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MScrip

Manuscript Printer

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Installation Installation and ini files.

Manuscript Design Dialog (specify distances, line thickness, etc)

Mscrip Author About the author.

Shareware This program is shareware.  Click this for more info.


Manuscript Design Dialog

The manuscript design dialog box allows you to define all the parameters which control the way the staves are printed.

Page size is set from the Print Setup dialog box.  Otherwise all the other options are set from this dialog box.

Distances can be entered in several possible units.

Margins : margins control how close to the edge of the page the lines come.  The bottom margin is of most importance with the fill page buttons.

Space between lines : Distance between lines in a staff.

Space between staves : Distance between staves.  The way this number is used depends on the From top to top and From bottom to top radio buttons.  Clicking the Fill page button next to this entry gives you the space between staves required to put the bottom staff at the bottom margin.

Number of staves : this is, did you guess, how many staves on the page.  Clicking the Fill page button next to this entry gives you the greatest number of staves that can fit on the page.

Width of lines : 0.15 mm seems to be a good value.  0.5 mm is really too wide.  0.05 mm is perhaps on the thin side of things.  You will have to experiment for your printer basically.


Radio buttons:

From top to top/ From bottom to top

The From top to top radio button means the distance is from the top of one staff to the top of the next.

From bottom to top means the distance is from the bottom of one staff to the top of the one below it.  They are just two different ways to measure the same thing, really.


Units

Units can be specified in millimetres, centimetres or

inches.  To do this, type the number followed by:

mm for millimetres

cm for centimetres

in for inches


About the author

As at 1995, I'm a student at the University of Tasmania.  I'm doing second year Engineering, specializing in electrical.  Two of my hobbies are computer programming and music playing of sorts (piano at the moment, thanks to a dinky student model Yamaha in one of the lecture theatres).  I'm attempting to write a few small useful utilities which if you all are generous will earn me a bit of money on the side (though I'll be lucky to ever pay off my computer and the inkjet cartridges which cost more than the average computer game).

Craig McQueen

84 Cascade Road

South Hobart, Tasmania  7004

AUSTRALIA

Internet address:  craig_sm@postoffice.sandybay.utas.edu.au


Shareware

This program is shareware.  Please pay me something if you find this program useful.  $5 would be great, $10 would be wonderful, $1000 would be fantastic but then I'd start to worry about you.  You can pay me proportionate to how much you use this program.  Basically I'd like something though, for my effort!

Postal money orders or cheques are good.  Cash is alright.  Credit card is not supported.

Craig McQueen

84 Cascade Road

South Hobart, Tasmania  7004

AUSTRALIA


Unknown paper size dialog

This dialog appears when the paper size chosen for the printer is "User Defined" or, in some circumstances, if it is a Windows predefined paper type for which this program doesn't know the size.

Whatever the cause, simply enter the paper dimensions when required.


Installation

Copy these files into a directory of your choice:

MSCRIP.EXE

MSCRIP.HLP

The program will create a file MSCRIP.INI in which it saves certain settings.  By default it creates the file in the same directory as the file MSCRIP.EXE.  This should be fine for most people.  However if you like you can move the MSCRIP.INI file to your Windows directory, and Mscrip will find it there.  This is to allow for network installations.