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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

 

$A

Arranger

$B

Current filename.

$C

Composer.

$c

Comment text

$D

Last modification date

$d

Creation date .

$E

Original author (MusiCAD ID)

$e

Installation directory

$F

Second subtitle.

$G

Information

$I

Instrument-name, (* only in single part view )

$H

Country.

$J

Year

$K

Number of parts in score.

$L

License (registration name).

$M

MusiCAD.

$m

Mode

$N

Number of pages.

$P

Part name; (* only in single part view ).

$Q

MusiCAD version number

$R

Copyright text.

$S

Subtitle

$T

Title.

$U

Number of repeats

$v

Play order

$V

Todays's date.

$W

Lyricist

$X

Tuning for transposing instruments (C, Bb, Eb Alt etc.)

$x

Opus number, tracking.

$Y

Style

$y

Part-number (* only in single part view )

$Z

Source.

$z

Area; further specification of source

$#

Page-number.

$?

Current time.

$@

Starting tempo.

$>

Skip rest of line if number of pages is smaller than 2.

$<

Skip rest of line of first page.

$1

Skip rest of line on odd pages.

$2

Skip rest of line on even pages.

$_

Conditional space.

$,

Conditional comma.

$.

Conditional dot.

$:

Conditional colon.

$+

Conditional plus.

$-

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

 

$(PERSONAL)

C:\My Documents

$(MYMUSIC)

C:\My Documents\My music

$(FAVORITES)

C:\WINDOWS\Favorites

$(RECENT)

C:\WINDOWS\Recent

$(MYPICTURES)

C:\My Documents\My pictures

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