New Format Bar
All property windows appear optionally in a format bar on the right side of
the document window.
Switching of UI Language
On-the-fly switching of UI Language. Hebrew UI Language is included in the
package.
Compound Symbols
Compound Symbols pages may be teared off the Symbol Bar and left open as a
floating toolbar, if frequently used.
Visual Styles
A range of different color schemes for window frames and menus may be chosen.
File Operations, Export and Saving
PDF Creation
For saving a EW document as PDF, you need a postscript printer driver and
Ghostscript (www.ghostscript.com) installed on your system. Access to this
function is through File, Save As PDF...
and Options, PDF Settings...
External Graphic File Formats
New Picture Box. (menu Insert, Box, Image
from File)
Allows the insertion of Bitmap (BMP), Metafile (EMF), JPEG (JPG), TIFF and
Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) graphic files directly into EW Notator.
While EPS graphics display only in low resolution on screen, they will print
on a postscript printer and export to PDF in their full resolution.
Support for EPS images (professional version):
Eps files that are inserted as a graphic image display a tiff or metafile
preview on screen, and print the original high quality postscript information
on a postscript device or on PDF export.
Master Documents
New Master document feature enables printing of several EW documents in one
piece. Page numbers in headers and footers may adjust automatically to fit
into master document page numbering
OLE support
EW Notator will function as a OLE container and OLE server to create compound
documents with other applications.
Viewing
View: Show Codes
Improved "Show Codes" feature.
Invisible Cell Splits will display as a dotted green line.
Dotted green line is always displayed in Cell Properties, Split Cell, when
Split has "None" line style.
Align and advance "Show Codes" display more elegantly.
Align item within a compound EW Symbols displays with a light blue background.
View: Screen Refresh
screen refresh is performed on entire screen, when document contains selected
cells. As a result, changes to extended cell borders, should display correctly
right after the change is performed
New Formatting Options: Symbols
Symbol Library
Improved Symbol Library: New symbols have been added and symbol proportions
have been revised
Symbol Editing: Enhancement
Using the combination shift + arrow keys a compound part within a compound
symbol may be selected separately. Previousy you could only select a simple
item within a compound symbol and then move to the selection of the whole
symbol.
Selecting a compound part e.g. enables to apply the DISTANCE and OFFSET properties
in Symbol Properties, Align, More to a compound part within a symbol. This
feature was previously accessible only by using the script feature.
Symbol Editing: Symbol sizes
Sizing of EW Symbols extended from 1% to 2500% (previously 20% to 255%)
Symbol Editing: Item Align
It is now possible to define one symbol item within a compound EW symbol,
as an align anchor. You access this setting within the Build Symbols dialog,
on the align / size page. When aligning the EW Symbol within the cell (vertically
or horizontally), alignment is performed according to the specified align
item, and not according to the symbols as a whole.
New Formatting Options: Staff
Staff Positioning
Allows alignment of staff to right, left, top or bottom page margin.
The Position page located in Staff Properties dialog also contains distance
between staffs, which was previously located in Staff Borders.
New option for Limb Names: Column Width
Enhanced options for displaying limb names:
Distance between limb name and cell can be set.
Width of group and limb names columns may be optionally set.
New option for Limb Names: Alignment
Limb and Group Names can be aligned differently within the Group and Limb
Name columns.
New option for Limb Names: Braces and Brackets
New options for displaying braces and brackets with group names
Format limbs, Group Names
New option for Limb Names: Entering symbols in limb name column
A regular column containing cells may be created in the region of the limb
names.
To activate this feature, check the "Enable Custom Column" option
in Staff Properties, Limb Names, More.
New option for displaying borders only around limb names, but not around
group names
New option to display group names horizontally (uncheck rotate group names)
Staff Borders and Line Thickness
Thickness of bar line styles (Regular, Medium, Thick) may be modified. Previous
default was a factor of 1, 3 and 6, respectively on the thickness of regular
vertical lines. Distance of bar lines to cell borders may be set individually
for each style
Staff Definitions: Naming
Create Staff and Edit Staff: Staff Definitions may be named
Staff Definition names may be viewed in the new Staff Definition page in the
format bar. (Page Available Staffs).
Staff Definitions: Applying
A right-click with the mouse on Staff Properties, Available Staffs, provides
new editing options for staffs:
Allows a quick-apply of any staff definition in the document to the current
staff.
Allows editing of any staff definition in the document. The changes will be
applied globally to all occurrences of the staff definition in the document.
Edit Staff Dialog: Properties Bar
Edit Staff dialog contains a Properties bar which allows:
to name or rename a staff definition View the usage of a staff defintion throughout
the document.
to control how the changes of a staff are applied to the document. (Apply
to staff section, current staff, All occurrences of the staff)
Text Editing
Text Styles
Text formatting is defined throughout EW Notator document by styles. There
are paragraph and character styles, just as found in word processors like
MS Word or OpenOffice Writer. When applied to rich text in text boxes, styles
behave exactly as in these programs.
Embedding of EW Symbols
Text boxes may now contain EW Symbols. When inserting an EW Symbol in to a
text box, a cell box is automatically created within the text box. The cell
box is sized automatically according to its contents.
Fields
Headers, footers and ordinary rich text boxes support Fields. (Insert menu,
Fields) The date and filename fields are updated automatically. The author
and title fields must be specified in the document description in the following
form:
author=text
title=text
Please replace the word text with your entries.
Boxes
Format Box: Staff Anchor option
Staff Anchor with align Top Staff or Bottom Staff may specify optional distance
to staff.
Format Box: Staff Anchor alignment
New option for aligning boxes on limb name column, if group name column is
present (2nd name column)
Format Box: Keep Ratio
Check Box Keep Ratio in Format Box enables boxes to be resized while preserving
the relationship between box width and height.
Page Formatting
Page styles
Page design is also handled by styles. A page style contains the attributes
of paper size, page margins, and a header and / or footer definition. The
paper size and page margin attributes support inheritance. The header and
footer definition is not affected by parent styles.