What's new in Denemo 2.2
Jul 26, 2017
- New Features:
- Virtual Piano Keyboard
- Defaults to 8 octaves
- Enter rhythm then pitches
- Enter Chords via right click
- Score editing key shortcuts unaffected
- Touch screen ready
- MIDI Simulation
- PC-keyboard simulates Piano Keyboard
- Enter rhythm then pitches
- Octave Control
- Works for entering chords too
- Customize key assignments
- Lyrics Improvements
- Handle mis-matched quotes
- Avoid accidental verse deletion
- Figured Bass Enhancements
- Position figures on whole notes better
- Make accidentals without a figure bigger
- Position accidentals before a figure better
- Slur and Tie Styles
- Choose from Dashed, Dotted or Solid
- Support for .gz files
- Open compressed files without renaming
- Bug Fixes:
- Upgrade keeping shortcuts
- Command Center searches with leading space
New in Denemo 2.1.3 (Jun 9, 2017)
- GTK Upgrade:
- UI manager dropped
- All deprecations to version 3.22 fixed
- New Features:
- Gregorian Chant Support
- Easier Mirrored Dynamics
- Lyrics verses can be mirrored to other staffs
- Easy selection of staffs to typeset
- Improved Playback Controls
- Less Cluttered Dynamics Line
- Cross Voice Arpeggios
- Baritone Clef support
- Invoke Command Center on commands from Object Editor
- Tear-off Menus:
- Now tear off as palettes
- Keep them around, dock them, edit the tooltips…
- Clearer Display:
- Object Position indicators only where needed
- Bug Fixes:
- Setting playback start via button is now reliable
- Playback View sometimes playing from wrong point fixed
- Instability on Undo after delete of staff with lyrics
- Ledger lines in display for staffs of less than 5 lines fixed
- Fix display of Drum Clef
- Fix positioning of graphics in display for windows
- Fix Playback View for certain locales
- Improved Lyrics display
- Fix Lyric aligment syntax
New in Denemo 2.1 (Apr 20, 2017)
- GTK Upgrade
- UI manager dropped
- All deprecations to version 3.22 fixed
- New Features:
- Gregorian Chant Support
- Easier Mirrored Dynamics
- Lyrics verses can be mirrored to other staffs
- Easy selection of staffs to typeset
- Improved Playback Controls
- Less Cluttered Dynamics Line
- Cross Voice Arpeggios
- Baritone Clef support
- Invoke Command Center on commands from Object Editor
- Tear-off Menus
- Now tear off as palettes
- Keep them around, dock them, edit the tooltips…
- Clearer Display
- Object Position indicators only where needed
- Bug Fixes:
- Setting playback start via button is now reliable
- Playback View sometimes playing from wrong point fixed
- Instability on Undo after delete of staff with lyrics
- Ledger lines in display for staffs of less than 5 lines fixed
- Fix display of Drum Clef
- Fix positioning of graphics in display for windows
- Fix Playback View for certain locales
- Improved Lyrics display
- Fix Lyric aligment syntax
- Fix for wrong note names after octave up/down
New in Denemo 2.0.14 (Nov 28, 2016)
- New Tooltip System
- Controllable Popup rate
- Unaffected by Gtk changes
- Preview Pane for Markup
- Markup previewed as you type
- Bad syntax picked up straight away
- New Features
- Specify total page count
- Set a distinctive style for page numbers
- Duplex View now shows page edges clearly
- Chord Entry by MIDI keyboard without sustain pedal
- Palette button creation for chord types
- Reload standard palettes
- Support for percent style repeats
- New transposition interfaces
- Comprehensive Chord Inserts palette
- Mensural/Petrucci Style Palette
- Conditional Behavior for Clef, Key and Time directives
- Edit Book Titles with markup
- Multi-line text and music
- Preview Pane
- Insertion of music glyphs
- Insertion of Chord Symbols separated from insertion of note names
- Applying effects to the selected text
- Raising/Lowering of glyphs, fret diagrams etc to match text
- Transcription from Source Improvements
- Allow selected parts to be highlighted
- Edit the masked-off sections
- Reduces errors (e.g. switching to wrong part)
- Polymetric Staff Support
- Allow different time signatures simultaneously
- Allow non-synchronous barlines
- Hidden (dummy) measures
- Verses at End of Music
- Add further verses
- Edit with preview
- Multiple columns
- Bug Fixes
- Hide Initial clef, key, time now update print view correctly
- Navigation from stale Print View fixed
- InsertChord command fixed at clef change
- Typeset Verses at End now copes with quotes, underscore, tildes
- Fix dragging rests in Print View
- Fix syllable alignment
- Transpose chord root names in Display
New in Denemo 2.0.12 (Sep 17, 2016)
- New Features:
- Assign current staff to an instrument
- Create Ligatures
- Add staff for instrument now sets time and key signatures
- Improved menu layout
- Custom Templates preserved on upgrade
- Direct setting of Mute/Printing status of staffs at staff start
- More GUI features:
- Highlighting objects as the cursor hovers over them
- Staff tools in Display expanded
- A Movement tools button installed
- Tools in Display now sensitive when hovered over
- Hidden Staffs indicator now clickable
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix Print View update when changing initial clef/timesig
- Fix Print View update when using score properties dialog
- Fix WYSISYG beam angle alteration
- Fix display update on attaching ornaments without cursor highlighting
- Fix visibility of cursor on Denemo Directives
- Various fixes to undo:
- Handle absence of LilyPond more gracefully
- Edit staff by mouse interface improved
- Known Bugs:
- Navigation from stale Print View with selection causes problems with Default Score
- Layout:
- InsertChord command gives bad display when used after clef change
New in Denemo 2.0.8 (May 11, 2016)
- New features:
- Copy and Paste
- Applies to note/chord attributes
- CtrlC, Ctrl-V work for these
- Copied marking is highlighted
- Selection changes color when copied
- Improved Acoustic Feedback
- Trill makes a short trill sound on entry
- Copy attributes sounds
- Improved Visual Feedback
- Status bar notices are animated
- Characters are highlighted in Lyric Verses
- Directives are made more legible when cursor is on them
- Cadenza Time
- For un-metered music
- Music can still display in “bars”
- New Commands
- Tuplet Positioning
- Curved Tuplet Brackets
- Cadenza on/off uses Cadenza Time, sets smaller note size, editable text
- Notes without stems
- Multi-line text annotation
- Bold, Italic etc now apply to selection
- A guard prevents accidental syntax collision
- Updated Manual
- More detail
- Now indexed
- Bug Fixes
- Command Center search now reliable
- Standalone Multi-line text with backslash editing
- Pasting into measures that precede a time signature change
New in Denemo 2.0.4 (Mar 10, 2016)
- New features:
- Conditional Directives on Chords/Notes
- Create editions with/without ornaments, fingerings …
- Conditional items are highlighted in the display
- Object Inspector reports on them
- Enhanced Object Editor
- Set Conditional Behavior
- Initiate Search/Edit from Object
- New Commands
- Gaps in Staffs
- Enharmonic transpositions of passages
- Generating Parts
- Part naming extended to multi-staff instruments
New in Denemo 2.0.0 (Nov 3, 2015)
- New features in this version:
- Object Inspector
- Full details of current object nicely formatted
- Includes all attachments to the current object
- Tracks the cursor
- Available from the Print View
- Object Editor
- Edit built in attributes
- Edit attached features
- Available from Inspector or by right click.
- Create Palette Buttons for instantiating the current attached features
- Score and Movement Properties Editor
- Edit global properties of the Score
- Edit global properties of the Movement
- Switch between movements to edit properties
- Create Palette Buttons for instantiating the current score or movement property
- Staff and Voice Properties Editor
- Edit global properties of the Staff
- Edit global properties of the Voice
- Create Palette Buttons for instantiating the current staff or voice property
- Search and Replace
- Search for rhythmic patterns
- Edit at found pattern and continue
- Search for note sequences
- Wrap to staff start/next staff
- Resume search
- Score Layout Editor
- Duplicate Movements with separate edits
- Re-order Movements
- Duplicate Staffs with separate edits
- Staffs can be added from any movement into any other
- Titles
- Control of bold, italic and fontsize
- Control of spacing
- Comprehensive set of fields to set
- Beaming Rules
- Create scorewide beaming rules
- Rules for multiple time signatures
- Regular rules with exceptions done by example.
- Preview of Text/Music/Fret Diagram/Chord Symbol Markup
- Check the appearance before re-typesetting the score
- Notehead Styles
- Complete set of notehead styles
- Set on individual notes or score-wide
- Vertical Spacing Controls
- Complete set of vertical spacing distance settings
- Titles to System
- System to System
- … more
- Improved MIDI output
- Sustain Pedal effect
- Bug Fixes
- MIDI message lengths corrected for custom messages
- User Manual
- Many new sections added