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Macros are placeholders for text that should not be hard-coded yet, This way you can use one text on several places.
Macros are primarily used in the header and footer dialog
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$A | |
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$B |
Current filename. |
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$C | |
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$c | |
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$D |
Last modification date |
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$d |
Creation date . |
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$E |
Original author (MusiCAD ID) |
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$e |
Installation directory |
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$F |
Second subtitle. |
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$G |
Information |
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$I |
Instrument-name, (* only in single part view ) |
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$H |
Country. |
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$J |
Year |
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$K |
Number of parts in score. |
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$L |
License (registration name). |
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$M |
MusiCAD. |
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$m | |
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$N |
Number of pages. |
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$P |
Part name; (* only in single part view ). |
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$Q |
MusiCAD version number |
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$R |
Copyright text. |
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$S | |
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$T | |
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$U |
Number of repeats |
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$v |
Play order |
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$V |
Todays's date. |
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$W | |
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$X |
Tuning for transposing instruments (C, Bb, Eb Alt etc.) |
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$x |
Opus number, tracking. |
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$Y |
Style |
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$y |
Part-number (* only in single part view ) |
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$Z |
Source. |
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$z |
Area; further specification of source |
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$# | |
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$? |
Current time. |
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$@ |
Starting tempo. |
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$> |
Skip rest of line if number of pages is smaller than 2. |
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$< |
Skip rest of line of first page. |
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$1 |
Skip rest of line on odd pages. |
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$2 |
Skip rest of line on even pages. |
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$_ |
Conditional space. |
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$, |
Conditional comma. |
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$. |
Conditional dot. |
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$: |
Conditional colon. |
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$+ |
Conditional plus. |
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$- |
Conditional minus. |
Apart from the one-letter macro's it is possible to use a few directories from windows that tend to be language specific and windows-version-specific and even user specific. The actual values are to be found under [Help|Info|Directories] and will be used for default preferences in file locations
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$(PERSONAL) |
C:\My Documents |
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$(MYMUSIC) |
C:\My Documents\My music |
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$(FAVORITES) |
C:\WINDOWS\Favorites |
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$(RECENT) |
C:\WINDOWS\Recent |
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$(MYPICTURES) |
C:\My Documents\My pictures |