Preferences

The Tools → Preferences pull-down menu opens this dialog, focused on on the handling of a few user preferences.
It operates at a much higher level than the direct handling of application constants.

Beside standard features, the dialog also presents a set of Advanced Topics that impact the Audiveris user interface and thus require an application restart.

Table of contents

  1. Early steps
  2. Default plugin
  3. Output folder
  4. Global font ratio
  5. Locale
  6. Advanced Topics

Early steps

This box allows to define which step is automatically trigerred on an input file.

Default plugin

This allows to interactively choose a new default plugin among the declared ones, since by default the first declared plugin is set as the default one (See the Plugins section).

Output folder

These boxes govern where output files are located by default.

  • Input sibling: If set, all outputs are stored in the same folder as the input file (unless the -output option is specified on the command line).
  • Browse: Allows to define a default output folder.
  • Separate folders: If set, all outputs related to a given input file are stored in a separate folder, created according to the input file name without its extension.

For further explanations, see the section on Standard folders.

Global font ratio

The slider allows to select a larger font size used throughout the application views.

Locale

We can pick up a different user language.
As of this writing, the available locales are:

  • en (English), the default
  • fr (French), not yet fully implemented…1

Advanced Topics

Each of these topics can gather several related features.

  • SAMPLES deals with sample repositories and classifier training.
  • ANNOTATIONS deals with the production of symbol annotations.
  • PLOTS deals with the display of plots for scale, stem, staff or header projections.
  • SPECIFIC_VIEWS deals with specific sheet tabs (staff free, staff-line glyphs).
  • SPECIFIC_ITEMS deals with the display of specific items on views (attachments, glyph axis, …)
  • DEBUG deals with many debug features (notably browsing the book internal hierarchy).

Note that an application restart is needed to take any modified selection into account for these advanced topics, because of the various impacts this implies on many UI elements.

  1. If you are willing to add another locale, please post a message on the Audiveris discussion forum. ↩