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New functions and enhancements in M! 2.0

• Automatic creation of scales for free mouth width
  With version 2.0 of M!, you can choose to automatically create a separate scale for mouth width already in the dialogue New stop. M! then creates the needed scale for the mouth width and links it automatically with the scale for the diameter. If a stop is created with a fixed ratio for mouth width, and you enter in the spreadsheet a value in a column of type mouth width that will not match the fixed ratio, M! asks you, if you wish to create a separate scale for mouth width. If you proceed, M! creates the separate scale, and links it to the diameter scale. Nevertheless, you are be able to create and link scales for a free mouth width manually, as it was possible with M! 1.0.
• Automatic creation of scales for upper diameter
  If you need an extra scale for a free-variable upper diameter of a non-cylindrical stop, you can choose that as an option in the dialogue New stop. M! then creates the extra scale for the upper diameter and links it automatically to the main scale.
• Automatic limitation of tone range
  You can limit the tone range of a stop at creation time. For new stops, M! assumes the range of the last created stop, so you only have to change the range if it is necessary. You can also change the tone range afterwards (even in the graphic view as in the dialogue Change stop).
• Easy entry of most used foot tone levels
  In the dialogue New stop you can choose the most used foot tone levels (32' to 1') directly, that means without opening an additional dialogue.
• More flexible preferences for creation of broken scales
  If you construct broken scales with an addition constant, it is now possible to choose a special progression at the same time (e.g. »Scale following progression 1:2 with AC: 10mm«).
• New option Refer graphical representation to NM
  If the graphical representation of a stop result in a horizontal movement of the scale origin (e.g. because of the entry of a free diameter in the dialogue Foot tone level), you can force M! to calculate the corresponding vertical movement of the graphical representation.
• Free definable columns in the spreadsheet
  Surely one of the most comprehensive enhancements of M!: It is now possible to create »free columns« in the spreadsheet. In free columns, you may enter arbitrary text (e.g. comments) or values (e.g. foot lengths). But you can even enter complex formulas in these columns, that may also contain references to other columns (e.g. »=2*D1+F3«, where D1 and F3 are references to values in other columns). Using this great functionality, it is possible to generate complex spreadsheets directly in M!, without use of third party applications.
• New menu command Insert contents
  With this menu command, you can change calculated columns (e.g. diameter or circumference) to free columns, containing the calculated values.
• Hiding of columns in the spreadsheet
  Columns in the spreadsheet now can be hidden. On the one hand, columns are hidden automatically, if the corresponding stop is hidden in the graphical view. On the other hand, you can hide columns directly in the spreadsheet.
• New column types: Cut-up and Thickness
  In addition to the already available column types (e.g. Ø, MW etc.), it is now also possible to show and enter Cut-up of pipes and Thickness of the used material. If you enter cut-ups of pipes, these values also are considered in the calculation of the end compension (EC). If you enter thickness, you will be able to view (and enter) several columns (e.g. Ø, circumference and more) also as outside sizes.
• Entry of pipe width and pipe depth (to enter or analyse wooden stops)
  In columns of type Pipe depth it is now possible to enter values. M! automatically calculates the diameter of a corresponding circular pipe.
• Reduce the printout of a spreadsheet to selected columns
  If you print spreadsheets, you can now select an option, that reduces the printout to the selected columns.
• Free thickness of scale curves in printout
  In the printout of the graphic view, you can define the thickness of scale curves for better readability.
• New variant for entering temperaments
  In the dialogue »Enter temperament« there is now a second variant to enter temperaments. Besides the known variant (Cent-values of intervals), you can now enter values as »Deviation from equal temperament«.
• Auto-save
  You can define an interval (1 to 180 minutes), after that documents will be auto-saved.

M! 2.0 is able to read and convert data-files from M! 1.0.