Underground coding dwarves toiling in stalactite-studded stone halls, sitting in front of workstations carved out of the living rock… in fact, this is nothing like the scene you would observe in our development office, which is more like a sunny living room than a cave.  This post is a quick update on what’s going on in our non-cave.

First of all, we’re hard at work finishing MusicXML import, probably the most frequently requested feature addition at the moment.  We are able to bring MusicXML documents into Noteflight already, but we want to do a really good job of testing the process since there are many flavors of MusicXML generated by the various notation programs out there.  Also, the ability to import brings the potential for much longer Noteflight scores, so we need to do a better job of optimizing Noteflight to perform well with larger pieces of music for the import feature to be truly useful.

I’m also pleased to say that we’ve recently completed the implementation of lyrics, dynamics and some new system/staff text features that make it much easier to add expression and performance instructions to scores.  The lyrics layout does what you would expect: longer words affect the note spacing so that the lyrics don’t get squished together, and hyphens are correctly centered in the gap between successive syllables.  We’re even supporting multiple verses.

Other recently added features include hand-tuned stretching/shrinking of measure widths, playback of selected staves only, and better position control over that pesky Object Editing Palette.

We’re hoping to get this to you soon — thanks for being patient!

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