1 Title: SipText User Guide Date: January 21, 2004 Document
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1. i SipText Score text editor 1 00 build 000 X File Edit View Keyboard Screen Lyrics Options Help File control 00 Times Roman tir afin Select file s 01 Times Bold tib afin 02 Times Italic tii afin view names NAAA tines Botctatc tibi afin Page control 04 Helvetica hiv afit ShoJO5 Helvetica Bold hvb afm 06 Helvetica Oblique hvo afm 100 OF Helvetica BoldOblique hybo afin 08 Helvetica N arrow hvr afm 09 Helvetica Harrow Bold hnb afm 10 Helvetica Harrow Obliqgue hvno afm 11 Helvetica Harrow BoldObliqgue hvnbo__ afm 12 Palatino Roman por afm 12 13 Palatino Bold pob afm 15 Palatino Boldltalic pobi afin 11 l AvantGarde Book agw afm 12 AvantGarde Dem agd afm 10 19 AvantGarde DemiNblique agdo afin 20 Bookman Light bk afin 4 21 Bookman Lightltalic bki _ afm 3 22 Bookman D emi bkd afin 24 Bookman Detultalic bkdi afm 24 New lenturyochlbk Roman ncr afm g 2 New lenturyschlbk Bold nch afm 26 Newlenturyschlbk Italic nci afm 2 NewCenturyochlbk BoldItalic nchi afm 7 26 Zapilhancery Medimnltalic zcmi af 29 Courier cor afm 30 Courier Bold cob afm E E 31 Courier Oblique coo afin Pal je 32 Courier BoldObhque cobo afm 34 ZapfDineh ate zd afm 32 Optima 37 Optima Oblique 3 38 Optima BoldOblique Close the list by clicking in it 9 3 Documentation The current document is copied to the delivery CD as well as the articles The Cyrillic TimeScore family of fonts and The ScoreCyr Cyrillic font for use in Score in b2. end of syllable 11 dash and extender The selection of the staff shows the notes with their labels As an example we enter the lyrics for the Beethoven song An die ferne Geliebte 5 1 E noo E Tim E We enter some of the text _ 00 fl Auf dem Hu gel sitz ich spa hend After typing these eight syllables note the graphic representation of umlaut characters the Enter will cause the following to appear Since the slash is not in the Cyrillic ScoreCyr font the character may be used interchangeably In ScoreCyr the appear as on the screen though needs to be typed 16 which gives the syllable to be assigned and the first available note To assign this syllable click This or the numbered label of your choice or let SipText assign all remaining syllables across the notes that follow the 99 feature of SCORE With Advance the submenu moves to the next available note To terminate assigning syllables before they run out select Stop Dashes and extenders will be properly placed There is one difference with SCORE you can specify empty syllables such as aaa bbb and this will have the effect of repetitive Advance When the second half of the lyrics line is entered SipText knows that the first was not complete and lets the user continue or if he wants assign the second verse Any invalid action will be properly signaled such as SipText x T There are more syl
3. When there are non displayed staves because the display is vertically insufficient SipText suggests which staff could be the one to show as highest Distance 9 The distance between shown staves is always fixed independent on the SCORE staff distance Code8Par4 or Code8Par10 This distance can be differently set to get more staves on the frame or to get more space between staves to show lyrics Staves are shown as yellow bands of a certain height but when the distance is minimal the height of the band is reduced The height of the band is not proportional to the staff size Move the mouse over a staff to see size instrument and to see if Par7 indicates invisible Show top This button is not shown in the above example To return to the top portion of a display press this button 4 3 2 Ruler A ruler is optionally shown with intervals of ten SCORE positions Press the ruler or use the Screen gt Ruler menu to suppress or recall it With a suppressed ruler there is more vertical space for the SCORE file display 4 3 3 Score file display Since this is a text editor the display is reduced to the elements which matter in text manipulation All elements to properly adjust text horizontally or vertically are present Self explanatory colors are used Moving the mouse over an item reveals the details the user may need to know font actual SCORE encoding parameters width In the above example the blue background indicates a page numbe
4. When the user has specified AFM files for character width computation these files have preference over PSC files individually The PSC files are still necessary since they link the SCORE font number to the font name 3 4 2 Screen size The screen size is dynamically checked at program start It must be at least 800 x 600 for SipText to be able to work while bigger sizes are suggested Best results are currently obtained with a screen size of 1400 x 1050 To find out the size of your screen use Help gt Environment Installation on a system with a 1024 x 768 screen showed that this screen size is still comfortable for working with SipText but smaller sizes are not SipText uses the entire vertical workspace excluding the task bar When the View gt Full Text control frame is set the entire screen width is used To make more space vertically you can hide the taskbar or put the taskbar vertically on the right work with View gt Full Text control frame off 4 The graphical user interface The panel which interfaces with the user has a menu line and three frames File control Page control and Text control At program start File control is visible Once files are selected the other frames become visible The Text control frame can be temporarily made invisible during functions which do not allow simultaneous keyboard input 4 1 Menu line The title bar and menu line are shown here i SipText Score text editor 1 00 build 003
5. centered and aligned again For this reason kerning is the last thing you want to do on a SCORE file It would be so nice if SCORE remembered editing attributes and to have a visible indicator such as in Word to show alignment attributes by just pointing to a text item Some of this is overcome in SipText but this is not an ideal world There are commands for individual kerning and for a set of selected files Those commands on a set of files are controlled by options see 4 1 7 An effect of kerning is that because the display font is usually smaller than the actual character width the result appears cut up Autosize is set as to avoid backgrounds overlaps of text items An example follows Before 0 100 200 WATER A 1 After 0 100 200 Y A TERMUSIC 1 SCORE result WATER MUSIC The following demonstration shows various kerning alignment capabilities as well as both unkerned and kerned text in a SCORE file The font is Times Roman Left aligned text item AVAVAV Right aligned text item AVAVAV Left aligned text item AVAVAV Right aligned text item AVAVAV AVAVAVAVAVAV AVAVAVAVAVAV AVAVAVAVAVAVAVA AVAVAVAVAVAVAVA 18 7 1 Current item Kern to its center The selected item is kerned and the left end of the text is arranged such that the center of the resulting text is the same as the center of the original string 7 2 Current item kern to its Par3 The selected item is kerned keeping the original left po
6. x File Edit View Keyboard Screen Lyrics Options Kerning Help The title bar gives the version and build number Individual menu titles can be disabled if they are momentarily not allowed The various menu options have submenus described here 4 1 1 File Initialize profile erases the user profile and terminates the program At subsequent program start a default profile will be newly created Save saves the file currently being processed Save as saves the file currently being processed under a selectable name and path Only the short type filename 8 3 format is allowed Save and exit saves the file currently being processed and terminates the program Exit terminate the program Note that the termination button in the title bar or Alt F4 shortcut will give the option to save the file currently being processed if any changes were made to it 4 1 2 Edit Copy the text in the input buffer is copied to the clipboard Paste the text in the clipboard is copied to the input buffer Paste Cyrillic the Cyrillic text in the clipboard is copied to the input buffer Horizontal step value used when text items are moved Par3 will be set to the nearest multiple of this value Vertical step value used when text items are moved Par4 will be set to the nearest multiple of this value Center value position used for centering text Initially 100 Left flush value position used for flushing te
7. A a a II a a a A i a E E E 8 ANP EL EO COS ccs E AR 8 AN e a a Mal ga caesar each E A O E O E E N A E a ie 8 J UL AA A IN A A O EEO OMT RN EPSP Ch ae EE T 8 Als V CLUICAL POSICION TO ideas isis EE SAI EE A EA LAA AEREOS EA OREA DASS SEAMOS 8 L S2 A OS 9 IS O Y re AO A O O O E A Ee enna EY 9 43A A O S 10 AA E A O e 10 4A standard Lex CONTO IS ES E E E E AER 10 LIS Ii A o A O 11 4A OMT OLS YS isle he tah Sale atin he ea tsk Ea ee eta alae cat Re aa a hs iil se a da eh eka 11 AAA E A 12 44 37 Pie Icelandic WALES AAA PEA AAC cl a 14 SN A A O abr ERENT ON TEM E EE ere eRe TENE ERC TSE ee TUN aS Tre eee Se TMT ORC 14 ME ASPAS ar AS AAA AAA iia 14 5 2 Update Via SUD AA AAA AAA AN 14 O O A sR de tee ea Nin ces aaa i eh ali aaa a eek eat 15 DA A A ON 15 Plis 15 OE A a a a 15 OLMOS E TAA E A EA E EEA T E OEE E 15 6 1 ENTE SUYOS A AA AA AA ALIS a AR A 15 RN A lyric Saase e eorene ve cmery aprart ere en Vi erence E ome re ntar aera enty Ut a EA Nunn ortr Oren wee nir veer e tO nT oir AA E 16 6 3 Other VCS AMM CIOS s ANA ASAS ASIA Ain 16 TIRE TIMING A A A AAA AA tacit say AAA EEES eld ib ASA AC RA 16 Tel UPN item kern tots CO Oc 18 TL C rrent er kern toits Pats AAA AAA Sidi 18 1 C rrent item KETO CEM A AA AAA A 18 Lis Cu trentitem kernand Husa DOS 18 a AA tates cade E die eran ice dram asset adam ay aessscedasm wy ace EEE 18 7 6 Current item unkern with items MTG laos 18 TA LS ES S A E E E A E E E EE EEEE E EEE E CITT HSOTE R
8. D TO oe ee a A e The left column has diads the right column has the single character to which a diad translates to 4 diad can be any character combination Select an entry from the left column to modify or delete tt The default collection consists of all vowels a e 1 o ul with acute grave circumflex and dieresis the three letters with tilde and the c cedilla All lowercase and uppercase combinations are provided for To reset the definitions to the default collection of diads erase the file SIPTESTA TST and restart SipT ext Add entry Activate diad translation on physical keyboard input e Activate diad translation on screen input 14 The Add entry prompts for the two strings which define a new diad There is no limit to the number of diads Different diads may refer to the same resulting character Note that there are three modes of keyboard input append the cursor is at the right of the text to receive a new character overwrite the cursor is not at the end of the text and a typed character will overwrite an existing one insert the cursor is not at the end of the text and a typed character will be inserted The diad translation only works in append mode 4 4 5 The Icelandic switch There is an internal switch by this name which controls the capability to use Icelandic characters eth 0 D and thorn p P The switch is set when FONTINIT PSC contains the definitions for these characters which
9. OR number missing after underbar so by default the underscore is suppressed The user can force the underscore as a text character by setting this switch It is anyway suggested to use the octal character 137 when an underscore is required as text Allow Latin characters in Cyrillic A Cyrillic font may not have a particular character To let SipText automatically change within a text to a font which does have that character set this option The program will automatically revert to the Cyrillic font and never make adjacent prefixes or terminate an item with a prefix Ampersand replacement Windows is hostile to the ampersand amp character in the input buffer If you need to type it a replacement character needs to be defined Depending on the script you are using there is a number of possibilities to select from Selection of a replacement character annuls the replacing character Using the octal representation of the ampersand 046 avoids the hassle Lyrics settings Tooltips explain the meaning of these fields Note that some are SCORE defaults and should be handled with care when different On screen text options Choose different fonts for screen display While the advantage of a narrow font is that display text fits in the green background which is the proportional text size when Autosize is off the drawback is that it is hard to read Select the font which best fits your purpose With close vertical text the Small Fonts is s
10. RTSOET I 18 A A A A A 18 O O 18 A Windows HOMES onsas eeni ess Stak ane E EE annchwindsccuapsdensia santa E a ETE studs EERE 18 5 2 Eye Score TOMES Ande y DOLLS qua ASADAS sca E AA AA sa E E E 19 G2 dhe TIMES COren a O sunek bak iteroi sd se aoentsSnanuiidiat ebaares sa Ok th actA ea tecnstlreti att ciactess Aieete Cult eas taeitlal 19 PS Ci tacts ser E TON 20 6 3 Other SEP Wiles FOr SMS iS AAA A 21 9 Installation Of PL AA AAA AA AAA EEE SAA cud ib ASA AAA A ACA 21 IMM o e e ee 21 NO 21 9 3 LPOCUMICM CA MOM ASS A AAA e a daub he sau a a ai 22 A Demonstration TINGS eens inne E Cat wad E o A 22 9 5 Eoadins fonts tothe POMAR SAA AAA E E E a a a EE 22 DO BMAP sir AA ANA ARAS AAA E R E a 22 TS MYSTAMATION Seg ent SS O Seid E E Na 23 VO Current TESICUONS s i e eran eae nner a er en mah recat re nea ay nem ere Cee nar Deter eT es er ren gov eto et on eer ern ee ee ney Ce ee enero ree Or ene 23 jb Kael B item oa 0 of oumemen meer Reromenr ene at te a teen reer yee MTRSTEen TT MSI PTES IT Sa Tene ner E rT UrTon Ten seer Ten SeTCres mene en Sn MrT hott 23 ZG aie A O O de a aadcind e E LE 24 1 Introduction SipText is a Windows application developed to manipulate text in SCORE music files In addition to the SCORE text features there are advanced capabilities which make working with text easier and faster than in SCORE itself While the use of this utility is intuitive full benefit will be drawn from reading the user guide The program comes i
11. Title SipText User Guide Date January 21 2004 Document version 1 06 March 17 2004 Program conformity Build 006 Author Jan de Kloe Table of contents jo La uune leit ei nt aya AR AA o O E ner seat we Mieent te Sim mmonr a sty a renres RUN Ramet a a atom Mme nt te Taten ee 2 EOE LEETE EET E EA 2 EDATEA 0Y Aa E D E O 2 3ks HardWare regure Ments CA RA nen o E A E E E E chide E AREE E EEE 3 ESA AAN A A TaESA O SEE a aoe E L aE a Sae DAES 3 3 9 Global SIP S t oS iaa 3 2A WN TG OWS A r A O II aa na a EET 3 A A AE E E EEATT 3 RR 3 de ThesraphicaluserinterfaCer caracas Dali oido aene 4 A males gues toed Maas tty cao S A giana Sas ue ene ate SS A asl ahs celiac Paces san ca ose cctun ates avsanaseet hake 4 A A O AO 4 AT Dee Editoren P P a AE E AE S E cunusion anus svi ten ard E E e host etl tag patucconesn A EAS ia 4 A a 4 AA Keyboar d nss a ii 5 a GSC PCE EE AEE AN 5 AA SO A O q ON 5 RS A A O O O A SAT ROOTED II yO Te RSA nee 5 41 8 A A EN 7 O A ee Rie MOT POSNER Ce OOS POON Og Oe ee EE Meee HERR AEE 7 A2 FIE A O II O II O E A O O ERR tor 7 A A A A A 7 SA A vaste E E EEE aeen A Ai oie eat ete tele een lace taint tanta A E aha E age ea naan leg a 7 PONG Rename eldi nissur O A O ERNEST MSA ROMA TE oe RACED A ee ame RO ar omens 8 AP As Prosress Balceris eneen r enee E tase uneAadees tabs EE O ERA sensed En E EEA E A SE NEET Eeit 8 A IO ey PRCT E E A E A E I AE AE O TCM Re E E a a aaas 8 4 2 6 First Prev Next East AA A
12. a syllable lyrics size and below the staff the submenu has three more options Dash right Dash left and Extender for inclusion of these 7 Kerning Kerning refers to data included in a font that specifies how to adjust the spacing of a specific pair of characters in a font The following example illustrates a word that uses kerning and one with no kerning 17 using the default spacing in the font This example shows pair contraction but in some pairs extra space is inserted WATER with kerning WA TER without kerning For kerning to be supported the extension needs to be licensed The environmental prerequisite for SipText to support kerning is that the Adobe Font Metrics AFM files for the kernable fonts are supplied The kerning and unkerning features for SipText are herewith explained Only horizontal items can be kerned The spacing factor Code16Par5 is not considered Text items with in text font prefixes are allowed by the kerning process SipText combines the capabilities of kerning with centering and alignment It is at this point that a design limitation in SCORE turns out to be significant SCORE allows centering and alignment CT JR but it does not link such attributes to items Every word processor remembers that a text is centered but there is no provision for this in SCORE and the parameter structure does not allow user attributes Whenever a staff is rearranged centered or aligned items belonging to such staff need to be
13. active typed characters overwrite text at the cursor position When active the caption 1s bold Home The cursor is moved to the extreme left of the text in front of the first character This 1s a way to see text which has shifted out on the left End The cursor is moved to the extreme right of the text When beyond the end of the visible part of the buffer the text will be shifted in Del The Del key deletes the character at the cursor Backspace The Backspace key removes the character left of the cursor Horizontal arrows These displace the cursor within the text Enter This terminates input of a text item 12 4 4 4 Keyboard diads It can be time saving when the diacriticals are automatically handled on input SipText has a provision for this There is a default set for the most common diads an example is a for 4 such that by typing the diad the program automatically generates the combination The user may switch on this feature for input via the physical keyboard and or via the screen Also diads may be added by the user and they may be removed To maintain the diads and set the diad translation on or off hit the Keyboard diads button on the option panel This gives rise to the following panel 13 Keyboard diads Return Half cu a E e UD E A me O A o o m a 2 F m Cu w z an o A A arr soa mm Z Oo T a z a ee eO ee ee eee i ee ee ea D a w Ci Dl S i w eee es ee es oe oP e e oe
14. ard English US AllowUnderscore 0 AmpersandReplacement undefined OutlineFont False FullKeyboardPanel False AllowLatinInCyrillic 0 InsertLatinFont _00 UppercaseAsBold False PreferedKeyboardLatin English US PreferedKeyboardCyrillic Russian Lebedev PreferedKeyboardGreek undefined PreferedKeyboardHebrew undefined PreferedKeyboardArabic undefined PreferedScreenLatin Small Fonts PreferedScreenCyrillic Couriere Cyr PreferedScreenGreek undefined PreferedScreenHebrew undefined PreferedScreenArabic undefined InputBufferSize large VerticalLyricsSpace 4 Part 2 VisualBeep 500 GreaterInTimeScore False BreveInTimeScore False BulletInTimeScore False AcuteInTimeScore False BreveInTimeScoreBold False BulletInTimeScoreBold False AcuteInTimeScoreBold False Part 3 HorizontalEditAlignment 1 VerticalEditAlignment 1 ValueCenter 100 24 ValueLeftFlush 0 ValueRiteFlush 200 Autosize False Ruler True TimeScorePreferencel03 True TimeScorePreferencelO0l False SuppressMissingWindowsFontsMessage 0 KernAlignLeft True KernAlignCenter False KernAlignSetting False SplitSeparator ExtenderNoteEnd 3 ExtenderStaffEnd 2 DashLeftSpace 4 VerticalDashoOffset 0 8 VerticalExtenderOffset 0 BigTooltip True ActivateDiadTranslationK 0 ActivateDiadTranslationS 1 PageOnSideDisplacement 3 12 Change history nature of change Finnish keyboard keyboard diads screen size to help big tooltip March 13 2004 Page number center align March 17 2004
15. are also used in Old English nS EPA FA m e e es yen thom p 168 250 florin f Thom B 166 246 currency a The line to be included in FONTINIT PSC is 8 242 eth 8 245 Eth 8 250 thorn 8 246 Thorn and when these definitions are present the characters will appear in the drawn keyboard sacrificing the defaults To see the status of the switch select menu Help gt Environment 5 Text items When a text item is to be modified it needs to be selected Selection can be either immediate or via a submenu Immediate replacement is caused after selection by a left mouse click A submenu with a couple of options can be obtained by selection with the right mouse click 5 1 Immediate update This is simply a left mouse click on the green background of the text item Selection turns the background of the item from green to pink the font and text are moved to the Text frame fields The text in the input buffer gets a red foreground to indicate update mode Press Enter and the selected item is replaced and it gets the green background again Optionally the font can be redefined before replacing the string 5 2 Update via submenu The submenu looks like this after selection with the right mouse click The submenu rolls out right under the selected item or 1f space requires it is offset near the item Most commands are self explanatory Edit ParN allows update of parameters 2 to 11 Note that changing Par2 the size of th
16. arning is given before forcing the user to make a new selection This button has a tooltip which gives the number of files selected and the full path of the first name of the selection When no files are selected the button is disabled 4 2 3 Filename field The current file name is shown here without the path prefix To obtain full details on the file click this field Shown are full path size date and time stamp number of items number of text items and all the fonts number and names encountered in the file as well as the last save timestamp Close the panel to continue 4 2 4 Progress bar Depending on your computer s speed reading a SCORE file takes more or less time as indicated by the progress bar Note that SipText also needs time for sorting the input and drawing it in the Page control frame The keyboard is invisible during this time as it cannot be used Click the bar to see FONTINIT PSC After this view SipText is terminated because the user might have updated it and the changes will influence the next program execution 4 2 5 Score This button calls SCORE When there is a current file this file is opened When the user made updates with SipText the file is saved before showing it with SCORE On exit the current file will be reread by SipText as to make any changes effective 4 2 6 First Prev Next Last Walk through the file selection with these positioning buttons Only those buttons are enabled which are applica
17. assumes a distance set by an option Align extenders Extenders are aligned to the syllable on the left and to the nearest note on the right When there 1s no note on the right 1t assumes a distance from the end of the staff Options control distances 4 1 7 Options Outline font by default the current font prefix has one underscore Set this option to select the outline font indicated by two underscores Setup shows an additional options panel for the setting of keyboard preferences global lyrics definitions display fonts editor options and kerning The close button saves the options in the profile and brings you back to the main SipText frame The Options are shown here Options Keyboard preferences Latin Cyrillic English UE 47 English UE 48 English US Belgian Finnish French Geman Icelandic MNonmegiarn Polish Belarusian Bulgarian Macedonian Russian ETE Russian Cherry Russian Lebedey Russian Standard Russian Student Russian Typewriter Russian Widows CIAO HU MJ R ernina f Left aligned Center aligned Setting aligned Lyrics settings Lyrics size Vertical distance between verses Dash size Vertical dash offset Vertical extender offset Extender note end Extender staff end Space to left dash on first syllable Serbian Ukrainian Phonetic Ukranian Standard DIESE AAA On screen text option Latin Cyrillic 2 Couriere Cur 8 25 Timesse Cyr 8 25 Bulga
18. ble meaning that when you selected one file only there is nothing to walk through and all buttons are disabled 4 2 7 Goto When more than one file is selected you can immediately position to any of these files via a list 4 2 8 New This button is enabled if no files were selected To force this situation press Select file s then cancel the selection When New is enabled and pushed an empty file with a desired number of staves is generated for training purposes 4 3 Page Control Visualization and item manipulation of a SCORE file is in this frame 4 3 1 Vertical positioning This frame is vertically adjusted to the available screen size between the File control frame and the Text control frame For present day screens of 1400 x 1050 the frame is big enough to show an average SCORE file The top has buttons to vertically control the visible window when a music file is too small to be shown entirely Page control Show other staff as highest Show staff 1 as highest Distance The Distance button is always visible the other buttons are only visible when a page is vertically beyond the vertical display size Show other staff as highest Move the window up such that another staff becomes the top Contrary to SCORE SipText fills the display window from the top down the highest text item just under the ruler When the top staff has no text items or a page number the staff is just under the ruler Show staff as highest
19. datory when kerning is used Create a folder with these fonts The basic 35 are on the delivery medium zipped folder FontsScore Install SIP with the standard setup Create the SipBitMaps folder Execution of SipText will tell you where Move the bitmaps from the delivery medium to this folder Assure that you have the Cyrillic PSC file s in the SCORE library These are included assigned to 49 for ScoreCyr and 50 54 for TimeScore on the delivery medium folder FontsScore If you want to use these and the demo files assure that the font numbers match Install the Cyrillic Windows fonts Couriere Cyr and Timesse Cyr 10 Current restrictions The following is a summary of known restrictions which may be lifted in a future version of SipText the character Y cannot be selected as a graphic character built in fonts 90 94 and those above are not supported Outline font is not completely implemented An Undo function is not implemented CODE9 DAT text is not considered Capability to work with character sizes in points independent from staff size remains to be implemented The realization of extensions is controlled by demand and capability 11 The Profile There is no need to set parameters in the profile file SIPTEXT PRO through a text editor as all entries are controlled by the graphical interface The following is a sample profile SipText profile generated 03 17 2004 at 13 57 54 v1 00 build 006 Part 1 Keybo
20. e item is affected when the new staff has a different size Horizontal align moves the text to the nearest multiple of the horizontal step default 1 15 When updated the background of the selected item returns to green and the submenu disappears The move join and split commands are described separately hereafter 5 3 Moving text items A strong feature of SipText is its capability to move text To move a text item it can be selected in two ways Above we have seen the submenu from which the Move command can be selected A shortcut to the same Move command is to select the item with a right mouse click while keeping the Shift key pressed The effect of the Move command is that the background changes to sea blue Then drag the text item to the desired spot and drop it To assign a staff number to the text item drag it over the intended drawn staff Note that the size of the item is immediately influenced by the receiving staff size When you want to move a text such as espressivo to a specific note you can show all notes on a staff as a visual help by clicking the right mouse button on the desired staff Right click again on any staff to make the notes disappear 5 4 Join When two adjacent text items have the same vertical position and are of the same size they can be combined into one text item Select the left item then give the join command Note that horizontal distance is not significant When separated by a dash or extender syllab
21. ed Cyrillic keyboard works with any of these Cyrillic SCORE fonts though practice dictates otherwise work with either TimeScore and keyboard Russian Lebedev or ScoreCyr and keyboard Russian Standard It is however perfectly possible to mix the Cyrillic SCORE fonts in one file or even in one text item 8 2 1 TimeScore This family of fonts is usually input with a Latin keyboard and the keys are based on phonetic or visual resemblance with the Latin alphabet AOBI1e K3HH KIMHOMPCTYPXUYLULLbbIBIIOS ABBPAEK3UAKIMHONPCTY XUYILULIbbIbSION E 20 Select the Russian Lebedev keyboard to be drawn and you can enter characters via the physical keyboard and the drawn keyboard Shown here are the lowercase and uppercase keyboards Russian Lebedey praia tar alinea GAETE ulele p rlo sfelo o 1 1 e o sy m o 7 8 C rx a I i lajeja jrfx ile fo lo Ap eels Erle 9121 mmtje ls FO EY aJe je T E Y AYO UM tp iA E m o rea toa pe njij Alcat znj II 3 A U BIB LH MY The red foreground keys represent characters which cannot be visualized by Windows but these are shown in a large rectangle when the mouse moves over the key The red background keys indicate absence of the characters with octal values 333 334 and 335 breve bullet acute in the selected TimeScore font TimeScore Bold The purple key denotes that the character is existing in the font but it misses the appropriate adaptation i
22. en the project setting is to side even numbers will be put left odd numbers right Side alignment is controlled by the flush values and a constant defined in this displacement field For example the page number 123 will right align to position 196 if the right flush value is 200 and the displacement is 4 The numeric value is interpreted as a string for width computation Code10Par7 is interpreted as Times Roman Italic when 1 Fonts defined in Par7 as 1000 till 1089 are properly interpreted while any other value defaults to Times Roman 4 1 8 Kerning The kerning submenu is explained in chapter 7 4 1 9 Help Narrative shows the help file contents which is approximately identical to the User Guide text without the illustrations Color codes there are two panels explaining the color codes one for the Page control frame and one for the Text control frame Press on either close button to make the panels disappear Environment the pertinent environmental information is provided in a message box an example follows TI x i Environmental settings used by SipText Score FONTINIT PSC For Icelandic OFF SIP Page number place CenterTop Page number font size O 201 1 Bar number Fontisize 1 201 For lyrics settings see Options gt Setup Screen size Top Left Right Bottom 001400 1020 License this provides a message box with the license and installed extensions About a message box 1s shown about au
23. f the physical keyboard and they do not require any explanation The reason for providing the drawn and mouse clickable keyboard is that for some scripts other than Latin such as Cyrillic there is not always a physical keyboard at hand The number of keyboard layouts in the world is impressive and SipText has the built in flexibility to cater for any requirement The first versions support a limited number of keyboards as governed by demand 4 4 1 Standard Text control The English US keyboard is drawn in the following sample of the Text control frame Text control m Times Roman Pare Par Par Park Parb width _00 mM Length aes ae Bat treet L120 Ts Te Testo Erre tere a s i sfefafe falwlelr tly usifoppl ij as al alas ele Pas Peal size als GEOG Peere iaa RTrprRLTIT CAFE The keyboard has the common keys and on the right the keys for the special SCORE characters for which the Windows font used for the keys has graphics black characters or not red characters When the mouse moves over a red foreground character key the graphic is displayed in a large rectangle TM The top status fields are filled when the mouse cursor moves over a text item or when an item is selected The field shown here as having _00 is the font prefix field and has the font number of the text item currently being processed Click this field to select a different font The list of available font
24. g adapt the application to your project or your specific preferences Status information and on line explanation most screen objects have tooltips view crucial environment settings on line help Graphical keyboard in addition to the physical keyboard use the screen keyboard for uncommon characters Alignment and centering of page numbers Keyboard diad translation For kerning the advantage really is that there is no alternative other than mixing SCORE s music output with the features of publishing software Kerning is combined with centering and justification For Cyrillic the advantages are See on the screen what will be in the music file SCORE has no alternative for this Support for several keyboard layouts and fonts Copy and paste with Russian word processors Automatic font change within a text when the ScoreCyr font does not have a specific character to a font which does 3 Environment SipText runs as a Windows application under the main SIP program During the installation process of SIP the necessary links are established to the environment used between SCORE and SIP utilities It uses some of the global settings from this main program and refers to specific external sources from the SCORE and Windows environment The environmental sources are herewith described 3 1 Hardware requirements The development system used is 1 5 GHz and convenient for working with SipText The machine used fo
25. he English US keyboard is selected 4 1 5 Screen Autosize text appears on the screen with a green background The background gives the proportional width in SCORE when this option is off The height of the green band is not proportional When the text is longer than can be contained on this background the user can select a smaller display font or ask SipText to make the background as long as the displayed text with Autosize A check mark indicates that the option is in effect Ruler A simple ruler is shown in the displayed page This ruler can be suppressed to make more space for display by resetting this option The ruler can also be suppressed by clicking on it Refresh The displayed page is drawn again This is useful if you have added text above the top staff and want to see the new layout adjusted to the top or to view the display text in another font Note that the refresh function does not reread the file 4 1 6 Lyrics Align lyrics Attach syllables to the nearest note Par3 will be set to that of the note A displacement is prompted which becomes the offset in Parl 1 default is zero Center lyrics Attach syllables to the nearest note Par3 will be set to that of the note The offset is moved to Parl 1 Center dashes All dashes are put in the middle of the syllables they connect If there is no note on the right it assumes the end of the staff as beginning of a syllable If there is no note on the left 1t
26. ian Standard HERE ele B HU KE H r wms x laje LALIT P LOL A S CO H T O Lo where the pink keys when used automatically change the font prefix in the text for the duration of those Latin characters Exercise extreme care updating strings with in text font changes The button is provided to enter octal values Note that the backslash as such does not exist as a one character encoding in ScoreCyr and you cannot enter the octal prefix via the physical keyboard When followed by three octal digits the is kept as is 8 3 Other SIP utilities for Cyrillic The free utilities in the SIP collection which can come in handy when using Cyrillic fonts are SipFind find SCORE music files with a Cyrillic string of characters The search string is to be pasted into the field TimeScore family of fonts only Case sensitive or insensitive with or without wildcard s whole word or part date range SipAnlib to quickly see which Cyrillic fonts exist in the SCORE environment with their font number SipEdit to change a particular font number in a range of files See the applicable descriptions 9 Installation of SipText The software is delivered on a CD prepared for standard setup with Windows In addition to the software there are various other files on the installation medium Consult the README TXT file for instructions that did not make it to the User Guide 9 1 Licensing A simple a
27. indows fonts was properly installed and activated which is done after a cold start in Windows98 When not shutdown and restarted after installing Windows fonts the Cyrillic keyboard on the screen will show Latin accented letters The filenames of the Cyrillic Windows fonts are BUARIL TTF Bulgarian Ariel UN125IN TTF ER Univers 1251 FSCOUCY TTF Couriere Cyr FCTIMCY TTF Timesse Cyr Note that the latter two fonts are mandatory for SipText with the Cyrillic extension These files are on the delivery medium folder FontsWindows Check font installation by looking at the Insert gt Symbol panel in Word after selecting the fonts There should not appear squares in stead of Cyrillic characters When there are squares installation failed In that case erase the TTF s then download and install the Cyrillic Starter Kit from Fingertip Software 8 2 Cyrillic Score fonts and keyboards The user must decide which SCORE font to use Currently there are the fonts TimeScore made available by Sergei Lebedev and ScoreCyr used by Matanya Ophee SipText works with both fonts TimeScore consists of a family with bold italic and bold italic variants The TimeScore family is documented in the article The Cyrillic TimeScore family of fonts at www dekloe be and on the installation medium The SCORE fonts need to be assigned a font number of choice Since fonts are selected by name it does not matter to SipText which numbers are assigned In theory any support
28. ined hereafter Note that the Alt key is reserved for its Windows function as letter shortcuts to menus and to terminate with F4 When updating characters which can only be represented in Windows as SCORE diads or triads such as TimeScore lt lt y then be careful editing them When you want to change this character in the TimeScore string a lt lt ya then you need to delete three characters then push insert and then select any character form the physical or the screen keyboard If you would just replace the y by typing a character SipText does not know that it is part of a triad and converts it incorrectly Esc The Esc key clears the input buffer and sets CapsLock to lowercase CapsLock This key selects the equivalent current keyboard in the uppercase setting When set the caption becomes bold Optionally the key caps can be shown in bold as shown here Text control Para P Pars Pard Farh Farb width 00 Mm THIS EXAMPLE SHOWS THE BOLD CAPSLOCK Lewes Be ae English US Esc CapsLock SEO Ona GAE ATETETATETE ETE 1 1 40 0 0 0 Backspace Ee Ea MI ee ee AJS D F G H J K L H End e E CPST DT po A shift character can be input when the drawn keyboard 1s in lowercase The Shift is only active on physical keyboard letters Insert Characters typed are inserted at the cursor location those on the right of the cursor shifting to the right The cursor does not move When Insert is not
29. lables 15 than available lyrics labels 14 Ignore the superfluous syllables Cancel will allow you to edit the text i Cancel When you entered lyrics but forgot to select the staff to get labels and notes the text is put in the top left corner as one item Move 1t somewhere select 1t again then select the staff and hit Enter again 6 2 Updating lyrics Individual syllables can be updated as text items but it is possible to update an entire lyrics line After selecting the lyrics staff click a second time on the staff and another submenu will roll out Edi 1 4 Move up 2 a Move down Delete all Cancel The Edit choice moves the entire line to the input buffer with separators inserted for update Pressing Enter replaces the line as if it were newly entered 6 3 Other lyrics functions As can be seen in the above submenu there is the possibility to delete an entire lyrics line at once including dashes and extenders Moving up and down of entire lyrics lines is per vertical step as defined with the main menu Edit gt Vertical step The main menu s Lyrics offers to align or center all syllables in a file to the nearest note You can also center all dashes and align all extenders in one go To remove individual dashes or extenders select them with the mouse then confirm the delete When selecting a text item with the right mouse button the submenu as shown in 5 2 rolls out When the text is potentially
30. les cannot be joined The join can be used when texts horizontally overlap or to undo kerning on two items 5 5 Split When a text item needs to be split into two items select the item move the separator character where you want to separate and perform the split command The separator character is defined as an option The default 1s an asterisk 5 6 Creating text items Whenever the Text control frame is visible text can be input to create new text items By pressing the Enter key the item is moved to the top left corner of the display page as a move item It is assigned to the top staff Drag it over the desired staff to assign Par2 before dropping it 6 Lyrics Input update and alignment of lyrics works as in SCORE but a number of additional features make the manipulation of lyrics easier and faster Before working with lyrics the user has to assure three things the size of the lyrics text must be defined as a global setting set project options the dash size must be defined in PREF SCR if not the default size of 1 29 is used the space between verses must be defined as a local setting in the Options panel When set to 4 the first verse will be at Par4 4 the second at Par4 8 etc When there 1s already a verse in a file at Par4 5 with a setting of 4 the next will be put at 9 6 1 Entering lyrics Before entering lyrics text select the staff by clicking on it then enter text with SCORE separators
31. n a basic version with two optional extensions The separately priced extensions are support for kerning and for Cyrillic The reader is assumed to be familiar with SCORE and its parameter structure 2 Advantages There are numerous valid arguments for using the text editor Simple to learn all functions are menu driven require only a minimum of keys or mouse clicks while colors are used to distinguish the different items and their status on the screen Copy and paste copy text between SCORE music files and other Windows applications Speed walk through a series of files with one click move text items by drag and drop Proper visualization of typical SCORE combination characters on the screen you see the real graphics for characters such as a for lt lt a a a etc as well as for octal representations Visualization of special SCORE characters which do not have a Windows equivalent graphic Width computation using Adobe Font Metrics AFM or PSC used in centering flushing and lyrics Width computation of octal characters used in centering flushing and lyrics Powerful lyrics entry and edit assigning syllables to notes alignment centering handling of dashes and extenders Screen addressing select items from the screen See the parameters of a text item by just moving the mouse over it Font selection names of fonts are presented for numeric SCORE fonts Profile settin
32. n the FONTINIT PSC file See the article for details The button is provided to enter octal values Note that the backslash as such does not exist as a one character encoding in TimeScore and you cannot enter the octal prefix via the physical keyboard When followed by three octal digits the is kept as is 8 2 2 ScoreCyr This font is used with a Russian Standard keyboard It 1s fully documented in the article The ScoreCyr Cyricllic font for use in Score at www dekloe be and on the installation medium aOBrAe7K3HHKAMHOUpcTy XUAWbbIbSION ABBTAEX3 0 MKAMHOIMNPCTYOXH YI DDIBDIOA The drawn keyboard looks thus lowercase and uppercase Russian Standard pifafjsjsjsioprisjofo fe lm m 5 Ho y x fe ajo fojas x gt H i de jet fafu pefo ju jalo Ql Weems ajufojmjn r jo 6 E lt gt 10 12 ia ie fie XA Russian Standard Ea tel Cp E AJO KLE HIT mms x b BIB A T P O TD KS U C IM H T Fa E As you see some non Russian Cyrillic characters are provided through this keyboard font combination The red background keys are characters missing from the font To make those in a Latin font set the option Allow Latin characters in Cyrillic Then the keyboard will look like this 21 Russian Standard jt 2 13 4 sio 7 8 9 10 pH jo x fe e rju m s xp l i dt E T e aa lo x x fe a alelaja r s 6 Russ
33. oth Word and PDF format 9 4 Demonstration files The following files may be used to test the functionality SIPIVPO1 MUS and SIPIVP02 MUS these come with every SIP delivery OOOCTAL MUS octal values 000 377 in Times Roman 4A9OCTAL MUS octal values 000 377 in ScoreCyr SOOCTAL MUS octal values 000 377 in TimeScore A9CYRTST MUS full character set in ScoreCyr SOCYRTST MUS full character set in TimeScore contains fonts 50 54 To use the latter four files the user needs to equate the font prefix number to his font assignment Only the IVP Installation Verification Procedure files are automatically moved to the SIP directory by the installation procedure SIPIVPO1 MUS and SIPIVP02 MUS The others may be copied from the delivery medium 9 5 Loading fonts to the printer Fonts not belonging to the basic 35 set need to be loaded to the printer with common tools This is outside the functionality of SIP 9 6 Bitmaps Like SCORE SipText has a library of symbols These symbols are used to visualize those characters that do not have a Windows equivalent in a common font After installation of SIP the folder SipBitMaps needs to be created and the bitmaps from the installation medium have to be moved there When at execution SipText does not find these bitmaps it will provide the name of the path where it expects these 25 9 7 Installation sequence Optional when you want to use AFM for the basic 35 fonts and or your own fonts man
34. r Other elements are shown here The grey background indicates a bar number Dashes and the extender are drawn as rectangles slightly oversized so they can be selected by the mouse for deletion These lines appear off center when the Autosize option in effect On staff 6 there is a whole rest in blue The selected display font is Arial Narrow which is a reasonable selection if the lyrics are not too close vertically The disadvantage of this font is that the descenders are invisible The four display selections are given here for comparison Autosize not set Small Fonts MS Sans Serif Arial Narrow Haettenschweiler When one wants to see notes and numbers for lyrics distribution click a staff once Here this is done on staff 6 0 a nu p p Hl E Epp E 10 where it can be seen that numbers are assigned to notes or chords rather The notes themselves are also drawn for the duration of lyrics processing Other display colors will be covered in the paragraphs which describe editing 4 3 4 Screen representation The representation of characters on the screen is only as good as Windows allows When for instance the Cyrillic TimeScore character KO with acute accent is encountered it will be shown without the accent as Windows does not have that combination 4 4 Text control There are many controls in this frame which is visible when the user can input and update text Most of the controls correspond to keys o
35. r product qualification is 1996 vintage with Genuinelntel Pentium of which the speed is 66 6Mhz It has not enough steam for SipText in a production environment The following functions require current day technology advanced file selection when your system has many folders and files reading and writing SCORE files graphic display of a SCORE file For screen requirements see paragraph 3 4 2 3 2 Score environment SipText needs SCORE information specific for the handling of text This information does not require any special preparation but it needs to be present on the same system Note that to view a SCORE file by SCORE there is just one click to give control to that application SipText will not work if SCORE is not installed on the same system SipText refers to PREF SCR from which it picks up the dash size If not defined it assumes the value 1 29 PSC files from which it picks up the available fonts the font names and their character sizes FONTINIT PSC from which it picks up the current Postscript information AFM files optional to get correct and complete character size information Required for kerning The settings are kept in two registry files Systems settings these are kept in SIPCNTRL INI which is created at SIP installation time and maintained by SIP itself The user can view this file by double clicking the Beethoven picture on the main panel In the file SIP keeps the paths to
36. rian Ariel 6 75 ER Univers 1251 8 25 f Small Fonts 6 75 f MS Sans Serf 8 25 Oral Marrow 8 25 Haettenschweiler 9 75 TimeScore preference O isa Be Cos E t1x Keyboard diad Allow underscore as character Allow Latin characters in Cyrillic Switch font Latin 00 Ampersand replacement Jundefined Suppress missing Windows fonts messages Split separator character E Page number on side displacement 3 Close The above options panel has the status of SipText with the Kerning and the Cyrillic extension Without these extensions the particular options are disabled The text for most options is self explanatory while some texts and fields have additional tooltips Keyboard preferences English UK 47 refers to a keyboard with 47 character keys etc Keyboard layouts are described in the Text control chapter Here you select a preferred keyboard for your application When you select a text the keyboard will automatically be set to the one indicated for that script The button Keyboard diads is explained separately see 4 4 4 TimeScore preference R The TimeScore family of fonts has two ways to represent Cyrillic and E in SCORE On input both formats are recognized On output the preference is generated Allow underscore as character The underscore is reserved in SCORE for font prefix When a text has an underscore without a font number following then SCORE gives the error message ERR
37. rillic fonts used by SCORE are TimeScore and ScoreCyr 8 1 Cyrillic Windows fonts To view the contents of music with Cyrillic text and keycaps Windows requires two Cyrillic fonts which can be downloaded from Fingertip Software These fonts are Couriere Cyr and Timesse Cyr Optionally the program can also use the fonts Bulgarian Ariel and ER Univers 1251 Installation of the required fonts must be done prior to installation of SipText These modern Russian alphabets are shown here with an actual screen sample Autosize set gt Fingertip Software Universal City TX at www cyrillic com Download the evaluation copy which remains valid for 45 days You do not need this program just the fonts The fonts remain available once the evaluation period expires The current name of this package is Cyrillic Starter Kit 5 0 19 Couriere Cyr aOBIrOexK3YUNKIMHONPCTYDXUYMILbbIbSWAE ABBI EXK3UMKJIMHONPCTYOXIUIMbbIb AE Timesse Cyr aOBreK3HHKJIMHOMpCcTyMxXUUIMbbIBSIOAE ABBIIIEXK3HUMKJIMHONPCTY XUY bbIbSIOTE Bulgarian Ariel MUCYC Tel SSMEMIeLUe KANAOTO 43 HAC abBr 18 X3UNKNMHONPCTYCpXLIYLULLI bbIb3IO A ABBT DE X3UNKNMHONPCTY XLIYLULL bbIbSIOAE ER Univers 1251 a6Br 1 e x3unvMKJIMHONpcT y0XLU LIL bbIbato Ae ABBT DER3UNWKAMHONPCTY XLYWLbbIbSIOAE To see which Windows font is selected for keycaps point to the space bar and a tooltip gives two font names the intentioned and the actual font name This is a way to check that the W
38. s 1s given by number and name The long white field is the input or keyboard buffer Characters appear in this buffer while they are typed on the keyboard or clicked on the screen keyboard Also when an item is selected from the displayed page it is moved to the input buffer Keys with a colored background have a special meaning as explained by the Help gt Color codes menu and shown here Keyboard color codes Windows has no graphic but when the mouse moves over this key the character will be temporarily shown Character cannot be used The tooltip explains why e a Latin characters allowed in Cyrillic El Input mode FONTINIT FSC defines special language option Updat e mode Character may be used at users own risk Close 11 4 4 2 Full Text control The screen needs to be wider than 800 for the right part of the full keyboard to be shown Note that the size of the frame is also enlarged vertically because it shows two additional buffers The disadvantage of this of course 1s that the Page control frame reduces in size Additional buffers show the text item in Windows encoding and in SCORE encoding When a Cyrillic keyboard 1s active one more buffer shows the transliteration of text items being processed 4 4 3 Control keys Outside the keyboard frame are the control keys Esc CapsLock Insert Home End Del Backspace horizontal arrows and Enter These correspond to the physical keyboard keys Their function is expla
39. sition 7 3 Current item kern to center The selected item is kerned to the center value default 100 7 4 Current item kern and flush right The selected item is kerned and justified to the right default 200 7 5 Current item kern and flush left The selected item is kerned and justified to the left default 0 7 6 Current item unkern with items on right Adjacent text items resulting from an earlier kern are combined into one item Note the difference between Join and Unkern Joining is on two equally horizontal items with any distance in between The Unkern should be given on the leftmost item to re combine all items on the right which are sufficiently close 7 7 Kern selected file s From the Kerning menu select Kern selected file s The program checks if files were selected and if the proper AFM files are available Then it takes each text item and looks if it can be kerned If so it cuts up the text item into multiple text items with the Par3 to reflect the correct position Options control how the result is aligned Alignment options are Left alignment the Par3 of the original item is maintained Center alignment the center of the original item is maintained Setting alignment when the end of the text is at the right flush position default 200 it will right align Any other situation will align to the leftmost position of the original item With the kerning feature when an i
40. sset protection scheme is included SCORE files have the license identification of the owner SipText has the owner s license number included at compile time and verifies that input files have this same identification or the identification of the supplier as to allow sample files to be processed Output files always have the owner s identification When a user reads a SCORE file with Cyrillic text but he does not have the Cyrillic extension license then this file cannot be processed 9 2 AFM files Adobe Font Metrics files exist for the basic 35 fonts In principle the standard PSC files have information obtained from AFM files but experience from various SCORE users indicates that at least the currently available AFM files show differences with the PSC files that come with SCORE AFM information is used to compute the width of text in centering flushing and placement of lyrics dashes and extenders SCORE only obtains metrics information from its PSC files SipText however will first see 1f the relevant AFM information is present and use it as it seems to be more complete and accurate than the default PSC files Only when no AFM file is present for a font will SipText establish metrics from PSC s When kerning is used the presence of AFM files 1s mandatory since these define kerning pairs To see that the files are indeed installed click the font prefix field in the Text control frame 22
41. tem is selected an additional option rolls out Kern on or Kern off By default all text items are on but the user may select to make an item unkernable by setting it off The off status is kept in the text item by setting Codel6Par9 to 360 In fact this is a SipText attribute in the SCORE rotation parameter without SCORE knowing this After a kern run the first selected result file is shown 7 8 Unkern selected file s Once you have kerned but an item needs to be moved or deleted it is not handy to address the individual chunks of a text Therefore SipText has the Unkern command which does the inverse However there is no way to know what the original Par3 was before kerning so the leftmost text chunk defines the new Par3 Unkerning only happens on adjacent items which have the same Par2 Par4 Par6 and the same font This feature does not refer to AFM files Following an unkern run the first selected result file is shown Autosize is reset by this command Note that the Unkern selected file s command is available without the kerning extension 8 Cyrillic For Cyrillic to be supported the extension needs to be licensed Everything which is possible in SipText with Latin script is also possible with Cyrillic With the Cyrillic extension there are extra features documented here SipText itself only uses Windows Cyrillic fonts which can be freely obtained from the Internet The supported Cy
42. the SCORE environment and Windows entities Global settings these are initialized the first time SIP is called and maintained by the user via the button Set project options To see the file SIPPROJ PRO which keeps these settings push the small button on the right Note that you can also view and maintain PREF SCR from this panel 3 3 Global SIP settings The common program for all SIP utilities defines a number of settings of which some are passed to SipText These are Initial folder for file selection this speeds up file selection within one project Preferred filename extension of SCORE files usually MUS or PAG Page number placement this allows centering alignment of page numbers by clicking on them Page number font and size page numbers are shown on the screen but they must be recognizable as such Bar number font and size bar numbers are shown on the screen but they must be recognizable as such Lyrics text size used to distinguish potential lyrics text from other text Note that the font in this panel is not used by SipText 3 4 Windows settings 3 4 1 Fonts The user needs Windows fonts for visualization Some fonts are mandatory and some are optional The presence of these fonts is checked dynamically but only the most common ones present in all Windows systems are used by SipText Installation instructions provide details on required and optional fonts for the Cyrillic extension
43. thorship acknowledgements and trademark information The Help gt About mentions two fonts Lazurski Leed Courier which are currently not supported 4 2 File Control This control panel is always visible An example is shown here File control Select flets 2 REDDAMUS See New view names MENA ri Pier New Lat Goto This area may momentarily be overcast with an enlarged tooltip when pointing to a text item while the option Big tooltip is set 4 2 1 Select file s SCORE files are selected via this button You can select one or more files in different ways as indicated by the submenu The various methods have different advantages or disadvantages and depend on the speed of your computer of the number of folders on your system on the Windows configuration etc An attempt is made to provide a range of selection capabilities for all situations When the preferred folder and file suffix were defined as project options the selection is fastest The names of the selected files are put in file NAMES SIP which has the format known by SCORE users Note that there is no restriction in path name length or the use of long file names as there is in DOS 4 2 2 View names To see the contents of the names file press button View names Manipulation of this file is possible at the user s own risk When a selection was made and the selected files were removed or renamed this names file refers to non existing files and a w
44. uggested for Latin script because the green background 1s vertically smaller than for the others In the On screen text options a checkbox is added which can be set to avoid the message which at startup tells you that optional Windows fonts are missing In this panel there is also the definition for a separator character This is used by the Split command Kerning The panel is activated when the kerning extension is installed There are three selections which are tested when kerning is performed on a set of selected files These options are not effective when kerning individual items current item Left aligned Every text item is kerned while the original leftmost position of the text is maintained Center aligned Every text item is kerned and new position of the text item is set such that the middle of the original text item is maintained Setting aligned Every text item is checked against the right alignment value default 200 If the right end coincides with that value the item is kerned with that right end When the end does not coincide it kerns to the original left end An option is foreseen to tell SipText to ignore specific text items for kerning See the Kern on off option as described in chapter 7 7 Page number on side displacement Clicking on a page number will align the number according to the project SIP setting When the project setting is to center the number will be centered to the center value see 4 1 2 Wh
45. xt to the left Initially 0 Right flush value position used for flushing text to the right Initially 200 4 1 3 View Profile views the profile setting for SipText Though discouraged you can make changes to this file When the viewer is closed SipText terminates so that when restarted any changes will be effective To left corner the panel can be moved across the screen When this option is selected it will be positioned in the top left corner Windows fonts provide a table of all Windows fonts on the system in alphabetical order Close this list by a single click on it Uppercase keys as bold in the Text control as keyboard is drawn When Caps lock is selected uppercase keys will appear with a bold font Full Text control frame the Text control frame comes in two sizes Screens wider than 800 can show part or all of the full size frame which has additional non pertinent information to be described later Big tooltip when the display size is hard to read an enlarged tooltip will momentarily appear on top of the panel This tip disappears when the cursor enters the white background A checkmark is set when the option is in effect File Edit View keyboard Screen Lyrics Options kerning Help _O00Lowercase Russian alphabet Page control Distance O 100 200 4 1 4 Keyboard The submenu lists all supported keyboards Yet unsupported keyboards appear disabled When the program is started t
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