mozart 2005  Version 8.1.7 October 2006

mozart 2005  Version 8.1.6 August 2006

mozart 2005 Version 8.1.5 July 2006 (not issued)

mozart 2005 Version 8.1.4 May 2006

mozart 2005  Version 8.1.3 March 2006

mozart 2005  Version 8.1.2   December 2005

mozart 2005 Version 8.1.1 September 2005

 

mozart 2005  Version 8.1.0  July 2005

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IMPORTANT: this service pack will try to install an updated version of the mozart musical symbols font file mozart 8_.ttf into your system fonts folder.   In order to succeed it must first uninstall the old one.   If  the font is in use (or if  the Windows Operating System thinks it is), this will fail.  But the rest of the Service Pack installation will succeed.

To check (optionally) for success: go to ControlPanel/Fonts and double click on the font mozart 8.  The information which appears should indicate that this is version 2 of the font created in July 2005.

Symptoms of failure: the dots on repeat barlines ||:  :|| will appear as ugly squares denoting a missing symbol in the font.

Corrective action: you will find a copy of the new version of the font mozart 8_.ttf  in the documents subfolder of your mozart program folder -
                        typically "c:\program files\mozart 2005\Documents"

Go to the  ControlPanel/Fonts folder and delete the mozart 8 font.  If Windows prevents you from doing this, reboot your computer and try again.   Then copy the new version of the font file mozart 8_.ttf  from the above location into the  ControlPanel/Fonts folder.  mozart 2005 will then find it when it runs.
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            Also new in this service pack:

·                     Thanks to Michael Bednarek for reporting problems when a key and time signature change are placed exactly at a Coda symbol.    This is now fixed.

·                     Thanks also to Michael for finding an example where the paste operation failed.  It turned out that there are likel;y to be problems when the pasted chunk contains tempo changes in the middle of bars.  This is now fixed.  [The tempo change are omitted from the pasting.]

·                     Thanks to Anthony Wieser for pointing out that the viewer was still sometimes mistaking which version of mozart had written a file.  This is now fixed, and the View/TuneProperties command now gives a little more information.

·                    Thanks also to Anthony for finding a file which just didn't print from the mozart viewer.  This is now fixed too.

·                    Thanks to Jeroen Neve for locating problems with separating strands and editing an anacrusis while the caret is on a lyric line.  These are now fixed.

·                    Thanks to Mike Hurrell for pointing out a couple of typos in the help system, which have now be corrected.

·                     mozart 2005 (8.1.0) has been extended to allow use of  compatible 3rd party music fonts.  A jazz font will be available for sale shortly - please keep an eye on the "news" page of http://www.mozart .co.uk for information on this.   Once a compatible 3rd party font is installed, it will automatically appear as an option in the drop down list of fonts in the layout editor.

·                     The standard mozart symbol font file used by this version has been updated to mozart 8_.ttf (version 2).  If there are problems, then  a copy of mozart 8_.ttf may be downloaded from www.mozart .co.uk.

·                     For some time now we have had occasional reports of mozart crashing when notes are entered on lines and spaces of a percussion stave for which no instrument is defined.  We have never been able to duplicate this.  Jeroen Neve has made the hugely significant observation that there is no crash if the midi echoing is switched off.   This pinpoints it very nicely as a sound card driver problem, and code has now been edited in an attempt to by-pass it.   We still haven't duplicated the problem but, with luck, this may stabilise it for those who have encountered it.   Thanks Jeroen.

·                     Michael Bednarek, normally very much at home in the mozart help system, had great difficulty finding out about raising and lowering 1st and 2nd time bars, and open and closed ends thereof.  On inspection it transpired that this information was buried fairly deeply with no obvious path to get to it.  Cross referencing and indexing has therefore now been improved.

mozart 2005  Version 8.0.6  May 2005

·                     Thanks to Lindsay Lorden for sending in a file demonstrating the fact that mozart has severe problems when a line contains less than one whole bar.  Part bars on lines was made possible in mozart 2005 but lines containing less than a whole bar triggered a bug.  This is now fixed.

·                     Thanks to Mr R. Earl for reporting that the caret is sent to the start when using the command to separate strands onto different staves.  It also happened when recombining.  Both have now been fixed.

·                     It has also been reported that saving or copying a window image, does not accurately crop the resulting image to the visible part of the window.  A partial improvement has been made for saving EMF files, but this is still under investigation.

·                     There have been intermittent reports of crashing if the play-back command is issued rapidly and repeatedly.  Thanks to Mike Hurrell for providing a timely reminder.  The problem was almost certainly to do with launching the playback thread and terminating it before it was fully initialised.  A mechanism has been introduced to prevent this, but its success will only be judged after some time as the problem was intermittent and effectively irreproducible.

·                     David Jordan has found some unpleasant behaviour which can occur when a multiple-bars-rest symbol is immediately followed by a time signature change.  On investigation it transpired that this could affect a number of commands in this circumstance.  But it is now fixed.  Thank you David.

·                     Thanks to Jeroen Neve for finding some weird behaviour when introducing a time signature change at the last bar line when there was just one note after it.   It is now fixed.

·                     Jeroen has also pointed out that the caret mode (on clusters or single items as toggled with F8) does not correctly return to the previous state on Undo.  This is now corrected.

·                     Thanks again to Jeroen for pointing out that the File/Import/OpenClipboard command was not always providing a perfect replica of the clipboard contents when transposing instruments are involved.  This is now fixed too.

·                     Thanks also to Jeroen for finding another unusual beast in the mozart jungle.  If the caret mode is in cluster mode and you try to delete a collection of bar, time change and key change,  not only does it fail (you are supposed to delete time and key changes one at a time)  but it may also delete a note which was innocently minding its own business a little way back.   This behaviour has now been curbed.

·                     Thanks yet again to Jeroen for noticing that if you try to delete the time signature at a music break where the time signature doesn't actually change, you can get undesirable results.  This has now been fixed.  You can't delete it but it goes away when you remove the music break.

·                     Jeroen has also noticed that changing the time signature of a passage which goes through a music break with no time signature change can lead to undesirable result.  This too is fixed and the passage on which the time change operates is now delimited by the music break.

·                     And somehow Jeroen has also found (for which thanks again) circumstances in which a clef change at the end of a line can result in some odd stems being drawn beyond the end of the line.  This was a very subtle one but it too is now cured.

·                     We have discovered a circumstance in which a small memory leak could occur, leading to a slow gradual unnecessary increase in the computer memory used by mozart which is only released on exiting mozart .  This is now fixed.

·                     mozart commences play-back by sending a MIDI "System Reset" message to the synthesiser. This removes any undesirable effects left over from what it might have been doing before.  But one user has pointed out that if you are using and external MIDI synth, you do *not* always want this to happen.  He has a point, and so we have now introduced a check box on the GlobalPreferences/PlayBack dialogue so that you can choose whether or not a System Reset is sent.  The recommendation is that if you are playing back on a sound card., leave it checked.  Otherwise choose which you want according to what you're doing with the connected device.

·                     Thanks to Michael Bednarek for noticing that when the caret attempts to move onto a hidden stave, it is forced to appear, even in the mozart viewer.  This is now changed for the viewer, but unchanged in mozart itself.

·                     Changing a music break into a line break, now no longer leaves a time signature behind.  Thanks to Jeroen again for finding this one.

·                     It is now harder to remove dots form a repeat bar inside a 1st and 2nd time bar.

·                     The font size on the layout editor is now shown to one decimal place as previously 12.6 points and 11.4 points were both showing as 12.

·                     A small error in the page layout was occurring on changing the music font size on the printer.  Thanks to Jeroen for doing this repeatedly up and down and up and down and proving that the error was cumulative and would lead eventually to disaster.  This is now fixed and disaster averted. 

mozart 2005 Version 8.0.5 March 2005

  • Thanks to Jeroen Neve for noticing that the shift+spacebar command operating on a chord containing notes flipped around the stem can leave the resultant rest apparently offset from its desired position. This is now fixed.
  • Richard Walker has noticed that the bar numbering dialogue is not working entirely harmoniously: the number every n bars selector and the radio button which invokes it were not initialising consistently. This is now fixed.
  • Zlatoje Pjacic has reminded me that he and others would like a "half German" notation for chord symbols where B becomes H but Bb stays as Bb. This is introduced as a small extra feature in this Service Pack.
  • Thanks to David Jordan for reporting that strand labels are getting reset when a file is loaded. This is now fixed.
  • Thanks to Peter Moss, Bob Culverston, and Kate Swanson, for sending an example which defeated mozart 2005's layout editor. The algorithm which resizes the music font on the printer was becoming unstable when the font was very small and the right margin very wide. This is now fixed.
  • An interface improvement: the spin button on the Layout Editor tool now increments by a larger amount if the Ctrl button on the keyboard is held down while it is operated.
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    mozart 2005 - Version 8.0.3 - February 2005

    The following problems, reported with mozart 2005, are fixed in Service Pack Mz2005 SP 0.3

  • Thanks to John Mowad for the reminder that shift+click ought to establish a selection from the caret to the point where one clicks. This now happens.
  • Thanks also to John for finding a bug in the stem drawing on tablature staves in cases where more than one string is played at once. The error is small on the screen but can be enormously magnified on the printer. It is now fixed.
  • Marie K has discovered a particular case where mozart 's new accidental alignment in different strands is not working properly, and this has been further elucidated by Michael Bednarek. Thanks Marie and Michael; this is now fixed.
  • Some of the topics in the help "index by category" were truncated. This is now fixed.
  • mozart has not been importing multiple-bars rest from NIFF files correctly. Thanks to John Morgan for sending an example. This is now fixed.
  • Thanks also to Bill Patterson for sending a couple of NIFF files which defeated mozart . These now import happily too.
  • Jeroen Neve has reported some strange scrolling behaviour which manifests itself when one has a very magnified view and attempts to delete an undeletable bar-line. This was harmless but annoying and has now been curbed.
  • Nigel Sharpe has found a peculiar circumstance (notes pseudo-tied at an octave) where mozart was not implementing the correct repeated accidental rule. This is now fixed. Thanks, Nigel.
  • Accidentals were also not correctly reverting after a note tied across a bar-line. This too is now fixed.
  • A completely unrelated bug (as it turned out) was reported by Gunnar Nordström in which it was not possible in some circumstances to remove all the unnecessary visible accidentals from a selected block. This was failing internally also resulting in unwanted accidentals in some places. Thanks to Gunnar's examples, this has now been fixed.
  • David Neal and Bengt Johnsson have found strange things happening with bar numbers in the neighbourhood of multiple bars rest. On investigation a few odd things were happening, depending on circumstances. Thanks to David and Bengt these are now fixed.
  • There have been some residual problems with PageSetup (in particular changing between landscape and portrait modes) following the fix in the previous service pack. Once again thanks especially to Joseph de Charentenay for his assistance. After particular difficulty tracking this down, it was eventually found to apply only to devices with oblong pixels. And, oddly perhaps, printers whose pixels are none square when defined by Windows 98 drivers often turn out to be square when defined by Windows XP drivers. In fact no-one running XP has reported the problem. This was proving slow to analyse but eventually we discovered that Windows XP has drivers for the ancient Epson FX80 printer with 120x144 dpi oblong pixels and debugging was significantly accelerated. Thanks to Chris Marriott for suggesting this printer for debugging: I never dreamed there would be any left by the time XP was released! The problem is now fixed (hopefully definitively).
  • Thanks to Gerard Vogels for noticing that time signature changes at the end of lines were being placed off the right-hand-side of the stave, and sending an excellent illustration. This is now fixed too. (This should be caught when loading music files in which it happened, but in case it isn't, just insert space until the bar moves to a new line, and then delete the space again, and it will be reformatted correctly!)
  • Thanks to Fred Bridges for sending a NIFF file which did not import correctly. The problem was that it had key changes at the start of systems, which were not advertised at the end of the previous system. mozart 's NIFF import module is now more tolerant of this lax syntax (not Fred's fault!) and will now import this NIFF file (and probably a lot of others with which it may have has difficulty before).
  • Thanks to Fred, and also to Graham Jones, author of SharpEye, we have also been able to improve the import of NIFF files time signature changes at the end of stave lines.
  • Bill Patterson has noticed that stave labels have been moving into the stave. They have now been nailed to the page (again).
  • Jerry Leighton (probably among others) has been getting frustrated by the break symbol (//) getting forced (horizontally) up against notes wen pasting or duplicating parts and has asked (very nicely) if anything can be done about this. It does seem reasonable that the break should be compulsorily allowed some space to itself, and so it has now been prevented from getting too close to the notes and rests which it must lie between.
  • Thanks to Jeroen Neve for pointing out that introducing extra bar lines could also create a myriad of courtesy accidentals. This bug appears to have crept in in v 8.0.1 but is now fixed.
  • Thanks to Szabó Árpád Zoltán for finding one or two typos in the help system, which have now been corrected.

    • mozart 2005 - Version 8.0.2 - December 2004

    The following problems, reported with mozart 2005, are fixed in Service Pack Mz2005 SP 0.2

    mozart 2005 - Version 8.0.1 - November 2004

    Despite extensive testing, one or two teething troubles have been reported with mozart 2005 (v 8.0.0), and are fixed in Service Pack Mz2005 SP 0.1