MOZART 15
November 2020
No infelicities found yet, but here's a list of new features
Symbols
- ‘Slash’ note-heads are now available (in two
slightly different styles).
- Note heads may now
be put in parentheses (in addition to the existing
option of putting courtesy accidentals in parentheses).
- The laisser vibrer symbol (a ‘tie to nowhere’) is
available.
- An optional continuation symbol is
introduced for system breaks occurring in the middle of
a bar.
- Optional continuation symbols have been
introduced for where the number of staves shown on a
system differs from the previous system.
- There is a
greater degree of support for Accordion music, including
a choice of 32 register (coupler) symbols.
- Note stems
may be hidden (for specialist purposes).
- A greater
selection of styles is available for 8va and other
brackets over/under the music.
Rendering
- Bar
numbers may be placed above or below and by the bar-line
or centred on the bar.
- The position of individual bar
numbers may be fine-tuned to avoid collisions.
- The
position of ‘redirections’ (DS, DC, Fine, Coda,…) may be
fine-tuned to avoid collisions.
- Rendering of multiple
bars rest is improved.
- The background colour (‘paper
colour’) for the representation of the music on the
screen is now user-definable.
- The caesura (break //)
now plays back (with adjustable duration).
- Pieces may
now be marked with one of the modes: Major, Minor,
Dorian Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Ionian, Aeolian, or
Locrian (or left unmarked as before).
Interface improvements
- A new, quicker mechanism, is introduced
for entering triplets and other tuplets when typing in
music.
- An item (such as text or dynamics), having
been entered in one part, may now be copied to all
parallel parts, or to a selection of parallel parts,
with a single command.
- Individual items (such as text
and dynamics) may now be copied and pasted.
- Delete
commands specific to items including dynamics and
sforzandi have been introduced. These allow one to
select a block and remove, for example, all dynamics
from it, leaving other items unaffected.
- Automatic
beaming of groups of notes (including breaking inner
beams) has improved.
- On starting a new piece (by any
of the three available methods) you can choose the
‘classic’ or ‘jazz’ music font.
- The procedure for
extracting musicians’ parts from a score has been
refined and improved.
- All musicians parts may be
extracted with a single command.
- Text font styles are
now separated into two sets: one for text in the music
(expressions, directions,…) and one for on the page
(title, headers, footers,..). These scale with the music
and the page size respectively.
- Text font styles for
the music now include standard (but user-definable)
styles for expression markings, instructions, and tempi
(as discussed by Elaine Gould in ‘Behind bars’).
-
Many operations which previously required one to show
the virtual conductor stave, may now be effected
transparently, without actually showing it.
- When
hidden staves are shown for editing, the screen page
image expands to allow this to be done smoothly.
-
Export of abc files is improved.
- Mozart now has ‘page
layout files (.mzlayout) in addition to score template
files (.mzt). Score templates continue to be available
for creating a new piece, and contain both score
structure and page layout information. Page layout files
contain only page layout information, and are used, for
example, when extracting parts from a score. A page
layout may also be imposed from a .mzlayout file on to
an existing piece.
- A page layout may also be imposed
from a .mzlayout file on to an existing piece.
- The
overview of text boxes has improved.
- There is a new
‘Help’ category tab replacing the drop-down list of
help-related topics.
- The mouse-wheel action when the
Ctrl key is pressed has been adjusted to conform to its
behaviour in Microsoft’s applications.
- A new
tablature command is available to move a note from one
string to another, automatically adjusting the fret in
order to preserve the pitch.