User Guide

Chapter 8: Notation and Printing
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This allows you to print all of the songs in a subdirectory with one command. This feature is accessed from the File
| Print Multiple Songs menu item.
You can set options to refine which songs will get printed. For example, you might want to only print songs in a
certain style (e.g. Bossa Novas ), or only songs beginning with letters R to Z, or only songs with melodies.
Before you print out a whole bunch of songs, it is important to set the options that you'd like, as the program will use
the same options for each song. Use the Print Options dialog box. Perhaps you want to print out only the first
chorus of each song, for example. The program will automatically set each song to print out on 1 page if possible.
First, make sure that you are in the correct directory that you want to print. This is
displayed in the [Change Directory] button.
For example, if the box under the [Change Directory] button says “C:\bb” then the songs in C:\bb will be printed. If
you want to print songs in a different subdirectory, then press the [Change Directory] button.
If you want to print all of the songs in a subdirectory, then press the [All Songs]
button. Pressing this button sets the “Start” and “Finish” ranges to start at “ 0 “ (blank)
and finish at “ZZ.” Since song files with names like 8dayweek.mgu will appear before the letter A when sorted
alphabetically, the blank string “ 0” is used instead of the letter A to ensure the inclusion of all songs.
Normally you'll want the “Range of Songs to Print” set to “All Songs,” but if you've already printed out songs from
A to M, and want to resume printing starting at N, you can specify this range N to Z so that you don't have to print
out everything again.
If “Only print songs with melodies” is set then only files that have a melody in them (i.e., song files ending in mg?)
will print.
“Only print songs with style extension of _” is useful if you want to only print out certain styles. For example if you
only want to printout Jazz Swing songs, then you can set this to style 1 which is Jazz Swing. Style 4 is Bossa Nova.
The 24 built-in styles each have a number associated with them. All user styles have a style character of U.
Here are the style #s for the built in styles.
Jazz Swing 1 Heavy Rock D
Country 12/8 2 Miami Sound E
Country 3 Milly Pop F
Bossa 4 Funk G
Ethnic 5 Jazz Waltz 3/4 H
Blues Shuffle 6 Rhumba I
Blues Even 7 Cha Cha J
Waltz (Old) 3/4 8 Bouncy 12/8 K