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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
- --------------
-
- 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
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