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A user-facing digest. The full engineering record — every phase, every fix, every probed Verovio behaviour — lives in CHANGELOG.md.

Since 0.0.1

Section titled “Since 0.0.1”

Playback

Section titled “Playback”
  • A score player in page view — ▶ / ⏸ / ⏹, with the sounding note highlighted from the same timeline that drives the audio, and the view scrolling to follow. Playback →
  • Playback follows the form: repeat barlines, volta sets, and one dal-segno or da-capo jump with fine and To Coda. A mid-score D.C. now stops the first pass at the jump instead of running to the end. Repeats and form →
  • Ties, slurs and articulations shape what you hear — a tie chain sounds as one held attack, staccato shortens, slurred and tenuto notes sound full, unmarked notes detach slightly.
  • Tempo and progress: a 0.5×–2× tempo select that applies live, plus a clickable progress bar with an elapsed/total readout.

Notating the form

Section titled “Notating the form”
  • To Coda joined the o cycle, distinguished from the coda sign the way MEI does it — by the mark’s text.
  • Attack intensity on shift + i: sf → sfz → rinf → rfz. Marks →
  • 3/2 joined the meter list.

Editing

Section titled “Editing”
  • Reflection cycle on shift + r: prime → inversion → retrograde → retrograde inversion, over a block, with the rhythm held fixed. Arranging →
  • Tie chains got smarter — tying a note that is already tied extends the chain instead of orphaning the first tie, and untying a link splits it into valid remainders.
  • Cross-staff slurs and hairpins: shift-clicking across staves selects an endpoint pair, which is what those spans need. Selection →
  • One selection model: shift-runs and mouse blocks now drive every action, each action taking the granularity it needs. r toggles repeats from a shift-run; ctrl + c copies a run’s full measure span.
  • Add staff below places the caret on the new staff, ready for entry.

Getting around

Section titled “Getting around”
  • The view follows the caret — keyboard navigation and note entry scroll the caret back into view instead of leaving you hunting for it.
  • Row navigation: Home / End for the row’s start and end, PageUp / PageDown for the previous and next row, and Insert toggling note input both ways. Navigation →

The application

Section titled “The application”
  • A score title editor in the header, which page view actually prints.
  • Toasts for errors, confirmations and refusals — with a × to dismiss, and selectable text so you can copy an error into a report.
  • A dirty marker (*) on tabs, computed from the undo stack, so undoing back to your last save reads as clean again.
  • Dialogs remember the last folder, including the open file… button, which used to bypass the native dialog entirely.
  • Separate QWERTY and AZERTY keymaps with a layout toggle in the shortcut editor, and persisted options — layout and zoom survive restarts. Keyboard reference →
  • macOS fixes: MIDI hot-plug now works (CoreMIDI needs a run loop pumped), and the grey Dock icon is gone — macOS 26 re-themes any icon with transparent corners, so the artwork is opaque edge to edge now.
  • AGPL-3.0-only license, declared in every manifest.

0.0.1 — first release

Section titled “0.0.1 — first release”

The first packaged release: Linux .deb and .AppImage, an app icon, and .mei file association, on top of a feature-complete v1 editor — tiled Verovio rendering, a text-editor caret and selection, reversible commands with byte-identical undo, keyboard and MIDI note entry, copy/paste with the duration validator, context editing, articulations and ornaments, voices, voltas, tuplets, harmony lanes and a rebindable keymap.