#40 Program won't type vowels (mostly)!
I've been using EasyABC for several years and find it the simplest and best music notation program of several I've tried, especially for generating simple, single-melody-line scores with simple chord symbols for Irish and other traditional music idioms. A few days ago, I started editing a tune and was surprised that letters A, E, H, I, and O don't appear when I type them--upper and lower case alike. I downloaded the current version and installed it; When that didn't work, I uninstalled and reinstalled the program. No improvement. I've grown to depend on this program. None of the alternative comes close to it's functionality for my needs. My laptop's a few years old, so a hardware issue is possible, but the problem seems unique to EasyABC. Any ideas?
I think I stumbled upon the answer: Check your Settings > ABC typing assitance > "Do-re-mi mode (experimental)". If that's turned on, choose the menu item to toggle it off. When I have that turned on, I can't type the letters you mention.
I got that problem some times ago and I think that I got rid of it by resetting the EasyABC parameters, but don't remember exactly.
Ac I just found now this discussion, I checked both on Mac (my main OS - Easy ABC 1.3.7.7. with High Sierra for now) and on Windows (EasyABC 1.3.8 with Win 10) and the same problem on both OS when Do-Re-Mi Mode is activated.
On MacOS, the keyboard shortcut (Cmd + D) doesn't work, but actually it happenned when I set Do-Re-Mi Mode on, but I did'nt make the relation at that time.
But on Windows, the keyboard shortcut "CTRL+D" works, and so, a bad keys stroke can easily be done while writing which can switch that Mode on.