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Philip's Music Scribe - Demonstration Version
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Philip's Music Scribe (PMS) is a RISC OS application for typesetting music. This
demonstration version has certain features disabled:
. No printing or saving of drawfiles is possible.
. No more than 3 pages per piece can be displayed (though it will process
input files of any length).
. Only the first 20 bars of a piece can be played.
PMS operates from input files which the user makes with a text editor or
wordprocessor. It is not therefore an application that you can easily get a
feel for from a demonstration, in the absence of the manual that explains the
input notation. Neverthless, it is hoped that the demonstration input files
supplied with this version will give some indication of what PMS can do.
Installing PMS
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This demo of PMS runs only under RISC OS 3 or greater. It does not run under
RISC OS 2. The !PMS application can be run from any directory. However, before
you do so, you will need to install the music fonts on your machine. These are
supplied in the directory called PMS.
. On a pre-RiscPC machine, copy the !Fonts directory into your top-level
directory, where there should already be a version of !Fonts - this action
will merge the new fonts in with the existing ones. Then double-click on
!Fonts so that RISC OS detects the presence of the new fonts.
. On a RiscPC, double-click on the !Boot icon in the top-level directory. This
causes a window with various configuration icons to open. Double-click on
the fonts icon, causing a font configuration window to open. In this window
there is an icon onto which new fonts can be dragged - drag the PMS !Fonts
directory to this widow. This will copy the PMS fonts and install them in
the system.
The two fonts supplied with this demo are made available only for the purpose
of demonstrating PMS, and must not be used for any other purpose.
Running PMS
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Double-click on the !PMS icon to install PMS on the icon bar. Open the
directory called Scores. Therein are a number of demonstration input files. To
process any of them, simply drag it onto the PMS' quaver icon on the icon bar.
The file will be read in and the first page displayed on the screen. There are
various facilities available from the screen menu for scrolling around and
zooming. Zooming can also be done by dragging a rectangle over the area to be
enlarged. The "Play" item on the window's menu is used to get PMS to play the
music for proof reading. Up to 8 notes can be played at once through the RISC
OS sound system; if you have a MIDI card in your machine, PMS will
automatically default to playing via MIDI, where more than 8 notes can be
played (depending on your MIDI instrument).
The scores were not prepared specially for this demo; they are just files I
happened to have lying around which show of various features of PMS. Here are
some comments on some of them:
Samp00 A hymn, where space is left on the first page for the printed verses
to be inserted. (PMS can't do double-columned text.) Note also that
the number of staves can be changed at any point (second page).
Samp01 This is the simplest sample, and is probably the best input file to
look at first if you want to try to figure out how the input notation
works. Just load it into your favourite editor. It is not very long.
Samp06 A really complicated keyboard reduction.
Samp07-09 These three are modern samples that are making use of some of the
more fancy features of PMS.
Samp10 Invisible bars and stemless notes.
Samp11 This is the only sample that is properly set up for displaying either
as a score or in individual parts. To display one of the parts, go to
the "options=>staves" menu item and enter a number between 1 and 4
and press RETURN. Then re-process the same input file by clicking on
PMS' iconbar icon or selecting "re-read" from the window menu. Note
that although only 3 pages of score are displayed for this sample
(numbered 2-4), the input file in fact defines 8 pages of score, and
PMS does process all of that, so you can get some idea of the speed
for a longer input file. This is also the only sample that contains
multiple movements.
Some further information about PMS is contained in the file PMS-INFO.
PMS is a copyright program; the copyright is held by its author, Philip Hazel.
This demonstration version may be freely copied for the purpose of showing the
capabilities of the program, but not for any other purpose. In any such copies,
the complete set of files must be retained.
Philip Hazel
February 1995