AUTOGRAPH 1.6.1: WHAT'S NEW SECTIONS • Add a player to one section only, such as a trombone solo in one movement. In Score > Sections, tap the section and choose Add a Part to This Section. The part is left off the page in every other section, and one Undo takes it away again. • Section titles can start over the first bar, as in a book of chorales, as well as centred. Choose in Score Details. MusicXML keeps the choice. COURTESY ACCIDENTALS • When a note comes back in the bar after a different accidental, it gets a reminder accidental. Choose None, Plain or In parentheses in Score Details. • For a single note, choose Notes > Accidental > Courtesy, Courtesy in Parentheses, Hidden or Automatic. • MusicXML and MEI carry them both ways. WRITING • Fill Bar, beside Rest (or Shift-0), finishes the bar with real rests, including inside an unfinished triplet. Before, the grey rests of a short bar were only drawn, so the bar exported short. • The Beam menu is on the bottom bar, beside Grace. • In Re-pitch Mode, each head of a quick Pencil pass re-pitches the note it is drawn on, and heads written one above another make a chord. • In Re-pitch Mode, a rest silences the next note at that note's own length. FIGURED BASS • Hold one line of a figure while another changes: 6 4 with the 4 held, then 5;_, is the 6 falling to 5 over the held 4. Playback hears it. • -;-;- under a note holds each line of the stack as a separate line. _ on its own still holds the whole stack as one line. • A held line now runs under exactly the notes it holds, ending just past the last one, so it no longer reaches the next figure. It is one unbroken line across a barline. • 6_ holds the 6 over the next note. Each further _ holds it one note more. • The option to draw held figures as a dash under each note has been removed. Scores that used it now draw lines. THE AI ASSISTANT (MAC) • The assistant can now write tremolos, on a single note or chord or alternating between two. • It can also move notes to the other staff of a piano part: a whole chord, some of its notes, or a run of bars. • It can attach a dynamic, words or a pedal mark to a particular voice. FIXED • A slur over a leap between two notes now arches instead of drooping off the high note. • A slur over chords goes on the side the stems say. It used to hang under the chords, between the heads and the beam. • Where a slur below one staff meets a slur above the next, the staves move apart so they don't cross, on screen and in the PDF. • Pasting into a bar full of chords now goes in exactly where you put the caret. It could start a note early and write over the chord before it. • The arrow keys now move from chord to chord instead of stopping between the notes of a chord. • Stems and beams of inner voices no longer cross between staves on screen, such as an alto and a tenor in a chorale. • A repeated pattern, like chord, bass, chord, bass, is now beamed flat. • On iPad with a keyboard, words take capitals and question marks, and Shift-letter shortcuts no longer open a field while you type words or chords. • A note tied over a barline no longer prints its accidental again. • Closing a selection with the x on the capsule leaves the caret after the note instead of jumping to bar 1. • A tuplet that starts on a chord no longer closes one note early. • A note added to a chord inside a tuplet is now included in the tuplet's bracket. • Triplets of chords no longer end up nested one inside the other. • A grace note written inside a tuplet no longer takes up the tuplet's room. • In MEI export, a tuplet ending on a chord now closes correctly.

More piano support Fix bugs related to note selection and pencil recognition.

AUTOGRAPH 1.5.4: WHAT'S NEW HAIRPINS - Draw a crescendo or diminuendo under any notes. Select them, then choose Crescendo or Diminuendo from Hairpin in the Notes menu. On iPad the Notes menu is under the Write button; on the Mac it's in the menu bar and on right-click. - Choose None to take one off. The menu ticks the kind under the selected notes. - For a swell, put a crescendo on the first notes and a diminuendo on the rest. - Hairpins don't change the playback volume yet. FIXED - Dynamics, hairpins and words above or below the staff now move clear of high and low notes, grace notes, staccatos and slurs instead of printing through them. - Dynamics and hairpins on a staff line up level across each line of music, so a p, a crescendo and the f it reaches read as one line. - On iPad, the message about selected notes now sits above the accidentals and navigation panels instead of running underneath them. - Figured bass sits under its note wherever the bass is written. It used to drift to the left when the bass line was in a voice other than the first. - Chord symbols line up with the notes in the same case.

MENUS • The menus are grouped by what they act on. Write is for what you type at the caret and the writing modes, Notes for the selected notes, Bar for clef, key, time, barlines, repeats and adding bars, and Score for staves, sections, lines and pages. • On iPad the toolbar keeps its familiar buttons: Write holds Notes and Edit, Structure holds Bar and Score, and More holds View. • The Mac menu bar, the iPad toolbar and Mac right-click now show the same items in the same places. SECTIONS • Add a Section Before This One and Add a Section After This One add a new section of empty bars without moving any music. The new section carries on the key, time signature, clefs and instruments of the one before it. • Start a Section at This Bar (formerly Start a Section Here) still splits the music at the caret. • In Score > Sections…, Add a Section adds one at the end, and each section's page sets its subtitle and the number printed in the margin. • Go to Bar lists the sections by name, with a tick on the one you're in. Tap one to go to its first bar. ON THE MAC • Detach the controls, the accidentals or the navigation into floating palettes, using the View menu. They can go anywhere, including on a second display, and stay where you put them between launches. Drag a palette by its grip, and right-click the grip and choose Put Back in the Window to return it. • The keyboard and MIDI keep going to the music while you use a palette. •accidentals are back in the bar, between the navigation and Grace. ON THE iPAD • View > Navigation in Its Own Panel moves the arrows and the bar number out of the bar into a panel over the music, so in portrait the whole bar fits on screen. • Drag the panels to any corner. If you drop one on another's corner, they swap. FIXED • On the Mac, ⌥⌘I now turns on Insert mode, not Re-pitch mode. • ⌘B (Insert Bar After) now appears in the Mac menu bar.

SECTIONS • What were called movements are now sections, so a book of chorales, a mass or a set of exercises fits as naturally as a sonata. • Structure > Sections… lists every section: rename, reorder or delete them. A section moves with its own key, time signature, clefs and instruments. • A part can change instrument for one section, such as clarinet in B-flat for one and clarinet in A for the next. The name, key signature and playback all follow, and MusicXML and MEI carry the change. • Take a part off a whole section, such as no trumpets in the slow movement, and bring it back with one menu item. • Export Some Sections… sends only the sections you choose to PDF, MusicXML or MEI. • Go to Bar counts within the section you are in, and 2:5 goes to bar 5 of the second section. • Add a Line Before and Add a Line After add a whole line of empty bars. ORNAMENTS • An Ornament menu: trill, trill with its wavy line, mordents and turns, on the press-and-hold palette, the Write menu, Mac right-click and the Mac menu bar. TEXT • Bold and italic words: press B or I in the text box, or put stars around the words as in Markdown. • Italic words inside a verse of lyrics: type a star before and after the word. • Words at the start of a bar begin at the barline, or over the clef at the start of a line, for headings such as PRIMA PARS. FIGURED BASS • Held figures can be drawn as a short dash under each note, as older editions print them. Choose it in Score Details. • In Write Figured Bass, the arrows also stop on half beats and wherever any staff has a new note, so a figure can change partway through a held bass note. • 7;# writes 7 over a sharp, and a sign typed after a figure stays on that figure's line. WRITING • In re-pitch mode on iPad, write a note with the Pencil on top of any note to give it the new pitch, even if it is not the next one. LOOKS • Dynamics are a little smaller and centred under their note, so a wide mark no longer runs into the next one. • Figures are centred on their note's own head, including whole notes and chords. • Slurs go outside the staccatos and accents at their ends, and outside a tie they end on. • A slur over a moderate leap no longer draws as a straight diagonal. • Two voices on the same note, one stem up and one stem down, sit with their stems back to back. • A lyric held across a moderate gap gets a single dash instead of a chain. FIXED • Selecting a slur from its first note to its last changes only that slur, not the one before it.

FIGURED BASS • Write figures under a bass line: press Shift-B, or choose Write > Figured Bass, type the figure and press Enter. • Structure > Write Figured Bass figures a whole line note by note, the way Write Chords does: space moves to the next note, tab to the next bar. • Everything a continuo part needs: stacks, sharps, flats and naturals, the slashed 6, the crossed 4, figures above 9, and two or three figures sharing one long note. • Hold a figure with a line while the bass moves, the whole stack or just one line of it, across barlines and onto the next system. • On iPad without a keyboard, a figure keyboard has the digits, the signs and the common stacks. • Choose the size of the figures in Score Details. • Hear the figures as held chords on harpsichord, organ or piano: turn on Play the figured bass in Seen and Heard. They are silent until you do. • Figures are printed, and travel in MusicXML and MEI with their lines. Figures in MEI files of Baroque music open as figured bass. TITLES AND TEXT • A subtitle under the title, and under each movement's title. • Heading styles: choose the font, size, bold, italic and capitals for the title, subtitles, movement titles and more, once for the whole score. • An introduction before the music, for a preface or notes on the edition, in a column as wide or as narrow as you like. • Add Text Before This Bar prints a paragraph across the page before a line of music, in one column or two. • Spoken dialogue between numbers, as in an opera, with the speakers' names in a column of their own and stage directions in italic. MOVEMENTS • A number in the margin, such as 102., printed large at the start of a movement, as in a book of chorales. • Run On From the Last Movement lets a short piece start partway along the line where the one before it ends. • A new movement restates its time signature. • Playback plays the movements in turn, with a short pause between them, and repeats stay inside their own movement. EARLY MUSIC • Original clefs before the music: an incipit showing each part's original clef, key and time sign before the first line. LYRICS • A syllable held over several notes gets a chain of dashes, so the eye can follow the word. • Undo takes back a half-typed word first, and backspace inside a hold takes back one note of it. LAYOUT • Start a System Here and Start a Page Here are ticked when the bar already starts one, and choosing them again takes the break off. AI ASSISTANT (MAC) • The assistant can write figured bass, set line and page breaks, start movements, add text before a bar, set the title, introduction and heading styles, and print the original clefs. FIXED • Undo in Write Chords brings the box back to where it was, ready to type again. • MusicXML exported for other programs has unique bar numbers, whole-bar rests and the title, and keeps pieces that run on. • A held syllable carried over a line break is drawn on the new line. • Titles and text are measured at the size they print, so the room left for them on screen matches the page.

PAGES • Landscape pages, for organ music and anything wide: every paper size can be turned sideways in Score Details, under Page. • Note spacing: Tight, Normal, Generous or Very Generous, for how much room the notes get across the page. • Zoom out far enough to see a whole system of a full score at once, then zoom back in to edit. WRITING • Re-pitch Mode: keep a rhythm and enter new pitches straight through it, from the keyboard, the Pencil or a tap. Rests are skipped and ties carried. • Write a note between two rests, and it goes between them. • A note written on a rest that is too short for it takes the rest's place. • The dash takes a dot off a note. • Removing a clef change is one step, and Structure > Clef is the one place for clefs. • Played By is in the note palette on iPad, under Player. • Rest sits beside the durations in the bottom bar, where it is always in reach. • When a bar is full, the message says which bar, and that Insert Mode will push the notes along. • Typing c or cut for a time signature gives the common-time and cut-time signs. MIDI KEYBOARDS • Notes are spelled in the key you are in: C sharp in D minor, and D followed by the key below it is C sharp, not D flat. • The page follows as you play, onto the next system. • A rest key that bounces writes one rest, not two. FINDING YOUR PLACE • The page follows playback. • Play after a pause starts from the caret if you have moved it. • Go to Bar opens on the bar you are in, ready to type, and brings the page to the bar even if you have scrolled away. • Writing with the Pencil no longer sends the page back to the caret. FASTER • Editing a large score is up to five times quicker. FILES • MEI files bring in changes of metre between sections, and transposing instruments are read correctly. MOVEMENTS • A score can hold several movements: a Requiem's Introit and Dies irae, or the exercises of a study book. Structure > Start a Movement Here begins one on a new line, with its title above it and its bars numbered from 1 again. • Leave the title empty for a movement with nothing printed above it. • Each movement can open with its own pickup bar. • Movements travel in MusicXML and MEI, and files from other programs that number each movement from 1 open as movements. PARTS • Export > Export Part PDF prints any player's part, or All Parts in one PDF, each starting on a new page. • A part has the title and composer at the top and the player's name at the top left. • Long rests collapse into one bar with the count above it, breaking wherever a rehearsal mark, tempo or sign needs to be seen. • Choose Parts prints some of the players together on the same systems, such as soprano and alto without tenor and bass, on the paper and at the staff size you choose, without changing the score. • A part is made from the score each time, so it always matches. WRITING • Flat, natural and sharp float in a small panel over the music, always in reach. Drag it by its handle: to either side on iPad, anywhere on a Mac. • Delete sits beside Rest in the bottom bar, where it is always in reach. • Go to Bar stays in the bottom bar while a note is selected. FIXED • A PDF no longer prints the grey rests that fill out an unfinished bar on screen. The bar prints with its notes and blank space after them; an empty bar still prints its whole rest.

Ask Autograph. Press ⌘K, or open the Ask box, and ask how to do something in your own words. It answers from the handbook and takes you to the right section. Siri and Shortcuts. Say "go to bar 40", or ask for the cello's next entrance or the flute solo. You can also move notes up or down in the key, add instruments and more, all hands-free. Fold empty staves. Hide the staves that have nothing to play on screen, so a big score fits on the iPad. Writing music - A run of notes carries on across the barline. - Grace notes are placed properly, get room of their own, and slur to their main note. - Tenor clef: treble with an 8 below. - A MIDI key, pad or pedal of your choice can write rests. - With a keyboard, Space plays and pauses, and 0 or R writes a rest. - Taps and pencil marks on a transposing instrument's staff are read in that staff's key. Words - Hyphens sit evenly between syllables, however many notes are in between, and a word broken at the end of a line keeps its hyphen. - Lines for held syllables show reliably, and the keyboard stays up while you write words or chord symbols. - Spacing stays even under words. Engraving - Slurs are cleaner: they stay clear of noteheads and accidentals, and steep slurs lift off b - Beams slant with a cli - Systems sit further ap them. AUTOGRAPH 1.2 — WHAT'S NEW PAGES • Choose your paper: Letter, A4, Octavo or Concert, in Score Details ▸ Page. Lines and pages break on screen exactly as they will print. • Choose your staff size, from Large down to Full score and the new Miniature, for dense orchestral pages. At Miniature on Concert paper, two systems of a dozen staves share a page. • Printed staves sit closer together, opening up only where the notes reach between them, so full scores fit far more to a page. • Start a page anywhere: Start a Page Here, and Let the Page Run On to undo it. • See where the pages turn while you edit: a marker shows each page turn in the score. • The PDF now prints the part names beside each line. INSTRUMENTS AND CLEFS • Played By: give a passage to another instrument inside a staff, such as the trombones in the choir staves of Mozart's Requiem. It plays back with that instrument's sound, its name is printed where it begins and TUTTI where the staff's own voice returns. • Number them: Tbn. I, II and III, from Played By ▸ Part. • Change clef in the middle of a bar: put the caret where the change happens and choose the clef. • ⇧C now lists every clef to pick from, including the treble with an 8 below for tenors (or type treble8). FILES • MusicXML and MEI carry page size, page breaks and mid-bar clefs both ways; MusicXML also carries who plays which notes. • A score saved by a newer version of Autograph now says so, and that the file is fine, instead of "could not be read". Playback highlights only the staves you're hearing. MusicXML now brings in kges in the middle of a piece. Plus many smaller fixes.