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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 There is no on-line help, but there is a slightly out of date 80-page tutorial manual on the distribution directory as well as some example music documents to illustrate techniques of use.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
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