LabanWriter Beta Software

LabanWriter 4.6.1 beta (Last updated 4/15/09)
Changes since last released version:

• Option drag of floorplans was duplicating symbols on floorplan. Fixed. (5.10.07)
• Upper body symbol couldn't be put on score. Fixed (5.10.07)
• Removed limit on high level stripe spacing on turn symbols (5.10.07)
• Counterclockwise rotation of circles fixed (5.11.07)
• Flipping circles without arrowheads now works (5.12.07)
• Fixed a bug when saving rotated text into a PICT(5.16.07)
• Improved drawing of vertical ad libs (6.14.07)
• Fixed bug which didn't allow color on timing ad libs (6.21.07)
• Body area symbols don't move when adding ticks (7.05.07)
• Fixed a bug that accidentally added color to text from LW 4.3 documents (7.27.07)
• Fixed placement of symbols on outside right of the staff when placed just inside the right staff line (7.28.07)
• Fixed reading of rotated text with accents created in 4.5 or lower (8.01.07)
• Fixed aligned text appearing in alignment palette (8.05.07)
• Improved drawing of arrowheads on counter clockwise curves (8.07.07)
• Enabled flipping of Floorplans (9.17.07)
• Fixed vertical flipping of circles and spirals (9.23.07)
• Fixed flipping of captions in floorplans (9.27.07)
• Fixed drawing of ad libs in PICTs (and JPEGs etc.) (9.27.07)
• Added Floorplan exit to pins palette, made boy and girl floorplan symbols rotate in 16ths (10.12.07)
• Added Eighth rest and sixteenth rest symbols to music palette (10.13.07)
• Fixed bug in which deleting ending double barline would shift staff symbols (10.13.07)
• Improved text placement in flipped floorplans (10.21.07)
• improved flipping of spirals, added cmd-shift-F for flip floorplan (11.4.07)
• Fixed tabbing between edit fields in export dialog (11.4.07)
• Fixed start of rotated text that was cut off in JPG format (11.4.07)
• Fixed body areas moving when changing tick type (11.4.07)
• Fixed staff change not able to remove bottom line of staff (11.4.07)
• Fixed problems with rotated text dragged to desktop loosing styles, and reading saved files with rotated text and multiple styles (11.4.07)
• Fixed alignment of small head symbol in columm (11.4.07)
• Removed stage exit symbols (11.4.07)
• Fixed bug in spiral palette controls. Changing to ccw in circle didn't change direction in spiral (12.3.07)
• Fixed edit menu being disabled when opening a new document with text in it. (12.19.07)
• Fixed nasty bug in which deleting one piece off text would delete others (2.10.08)
• Fixed a bug which added extra lines to a score when saving mix-level directions as JPGs (2.11.08)
• Fixed bug that added lines to JPEG involving one square left and right directions. (2.12.08)
• Fix drawing of rotated text in JPEGs, which was clipping the start of some letters. (2.13.08)
• Fixed display of file icons under 10.5 by adding a UTI type for labanwriter scores(2.17.08)
• Changed to Mach-O format binary (3.5.08)
• Now running as a native intel binary (6.30.08)
• Added help menu (lost in intel translation) (7.6.08)
• Rewrote help content using Apple Help Book technology (7.7.08)
• Fixed a couple of Help Book problems(7.8.08)
• Added flipped staff separator (7.9.08)
• LW fonts are now imbeded in the application, no need to install them separately (7.20.08)
• Fix display problems in Preferences and About windows on Intel machines (7.31.08)
• Redesign of about box, removing electric slide (8.6.08)
• Added Licence agreement page to help menu (8.8.08)
• Fixed disappearance of rotated text when changing elargement size (8.20.08)
• Fixed disappearance of header text on scores longer than 22 pages (3.23.09)
• Added rotated turning and spreading signs (4.14.09)

LabanReader 2.0 beta

• Now capable of reading LabanWriter 4.5 files

Labanwriter Fonts for LW 4.5.2

(Last updated 4/14/09)

• Adds new uplifted, buoyant, weighty and heavy symbols
• Fixed a missing 15/16ths triangle arrowhead
• Adds 4 new large white carets
• Adds new experimental head symbol
• Modify left and right hip symbols
• Adds new motif shoulders symbol
• Altered both shoulders symbol (9/22/05)
• Changed new weighty and heavy symbols to be 12 pixels wide
• Added a new small symbol for left and right hands with all fingertips
• Added LMA symbols for Spoke-like and Arc-like and horizontal addition bow
• Added double slash to LMA symbols
• Altered head area symbol for better tick alignment (1.27.07)
• Added large head area (1.29.07)
• Added LabanSpace2 font, which contains 16th floorplan boy and girl pins, floorplan exit<10.12.07)
• Changed width of medium hold sign, so it will flip to opposite side accurately(10.13.07)
• Added new flipped staff separator symbol (7.9.08)
• Added rotated Joining and Spreading signs (4.14.09)