What's new in LenMus Phonascus 5.3.1
May 7, 2013
- Full translation to Chinese.
- Changes in exercises to display more messages to guide users.
- Added options to clefs reading exercise for choosing clef and notes range.
- Bug fixes:
- Occasional program termination when moving to another exercise.
- In compare interval exercise the option to start both intervals with same note was not working.
- In interval exercises sometimes an strange error message saying that 'Not possible to generate valid interval' was displayed.
- Button colour was removed as soon as mouse moved over the button.
- Other bug fixes and changes related to exercises.
- Moved to Lomse library version 0.14, as it fixed many bugs.
- Technical changes: Logger class removed and replaced by Lomse logger.
New in LenMus Phonascus 5.2 (Oct 30, 2012)
- Fixed bug #1059064: TheoryHarmony: crash when opening lesson 3.3.
- Fixed bug #1067628: Crash if page change while playing back an score.
- Added German translation (Thanks, Undine Peters).
- "langtool" program for generating and translating books, has been modified to generate books in new xml format with LMD files.
- All eBooks converted to new format.
- Removed irrelevant log messages.
New in LenMus Phonascus 5.1 (Oct 30, 2012)
- New dialog for selecting books.
- Added "Study guide" to help students and explain how this program should be used.
- Improvements in all music reading exercises, that include now a checkbox to turn metronome on/off.
- Added Chinese translation (Thanks, Wenxi Lu!).
- Restored some features, present in previous version 4.2, that were disabled in 5.0:
- General metronome and metronome synchronized with score playback are again operational.
- The solution for compare intervals (ear) exercise displays again the name of the intervals
- Countoff checkbox is again operational in all music reading exercises.
- Fixed bugs in music scores composer, introduced during source code migration to 5.0.
- Fixed bug preventing to display release notes in current language.
- Fixed bug in key sign. identification preventing to display the answer string.
New in LenMus Phonascus 4.2.2 (Mar 22, 2010)
- Critical bug fixed in score renderization that could cause a crash in any score when rendering it.
- Updated Basque translation
New in LenMus Phonascus 4.2.1 (Mar 9, 2010)
- Exercises and eBooks:
- Lessons in eBook TheoryHarmony: Added six lessons on scales, lesson on intervals changed.
- Bug fixes:
- Score layout algorithm has been rewritten from scratch using a test driven approach. A lot of renderization bugs have been fixed. Automated tests now in place for error detection and quality assurance.
- Critical bug fixed: sometimes crash when clicking with mouse at end of last bar.
- Inserting note before barline creates the note at next bar, with incorrect time position.
- LDP parser incorrectly imported real numbers lower than 1.0 and greater than 0.0.
- Clefs bounds incorrectly computed, adding more space than necessary for layout and for selection.
- Translation:
- In order to simplify and reduce work for translators, Langtool, the lenmus tool developed for eBooks translation, has been modified to improve it and to add support to translate also help documentation, release notes, web pages and other documents.
- Also changes to improve program translation by not breaking sentences at certain tags (i.e. emphasis, link, etc); a lot of refactoring to simplify maintenance and addition of more tags. Suport for styles (eBook style, variable footers) introduced.
New in LenMus Phonascus 4.1.1 (Mar 9, 2010)
- Score editor more stable. All known bugs fixed. In case of crash the program recovers the score being edited.
- Data entry using the mouse
- eBook Theory & harmony includes a new chapter on intervals
- Leitner learning methodology is included in some exercises
- Countoff before starting any score play back.
New in LenMus Phonascus 4.0 (Sep 17, 2009)
- Iclusion of a score editor (beta status)
- Change of license to GPL v3+
- Bug fixes
- A welcome page has been added to facilitate access to the different features and to have easily available on startup.
New in LenMus Phonascus 3.6 (Aug 27, 2008)
- A new eBook with theory and exercises on cadences.
- The automatic composer algorithm has been rewritten to take into account harmony rules. Scores in music reading exercises are now 'singable' and takes tonality into account.
- Some errors corrected in Music Reading Level 1 eBook
- French translation has been totally reviewed.
- Some bug fixes and other technical improvements:
- Bug fixed: Occasional crash on Ear Interval exercise.
- Bug fixed: Intervals: theory exercise. No button for 2dim answer.
- Bug fixed: Score symbols bad positioned when no standard screen resolution.
- Bug fixed: Scales identification: ambiguity in answer buttons.
New in LenMus Phonascus 3.5 (Jul 11, 2007)
- A new eMusicBook included: Music Reading level 1
- Playback: added rhythmic accent. Higher volume on stronger beats.
- Replaced MDI user interface by a notebook tabbed interface.
- The lenmus program now includes the Dutch language translation.