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Messages - Adam Cuerden

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Object Plugins / Re: Trill.ms (1.1)
Sounds useful. It'd also allow various other styles to be added later.  By the way, working on this score has taught me lots about terrible old conventions of music. Like the transposing natural trumpets labelled using the word nowadays used to indicate [French] horns, but  which have to be trumpets because they're very obviously within the natural trumpet harmonic series, to writing the Soprano part using the Soprano clef (a C clef on the bottom line) - so just because something's in an old score doesn't always make it a good idea. =)
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General Discussion / Is there a way to put italics in the lyrics?
Besides wanting to have the odd word italicised at times, there's also things like multilingual scores, where having the ability to put, say, the French in italics and the English in normal text would aid the singer a lot; that's also the standard convention, more or less.
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General Discussion / Re: What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for all the advice, everyone. In this case, where I was inputting a score that was fairly constantly having two beamed sets of notes against each other, it was easier to just do it as two scores, but it's a useful trick for things like the vocal score, where minor differences between verses need two layered staves - but much more irregularly.


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General Discussion / Re: What am I doing wrong?
Erg. This is going to get annoying - there's nine instrumental parts, and at least four of them have similar setups starting around that bar. Well, maybe we'll get an object or update for that.
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General Discussion / What am I doing wrong?
In this

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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.75,Single)
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Up|Dur2:4th|Pos2:n1
|Rest|Dur:4th|Opts:Stem=Down
|Rest|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Opts:Stem=Down
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet,Staccato|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:8th|Pos2:3
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet=End,Staccato|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:8th|Pos2:4
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First|Dur2:8th|Pos2:n5
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam|Dur2:8th|Pos2:6
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End|Dur2:8th|Pos2:5
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

The how do I get the top set of notes to beam? Layering could work, but in a full score, that means wrangling 20-some staves. Ugh.
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General Discussion / Re: Selectively suppressing staves when printing
Thanks so much everyone. You know how it is when you've been using something for a while. Been trying out the ] menu, and can say my scores now look so much better, collapsing things whenever I want them to, and adding more spacing as well.

I don't actually have the Rose sample as it wasn't included when I installed, which doesn't help, but... I think I've figured it out... 
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Object Plugins / Re: Trill.ms (1.1)
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.75,Single)
|User|Trill.ms|Pos:10.5|Class:StaffSig|Span:1|EndOffset:-8|StartOffset:-.5
|DynamicVariance|Style:Crescendo|Pos:-8.5
|RestChord|Dur:Half|Opts:Stem=Down,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:Whole|Pos2:4
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:-1,0,2|Opts:Stem=Down
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

In this system, the trill stops at the end of the rest under the note, not the end of the note. Also it seems difficult to get nice short trill markings - I'd like tr. then maybe two waves; it seems to want to shoot off for ages.
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General Discussion / Selectively suppressing staves when printing
I know this is one of those things that has been discussed for... well, looks like at least 10 years, but with the new objects tools, is there any way to, for example, in a vocal score where the piano comes in before the voice, to hide the vocal line for the first few printed staves? It's literally the only thing keeping me from getting near-perfect prints of my music.
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General Discussion / Re: Extend last system oddity
Useful trick! *And, aye, you kind of have to use forced system breaks - otherwise, nine times out of ten, it seems, you end up with a single bar in the last system. Not to mention the whole problem of breaks at the end of a page in the middle of fast complicated passages.
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General Discussion / Boxmarks2 alteration: Improved trills
For my own use, I made a few minor tweaks to Boxmarks2: Basically, for the h, i, and j characters -- the three "trilllike" ones, I tweaked it a bit so that they can overlap, making a continuous trill symbol by using, say, hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii or hiiiiiij or hiiijjiiijijiji if you are so inclined, instead of one with gaps in it. Of course, they will still work fine on their own, since the change is fairly minimal.

Does anyone know who I'd ask to be able to offer it to others?
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General Discussion / Smallness
I'm not... quite sure how you'd fix this, but...

I'm preparing a vocal score of a cut song from Yeomen of the Guard of appropriate layout to allow it to be cut to size and added into the standard score. As such, I'm trying to imitate Chappell's use of fonts and so on, with the exception of making the lyric font a little bigger, at the request of others.

As the score at a few points changes the left hand to the treble clef, I'm following the chappell custom of using a smaller clef when indicating the changes, hiding the clef that actually changes them. However, this means that not only the clef at the point of change disappears... but all clefs at the start of lines from then on.

Now, I DO have to edit the score a bit anyway, so it's not that much of a problem, but should it be beer to have a null-clef to add if you wanted to remove the clefs at the start of systems?
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General Discussion / Extend last system oddity
Setting the extend last system checkbox seems to extend only the last bar. However, if you instead use the section close barline with the Force system break checkbox, you get a much more aesthetically pleasing staff, but must then manually edit out the last system. Is there any way to fix this?
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General Discussion / Re: Grace note positioning bug
Hmm.  could the gracenotes be positioned independantly of the notes and the space they need after? I find it hard to imagine a situation where gracenotes SHOULDN'T align.
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General Discussion / Grace note positioning bug
In the original score, (When Jealous Torments from Yeomen of the Guard, ("cat you fondle, soft and sly")) both these were on treble clefs and had a key signature of Cminor, in the middle of a modulation, but it doesn't really matter. Put them on staves one atop the other.

Top staff:
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:n6|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:7|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:b8
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:6|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:7|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:8
|Bar
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:6|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:7
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:6|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:7
|Bar
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:6
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:6
|Bar
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:n3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:5
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End


Bottom Staff
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:2,6
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:2,6
|Bar
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:n3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:#1,5
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:1,5
|Bar
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:n3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:n0,4
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:0,4
|Bar
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:#1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:0,n3
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

In every measure of the four, the grace notes, which ought to align, don't.
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General Discussion / Re: Slur Handling "Bug"
Hmm. Looked a lot worse in situ, than when I've now reloaded it (and forgive the naming error, it was late.)

I was getting somewhat odd spaces for the beginning and end of the tie: I still get that on the bottommost note of the chord when I paste it in - the slur is much shorter than it ought to be.

Should I get a screenshot?
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General Discussion / Slur Handling "Bug"
Not, perhaps a full-fledged bug, but here are some complicated chords I have in a short-score setup of a song I'm working on.

!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:3,9|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:Half|Pos2:12,13
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:4,8|Opts:Stem=Down
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:3,7|Opts:Stem=Down
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:2,6|Opts:Stem=Down
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:#4|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:#11,14
|RestChord|Dur:16th|Opts:Stem=Up,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:8th|Pos2:3,7,9,11
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:#16|Opts:Stem=Up
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:3^|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:4th|Pos2:7^,10^,#11^,17^
|Chord|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:7,10,11,17
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End


As you can see, the slurs in the last chord... look hideous.
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General Discussion / Slur oddity
From the Left hand of the Organ part of Sullivan's Festival Te Deum

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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Rest|Dur:4th
|Chord|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:-3,4|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:Half|Pos2:6^
|Chord|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:-4,3|Opts:Stem=Down
|Chord|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:6^|Opts:Stem=Up|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-5,2
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:6|Opts:Stem=Up|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-4,3
|Rest|Dur:4th|Opts:Stem=Down
|Rest|Dur:Half|Opts:Stem=Down
|Bar
|Rest|Dur:4th|Opts:Stem=Down
|Chord|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:-5,2|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:Half|Pos2:6^
|Chord|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:-6,1|Opts:Stem=Down
|Chord|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:-7,0|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:4th|Pos2:6^
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:-6,1|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:4th|Pos2:6
|Rest|Dur:4th|Opts:Stem=Down
|Rest|Dur:Half|Opts:Stem=Down
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End



Why  does the first bar's bottom slur have a completely diffent appearance to that in the third bar?

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Instrument Trees / Re: General Midi.nwcitree
HAving Timpani in a funny place was fine in NWC1. But in NWC2, the use of instrument trees means you can't just hit T to find timpani, and it's counter-intuitive to open up non-percussion groups searching for it.

Even people who know midi aren't going to click on a strings label in search for Timpani, for goodness' sake! It's a situation where the additional features are making a former non-problem into a problem.
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Instrument Trees / Re: General Midi.nwcitree
The default instrument tree should not make anything difficult to find. Thios program is not made for people who know MIDI numeric assignments, it's made for musicians.
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General Discussion / Re: Bug: Lost notes
The sound. You no longer hear the A after it's been briefly duplicated by another note in the counter-melody. (Admittedly, this was fiddling around that is now significantly different, but it's a case that could come up in intended passages easily.) at the end of

|Note|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:6

the Whole note from

|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:Whole|Pos2:6

Is cut off two beats early.
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General Discussion / Bug: Lost notes
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:Whole|Pos2:6
|Note|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:6
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:#4
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:7
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:3^
|Note|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:3
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End


The dotted whole note A disappears after it's doubled.
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Instrument Trees / Re: General Midi.nwcitree
That's all very well, but the point was that the main itree puts it in the wrong place. (also, that's a somewhat eccentrically chosen octave.
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General Discussion / New Vesion for today....
Could you tell me if Subtitles or anything else particularly useful to the layout of a fairly simple Vocal score will be available in the next version? I'm holding back sending out a PDF to try and fit in any useful new features, but have to sleep soon, as I'm in Britain.
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Instrument Trees / Re: General Midi.nwcitree
Aye, but should we really be making it difficult for new users? The groupings make the timpani highly obscured. That's a very bad thing in a default setting.
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Instrument Trees / Re: General Midi.nwcitree
That may be the recommended, but it also makes it absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to find the timpanium. The Timpanium isn't anywhere near where anyone would look.
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General Discussion / Re: Stuck notes again
Preventing a tie from resolving to a muted note would be awkward for anyone who didn't know about it. Might be best just to have the muted note turn the note it's tied to off when reached.
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General Discussion / Feature Request: Subtitle
It would be very convenient if we could have a second line centred under the title, in slightly smaller print. It'd give room to, for example, say what a song is from:

Lady Hilda's Song
From Broken Hearts

Further subtitles would allow even more information:

Lady Hilda's Song
From Broken Hearts
For Voice and Mandolin

What do you think?

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General Discussion / Re: Dynamically hiding staves
Rests being display optional MIGHT be a good idea, but I do worry a little bit about how much work you'd have to do to get grand staffs to display correctly if too much is being presumed by the program. Forcing it to be done by hand would make sure that hiding was intended.

I should also add that only a whole rest should be display optional by default, as well as, possibly, bar lines. For one thing, display optional notes MUST be clearly marked on the display pane, with a unique colour (or it becomes impossible to adjust them with any certainty (N.B. a second unique colour would be needed for invisible display optional things, of course)), and having every rest a different colour than the notes would be supremely awkward
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General Discussion / Re: Dynamically hiding staves
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The logic would have to allow for the non-important bars to be printed after the preceding system break and continue to the next one, so there's always a full line of the important bars.

I was trying to imply that would be the case in my example, but probably was fairly opaque in my description. I'd say the easiest way to handle the other problems is to redefine top staff to top VISIBLE staff - as, after all, top staff only is easily overridden.  A further "Bottom staff only" command would provide further functionality for notes on the music, pedals, etc.  Decorative staves, orchestral bar lines and the rest should self-adjust when the system is passed to the drawing function sans the removed staves, presumably.
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General Discussion / Dynamically hiding staves
So, is there any chance of being able to hide staves in some systems on the printed page but not others in an upcoming release? How far off would it be?


Also, might I suggest a way of working it? Being able to designate features as "not important" would let you just, say, highlight bars 12-40 on a stave, click a "not important" checkbox, and then the system need merely check if everything on that stave of a proposed system is marked not important. If it is, skip that stave. If not, print it.

E.g. I have a stave "Lead Soprano".  She sings from bars 20-40 of a 60-bar composition, then is silent. I mark highlight all the bar lines and rests in bars 1-19 and 41-60 and mark them not important. 

The program divides my composition into 8 systems, of 8 bars each. The first two, covering bars 1-16, show only the accompaniment. The third [17-24] has some non-important, and some important bars, and so is printed. the next three systems, encompassing bars 25-40 are printed, and then, the remainder being not important, isn't.

Notes on special cases: If all staves are marked non-important in a system, rules should be in place to arbitrarily print one, (a warning should possibly be flagged up) In the case of layered staves, if either has important things on it, both should print.

It's going to be an awkward feature to add, but it's important enough that the bullet's going to have to be bitten sooner or later. Please do it.

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General Discussion / Beaming difficulty [Slightly Related to Automatic Beam Tool]
I include, perhaps, a bit more context than is necessary, but how should the second bar of this:

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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Clef|Type:Bass
|Key|Signature:F#
|TimeSig|Signature:4/4
|Instrument|Name:"Banjo"|Patch:105|Trans:0|DynVel:10,30,45,60,75,92,108,127|Pos:0|Wide:Y
|Dynamic|Style:mp|Pos:-8
|Rest|Dur:Half
|Rest|Dur:4th
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Bar
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:6|Opts:Stem=Down
|Rest|Dur:8th
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Down
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down
|Note|Dur:8th,Dotted|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Down
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:6
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

be beamed, given it has that odd syncopation? The automatic beam option, isolating the dotted eighth, seems an awkward way to deal with it
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General Discussion / Re: Feature Request: Note variation
I'd really like to see an extention of the grace note functionality so that I could use the small notes for things like Cadenzas easily.  I brought up on the old forum a cadenza from Monckton's country girl that was impossible to set up correctly using grace notes alone. (because there was a firm-set [and thus larger] note played at the same time as its start)
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General Discussion / Re: octave transpositions ("8va")
I'd also like to request the ability to shift two octaves, though there's slightly less conventon fo rthat. 16va, 15va - I suspect it ought to be 15ma, really - as well as clefs with little 15s above and below 'em.

[Also, whilst I'm asking: Mezzo soprano clefs, and the other rare C-clefs of that sort? Pretty please?
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General Discussion / Re: Oddest bug....
Quote from: Lawrie Pardy –
G'day Adam,
sorry, didn't make myself clear.

Could you go to control panel, click "Sounds and Audio Devices", select the "Audio" tab.  At the bottom you will see a section that will show your "MIDI music playback" device.  This device is what MIDI mapper points to.

What is this device please?

Confusingly, it's Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth.

...Don't ask me why it works fine when directly called, but not obliquely.
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General Discussion / Re: Stuck notes again
Ties across a key change are actually quite common.  Particularly when you have a pedal, and especially when  temporary jumps to other keys are being noted, as opposed to using accidentals.
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General Discussion / Re: Oddest bug....
Device used by playback is "Microsoft Midi Mapper"

I also appear to have a SigmaTel C-Major Audio  Sound gard, I think, though I recently had a major comptuter crash and it's possible that Control Panel speaks falsely.