• Using option-drag is encouraged over copy/paste to make copies of selected symbols on the score. This allows exact placement of the symbols without having to move them from the center of the screen. Selected LW symbols can be simply dragged to other labanwriter scores to make copies, or to an open MS Word document to be included in it. If you click and drag something onto the desktop it becomes a Picture Clipping. You can put these in a folder, title them and later drag the clipping directly to the same or another document .

• For those using system 8.6 or greater, LW fonts may be "greyed" by font smoothing. To turn this off, choose "Control Panels" from the apple menu, then "Appearance". Once the Appearance control panel is open, select the "Fonts" tab, and uncheck the "Smooth all fonts on screen" box at the bottom

• Note that pins now become bigger when placed directly on floorplans. This aids in aligning the pin's nose with lines.

• Music notes can be turned if you use the manipulate palette for turning and "rotate by 1 unit" counterclockwise or select "rotation" from the text menu and choose "turn."

• The manipulation for creating a double line applies to bows only and not to the line tools.

• If LabanWriter says you do not have enough memory, quit LabanWriter, select the icon by clicking on it once, and then select "Get Info" from the File Menu. Select the Popup menu item "Memory", and double the numbers in both boxes. Then restart LabanWriter.

• When you want to put a pin inside a direction symbol and surround it with Whitespace, you may find that it is better to fill in the level of the symbol from the top and from the bottom, leaving a blank space in the middle in which to place the pin. This can be done using the palette within the Manipulate Palette which allows you to place more than one level within a symbol. This is often necessary for diagonal middle pins which when surrounded by Whitespace sometimes whiteout the edge of the direction symbol.

• For text to keep exact layout when you turn it, be sure to click return at the end of each line.Otherwise the layout will change a bit when the text is flipped.

• Due to the thin lines used in LabanWriterÕs fonts, lines some symbols may not print fully when decreased in size. As the symbols are reduced in size, the lines become thinner, and thinner lines are harder for inkjet printers to print.

• Finger symbols generated by the finger palette come in two sizes now. Symbols for whole fingers are made smaller than for special combinations of parts of the fingers you have been able to make before. Not all combinations have been made. You can add dots as needed. The following smaller symbols will be available:

• To undo a command choose Undo (cmd Z) in the Edit menu. Choose Redo if that is not what you wanted. Undo actions are:

Undo Delete
Undo Paste
Undo Alignment
Undo Staff Change
Undo Staff Add
Undo Floorplan Add
Undo Rotate Text (no longer needed, as you can simply re-flip (cmd-T) ).
Undo Text change
Let us know if there are things you would like to Undo

• Arrowheads won't automatically go on properly for all cases of slanted lines. When this happens put them on "by hand" by selecting the one you need from the pin palette.

• Using the "squares for caption" and "squares for wings" in the Add Floorplan dialog box will allow you extra space on the bottom and sides of floorplans. This allows you to put captions below, or pins in the wings that will move with the floorplan when it is dragged elsewhere.

• Creating special pictures in Photoshop, and importing them into LabanWriter may yield results that are less clear than on the screen. This is due to dithering of shape edges within Photoshop. Users wanting cleaner edges are advised to use a bitmap drawing program such as Painting which allows drag and drop transfers to and from LabanWriter.

• We have tested 4.4 on different printers. Unfortunately they seem to vary in their ability to print LabanWriter's fine lines. We suggest that if you have printing problems, you test your document on a second printer. Reducing the size of symbols makes the lines in symbols lighter, and may exaggerate printing problems on some printers.

• Use the Times font rather than Geneva to retain, when printed, the exact spacing of a paragraph of text, and particularly one in which you have inserted Labanotation symbols that are only inserted in a space. Font substitutions when printing may cause Geneva text to respace itself, and inserted symbols will not appear in the correct space.

• LabanWriter files sent as attachments via email may loose their Resource Fork depending on your internet service provider. Yahoo and AOL accounts will strip away this information, leaving only a generic file icon on arrival, which LabanWriter will not open. If you're having this problem with attachments, consider compressing your score with Stuffit before sending, and having the receiver decompress the score with the Stuffit Expander.

• Since not too many people write the parts of the face we have not made a face palette. The parts are there for anyone to assemble, however. You can make your own parts-of-the-face document by making the parts you need and saving them on one document. Keep it open on your desktop while you work. Just select the symbol you want and drarg it onto the page you are working on. This brings a copy onto your work page yet leaves the symbol in your document. If you want to copy a face symbol on the same document, hold down Option and drag.