makes swifter loading