Recent changes to Overview

Overview modified by Maja Hartwig

Maja Hartwig — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:58:02 -0000

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+++ v8
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 Overview
 ====

-After first startup you will get an nearly empty application window divided into three different areas:
+After first startup you will get a nearly empty application window divided into three different areas:

 * **Musical Score View** on the left side, containing the **Palette** when MEI code is rendered. The Palette can be closed and opened separately via the white triangle at the top.
 * **Outline View** in the upper right area.
-* **Properties View** in the lower right are.
+* **Properties View** in the lower right area.

-There are also the **Toolbar** in top area and the **Navigator View** hidden by the Properties View, giving access to MEI/Project data.
+There are also the **Toolbar** in the top area and the **Navigator View** hidden by the Properties View, giving access to MEI/Project data.

 [[img src="MEISE_empty_startup.tiff" alt="Empty MEISE window on startup" style="width: 700px;"]]
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@

 ##### Musical Score View #####

-MEISE's central view is the **Musical Score View** together with its **Palette**. As soon as a MEI file is created or opened and edited, musical content will be rendered in this view. MEISE supports viewing  multiple opened MEI files. It is possible to arrange different Musical Score Views via tabs or split screens.
+MEISE's central view is the **Musical Score View** together with its **Palette**. As soon as an MEI file is created or opened and edited, musical content will be rendered in this view. MEISE supports viewing  multiple opened MEI files. It is possible to arrange different Musical Score Views via tabs or split screens.

 [[img src="MEISE_splitscreen.tiff" alt="MEISE" style="width: 700px;"]]

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@

 ##### Properties View #####

-The **Properties View** gives access to the attributes and attribute values of an element highlighted in the Editor View respectively in the Outline View. Clicking on an attribute within the Properties-table allows to change attribute values, (depending on MEI standards) either by providing a pop-up list of allowed values, a cell editor to define multiple values or by adding the data manually. The modifications will be displayed immediately in the Editor View. The properties "Id" and "N" are basic information of each event in the score and are generated automatically. They can't be modified within the Properties View.
+The **Properties View** gives access to the attributes and attribute values of an element highlighted in the Editor View respectively in the Outline View. Clicking on an attribute within the Properties-table allows to change attribute values (depending on MEI standards), either by providing a pop-up list of allowed values, a cell editor to define multiple values or by adding the data manually. The modifications will be displayed immediately in the Editor View. The properties "Id" and "N" are basic information of each event in the score and are generated automatically. They can't be modified within the Properties View.

 ##### Toolbar #####

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 * **Zoom**
 * **Insert measures**
 * **Insert staff definition**
-* **Score Image exmport** makes a screenshot of the current musical score, can be saved as png, jpg or gif.
+* **Score Image export** makes a screenshot of the current musical score, can be saved as png, jpg or gif.
 * **MEI prune-Model** may be used mainly by software developers, for saving the current file as XML with automatically generated ID's and further attributes. The file must be saved as XML-file.
 * **Manage sources** enables to create and edit sources in the current MEI file.

Overview modified by Niko Beer

Niko Beer — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:10:39 -0000

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-First steps
+Overview
 ====
-
-#### Overview ####

 After first startup you will get an nearly empty application window divided into three different areas:

@@ -9,7 +7,7 @@
 * **Outline View** in the upper right area.
 * **Properties View** in the lower right are.

-There are also the **Toolbar** in upper area and the **Navigator View** hidden by the Properties View, giving access to MEI/Project data.
+There are also the **Toolbar** in top area and the **Navigator View** hidden by the Properties View, giving access to MEI/Project data.

 [[img src="MEISE_empty_startup.tiff" alt="Empty MEISE window on startup" style="width: 700px;"]]

First steps modified by Niko Beer

Niko Beer — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:01:00 -0000

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 * **Events** category: This range represents the basic features of music notation.
 * **Variants** category: The "app" (apparatus) element may be used to accommodate textual variation at nearly any point in a musical text. It is used for differentiation of the musical content of multiple sources, therefore the "rdg" (reading)-child element is required. MEISE is the first music notation tool which provides this important application for musicological use.
 * **Additions** category: These events are normally placed inside the measure after the encoding of staves and notes and represent e.g. slurs, ties and articulation symbols.
+
+##### Outline View #####
+
+The **Outline View** facilitates navigation in MEI documents by providing an overview of the document's tree-structure. All elements are listed in the Outline View and by clicking on an element, the event will be marked in the Editor View in blue color. By right-clicking on an element within the Outline View, a context menu will open with those child-elements which are allowed for insertion at this place, e.g. notes within beams, depending on the position within the MEI tree.
+
+Another way to add events into the score is to right-click on a measure within the Score View and choose an element. The new object's representation will appear in the rendering as well as in the Outline View. Every time an element (Measure, Note, Rest, Beam, Tie, Slur etc.) in the Outline View is selected via left-clicking, the corresponding element in the Score View will be highlighted in blue.
+
+##### Properties View #####
+
+The **Properties View** gives access to the attributes and attribute values of an element highlighted in the Editor View respectively in the Outline View. Clicking on an attribute within the Properties-table allows to change attribute values, (depending on MEI standards) either by providing a pop-up list of allowed values, a cell editor to define multiple values or by adding the data manually. The modifications will be displayed immediately in the Editor View. The properties "Id" and "N" are basic information of each event in the score and are generated automatically. They can't be modified within the Properties View.
+
+##### Toolbar #####
+
+The **Toolbar** in the top area of the Editor gives access to the following actions: 
+
+* Create a **new file** or **project**.
+* **Print** of the musical Score, in case of variant readings, the selected source will be printed.
+* **Using external tools** allows to configure another software for e.g. further tools, where the file could be modified in any way.
+* **Search** enables searching for text in several files, saved in the project-directories, results will be presented beside the Properties View in a Search Result View)
+* **Last Edit Location**
+* **Last opened file**
+* **Zoom**
+* **Insert measures**
+* **Insert staff definition**
+* **Score Image exmport** makes a screenshot of the current musical score, can be saved as png, jpg or gif.
+* **MEI prune-Model** may be used mainly by software developers, for saving the current file as XML with automatically generated ID's and further attributes. The file must be saved as XML-file.
+* **Manage sources** enables to create and edit sources in the current MEI file.
+
+

First steps modified by Niko Beer

Niko Beer — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:53:59 -0000

--- v4
+++ v5
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 * **Outline View** in the upper right area.
 * **Properties View** in the lower right are.

-There is also then **Navigator View** hidden by the Properties View, giving access to MEI/Project data.
+There are also the **Toolbar** in upper area and the **Navigator View** hidden by the Properties View, giving access to MEI/Project data.

 [[img src="MEISE_empty_startup.tiff" alt="Empty MEISE window on startup" style="width: 700px;"]]
@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@

 ##### Musical Score View #####

-MEISE's central view is the **Musical Score View** together with its **Palette**. As soon as a MEI file is created or opened and edited, the musical content will be rendered in this view. MEISE supports simultaneously viewing of multiple opened MEI files. It is possible to arrange different Musical Score Views via tabs or split screens.
+MEISE's central view is the **Musical Score View** together with its **Palette**. As soon as a MEI file is created or opened and edited, musical content will be rendered in this view. MEISE supports viewing  multiple opened MEI files. It is possible to arrange different Musical Score Views via tabs or split screens.

 [[img src="MEISE_splitscreen.tiff" alt="MEISE" style="width: 700px;"]]
+
+
+##### Palette #####
+
+All graphically supported MEI elements are listed in categories and accessible via the **Palette**. The items within this Palette serve as the main editing facilities as they are dragable to the Outline View. The order of elements within the Palette reflects the hierarchical MEI-structure:
+
+* **Select**-button: enables the navigation to every position within the Score View.
+* **Staves** category: The creation of staves implies the encoding of logical characteristics for each staff. The definitions contain meta-information such as the clef's pitch, key signature, labels and time signature. The order of the staffGrp elements within the scoreDef and the order of staffDef elements inside the staffGrp determine the score order of the MEI file. The appropriate attributes and values for these containers in MEISE can be added in the Properties View.
+* **Containers** category: The group of elements within this range are such important ones, which act as containers for further events. The *section*, *measure*, *staff* and *layer* elements could be used for organizing the file, depending on the notation style of the source material and the encoder's needs. The default organization in MEI is the measure-by-measure one, with staff and layer sub-elements. Creating a score with Meise pursues this approach, which is demonstrated in the Outline View.
+* **Events** category: This range represents the basic features of music notation.
+* **Variants** category: The "app" (apparatus) element may be used to accommodate textual variation at nearly any point in a musical text. It is used for differentiation of the musical content of multiple sources, therefore the "rdg" (reading)-child element is required. MEISE is the first music notation tool which provides this important application for musicological use.
+* **Additions** category: These events are normally placed inside the measure after the encoding of staves and notes and represent e.g. slurs, ties and articulation symbols.

First steps modified by Niko Beer

Niko Beer — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:30:41 -0000

--- v3
+++ v4
@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
 First steps
 ====

-After startup you will firstly get an nearly empty application window divided in three different areas.
-[[img src=MEISE_empty_startup.tiff alt="Empty MEISE window on startup" =250]]
+#### Overview ####
+
+After first startup you will get an nearly empty application window divided into three different areas:
+
+* **Musical Score View** on the left side, containing the **Palette** when MEI code is rendered. The Palette can be closed and opened separately via the white triangle at the top.
+* **Outline View** in the upper right area.
+* **Properties View** in the lower right are.
+
+There is also then **Navigator View** hidden by the Properties View, giving access to MEI/Project data.
+
+
+[[img src="MEISE_empty_startup.tiff" alt="Empty MEISE window on startup" style="width: 700px;"]]
+
+
+##### Musical Score View #####
+
+MEISE's central view is the **Musical Score View** together with its **Palette**. As soon as a MEI file is created or opened and edited, the musical content will be rendered in this view. MEISE supports simultaneously viewing of multiple opened MEI files. It is possible to arrange different Musical Score Views via tabs or split screens.
+
+[[img src="MEISE_splitscreen.tiff" alt="MEISE" style="width: 700px;"]]

First steps modified by Niko Beer

Niko Beer — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:56:55 -0000

--- v2
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 After startup you will firstly get an nearly empty application window divided in three different areas.
-![alternate text](https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/meise/Screenshots/MEISE_empty_startup.png)
-
+[[img src=MEISE_empty_startup.tiff alt="Empty MEISE window on startup" =250]]

First steps modified by Niko Beer

Niko Beer — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:12:39 -0000

--- v1
+++ v2
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
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 After startup you will firstly get an nearly empty application window divided in three different areas.
+![alternate text](https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/meise/Screenshots/MEISE_empty_startup.png)

-

First steps modified by Niko Beer

Niko Beer — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:07:25 -0000

First steps

After startup you will firstly get an nearly empty application window divided in three different areas.