Most users will want to download the sibmei-4.2.0.zip file attached below and install using the Official Sibelius Instructions based on your operating system.
For users
- Fixed severe long-standing tuplet export bug (#74)
- Abandon usage of
<tupletSpan> - Export colored lyrics, clefs, fermatas, and lines
- Export visibility of clefs and time signatures
- Support lyric elisions with a space between the syllables
- More robust export of references to metadata variables within text items
- Export more details for time signatures, specifically compound time signatures (like "2+3/4")
- Some cleanup in the export (avoid empty
<mdiv>and redundant<scoreDef>elements) - Fixed some export issues that did not follow the schema (e.g. for
<anchoredText>) - Improved
<staffGrp>export, including brackets/braces, information about bar line extents, and multi-staff instruments - Proper assignment of staff and instrument labels, preserving formatting in labels
- Export small staff size
- Write XML processing instructions for more effective schema validation
- Write clef changes to all layers (using
@sameasto link them together) - Support more bar line types
- Improvements to stability
- Significant performance improvements
For extension developers
- Add ability for custom line and lyric export in extensions
- Custom text export can now be defined using templates
For Sibmei developers
There have been important updates to the development infrastructure:
- JavaScript dependencies have been reduced to a minimum
- gulp and the ManuScript compiler by tido have been dropped in favour of a custom compiler
- Tests can now be written in the form of XPath expressions in Sibelius test scores
Sponsors
Sibmei needs funding to be improved. This release was supported by Clefer, the Ricercar Lab at the Université de Tours and Notengrafik Berlin GmbH.
Important
This is planned to be the last release to support MEI 4.