EasyABC Changelog
What's new in EasyABC 1.3.5
Jun 13, 2014- new xml2abc version (by Willem Vree) with improved lyrics support
- alpha/experimental musicxml export (implemented by Willem Vree)
- new nwc2xml version is used
- new abc2abc version is used
- improved typing assistance matching [], {}, ""
- MCM support: incipits and alignment should work
- more reliable automatic insertion of bar symbol
- syntax highlighting of \" inside strings
- added typing assistance: automatic uppercase/lowercase (only at the end of a line)
- an imported file that lacks file extension is assumed to be an abc file
- double-clicking an item in ABC commands reference inserts it into the ABC code
- fixed bug: typing assistance settings weren't saved
- fixed bug: Ctrl+Z after batch import would undo insertion of one tune at a time
New in EasyABC 1.3.4 (Jun 13, 2014)
- More powerful MusicXML import thanks to xml2abc, developed by Willem Vree
- Noteworthy Composer file import (thanks to nwc2xml by James Lee)
- find/replace functionality added
- key-independent ABC code find functionality
- midi to abc conversion (manual) anacrusis support
- auto-scrolling of the music score as the text cursor is moved
- graphical note selection upon click in ABC code editor
- graphical note selection works for all notes in a chord
- halve/double note lengths no longer adds extra space at end
- on OSX files can be dragged to the Dock icon in order to open them
- on OSX the quit menu has moved to the application menu
- midi-to-abc: more legible note duration fractions, eg. C/ instead of C1/2
- new keyboard shortcuts for adding/removing slurs: s or (
- new keyboard shortcuts for adding/removing broken rythms: < and >
- new keyboard shortcut for toggling staccato: .
- graphical note selection now matches text selection more closely
- clicking on a white part of the score moves the text cursor to the closest note
- clicking on a note transfers focus to the ABC editor
- detection of anacrusis when generating incipits is more reliable
- when writing many W:, H: or % lines the prefix is automatically added on the third line
- typing assistance: automatically add note durations upon space key presses
- typing assistance: pressing space when bar is full automatically adds |
- typing assistance: when one of ([{" is pressed )]}" is automatically added.
- Italian translation (by Valerio Pelliccioni)
- work-around for abc2midi's lack of support for \" in text annotations
- experimental MCM support if L: is set to mcm_default
- fixed bug: path to 64-bit version of ghostscript was not detected
- fixed bug: missing space between tunes after sorting
- fixed bug: multi-col incipit generation handled number of rows incorrectly
- fixed bug: too few bars extracted for incipits in tunes with key changes
- fixed bug: copy and paste didn't work just after EasyABC had been started
- fixed bug: first note couldn't be selected by clicking on it
- fixed bug: scrolling the music pane didn't work on some Windows systems
- fixed bug: print and print preview was faulty on OSX
- fixed packaging problem: the Windows version was missing a manifest file
- fixed bug: not thread safe translation function was invoked in updated thread
New in EasyABC 1.3.3 (Mar 26, 2012)
- support for OSX Lion
- danish translation (by Bendix Rodgaard)
- french translation (by Frederic Aupepin)
- detection of most recent ghostscript version was made more reliable
- fixed bug: customized abcm2ps path wasn't used for svg export (reported by Frederic Aupepin)
- fixed bug: clear cache didn't clear temporary midi files
- fixed bug: using the tab key to insert bar symbols didn't work on OSX
- notes and rests can be selected by clicking on them
- incipit index file generation for single-voice tunes (still a bit experimental)
- reduced generation of temporary files which may speed up music update
- support for editing multiple documents at once
- drag and drop to an empty document opens the dropped file instead of importing it
- made it possible to drag and drop multiple files to import them in one go
- removed refresh button from toolbar and added it to the View menu (shortcut key is F5)
- double-clicking on the Play button causes the playback to loop
- if a file starts with �c-2.1 it implies that it's utf-8 encoded
- print preview uses a more sensible default zoom setting on OSX
- new option in the Tools menu to create an index of tune incipits
- new option in the Tools menu to renumber the X: fields
- new option in the Tools menu to sort tunes by one or more fields
- typing X: causes the number to be filled in automatically
- assistance for files that do not contain abc-charset or �c-2.1:
- when saving if they contain extended letters for which utf-8 is needed
- when loading if they have a utf-8 byte order mark