v6.0.0

v6.0.0 of Neon brings a new dashboard/homepage and many new features, along with breaking changes.

Breaking Changes

• Browsing and uploading files has been moved to dashboard.html, allowing index.html to be a more proper homepage for Neon. dashboard.html also includes a more user-friendly and capable file system, including drag-and-drop and uploading multiple files at once!
• Server structure has been reorganized, and files are served differently: in development, /edit/005r_pre-toggle.jsonld ➡️ /editor.html?storage=005r_pre-toggle.mei.

What's Changed

• ✨ 💄 Add visual cues that tell users if they're in Edit mode or in Insert mode. by @cadagong in #876
• 💄 Move error logs into a modal window (but left the option to export logs into a file) by @cadagong in #883
• 🐛 Fix divlines jumping to wrong staff lines. by @jinh0 in #882
• 🐛 Fix bug that was causing Neon to start in Insert mode instead of Edit mode by @cadagong in #887
• ✨ 💄 Add "Display All" option in Display Panel. Removed scroll behaviour for now by @cadagong in #889
• 🐛 Fix issue that was causing misleading visual cues regarding which mode user is in (Edit vs Insert) by @cadagong in #896
• 🐛♻️ Fix selection of multiple staves by cmd-click by @jinh0 in #897
• 🐛 Fix "Insert to nearest syllable" when no neume component exists by @jinh0 in #902
• 🐛 Fix bounding box positioning on inserting neume action by @chetbae in #847
• 🐛 Fix precedes/follows check with Array.find() by @jinh0 in #900
• 🐛 Fix highlight of bounding box when hovering over syllable texts by @jinh0 in #910
• ✨ Save and load settings from localStorage by @jinh0 in #907
• ✨ Add sample folios selection to index page by @chetbae in #918
• 🐛 Disable out-of-bounds glyph placement by @jinh0 in #911
• ⚡️ Improve drag selection performance by @jinh0 in #923
• 🐛 Fix custos placement on rotated staves by @jinh0 in #926
• ✨ Let accidentals be visually positioned anywhere by @jinh0 in #925
• ✨ Add MEI action for removing out of bounds glyphs by @jinh0 in #922
• ✨ Add types to notifications by @jinh0 in #924
• 🐛 Fix inside-drag-selection calculation by @jinh0 in #928
• 🐛 Add staff out-of-bounds check by @jinh0 in #929
• 💄 add q/w/e/r/t/y to hotkey modal window by @chetbae in #934
• 🐛 ♻️ Improved selection options (and corresponding hotkey behavior) for all selection modes. by @cadagong in #904
• 🎉 New Neon Index Page by @chetbae in #893
• 🐛 Fix highlight of staves after resize or rotate by @jinh0 in #909
• ✨ Add unsaved changes indicator / alert by @jinh0 in #921
• ✨ Add 'Insert into syllable' action button for Clefs by @chetbae in #930
• 🐛 Prevent cmd/ctrl+r from updating highlight by @jinh0 in #949
• ✅ Add end-to-end testing with Cypress by @jinh0 in #941
• ✨ Add OOB check for resizing staves/bboxes by @jinh0 in #937
• ✨ Reselect glyphs after being dragged by @jinh0 in #954
• ✨ Add octave displacement for clefs by @jinh0 in #956

Full Changelog: v5.0.0...v6.0.0

~ The Neon team @yinanazhou , @chetbae , @cadagong , and @jinh0 .

v5.0.0

Notable Changes Since Summer 2022

• 💥💄 #859 - Major UI Overhaul Phase 1 (@cadagong)
  • Redesign all components of the UI
  • Remove Bulma dependency for most styles; using pure CSS instead
  • Make edit mode the default mode and remove "Edit MEI" button (BREAKING CHANGE)
• 🚑 #858 - Fix severe memory leak (@jinh0)
• ✨ #843 - Replace window.alert/prompt to modal windows
• New keyboard shortcuts
  • ✨ #808 - Add qwerty keys shortcut for switching highlight modes
  • ✨ #810 - Add enter key shortcut for editing text at selected bounding box
  • ✨ #812 - Add arrow key shortcut for moving between bounding boxes
• New feature buttons
  • ✨ #811 - Add grouping/ungrouping button
  • ✨ #816 - Add "Remove empty neumes/syllables" buttons
  • ✨ #862 - Add "Move out of syllable" and "Insert into syllable" buttons for layer elements
• Bug fixes
  • 🐛 #819 - Fix toggling of ligatures with ctrl/cmd selected neume components
  • 🐛 #836 - Fix empty text bounding boxes from not appearing
  • 🐛 #851 - Fix unintuitive zoom key shortcuts
  • 🐛 #853 - Fix selection of syllables after edit modal is open and closed
  • 🐛 #865 - Fix "re-associate to nearest staff" for multiple syllables
• Refactoring
  • 🎨 #806 - Format files according to ESLint
  • 🏷 #832 - Fix and add correct TypeScript types throughout the project

~ The Neon team @yinanazhou , @chetbae , @cadagong , and @jinh0 .

Neon v4.1.1

Changelog:

Use of diva.js as a module, Verovio merged into upstream version, and many bug fixes.

Neon v4.0.2

Changelog:

• Update some dependencies (d3, jsdoc, multer, pug,...)
• Add external context (#538)
• Support single-page manifest creation on GH pages (#532)

Neon v4.0.1

This is a patch release and contains no new features.

Issues fixed: #501, #503, part of #445

Neon v4.0.0

Changelog:

• Refactoring of editor components.
• Editor mode when using diva.js as a viewer.
• Improved text editing features.
• Ctrl-click to select multiple items.
• Support for syllables split across staves in same file using @follows and @precedes
• Support for using the system begin tag in MEI.
• Addition of the Neon manifest
• Stable text editing features.
• Support for loading <sb>- and <staff>-based MEI files. (See Explanation)
• Save by default to <sb> format.
• Verovio moved to a web worker to reduce visible delay.
• Info module is now disabled by default.
• Various bug fixes.

Neon v3.1.1

This release changes all names from Neon2/3 to Neon and changes all links to be to the new renamed repository, which is just Neon.

Neon v3.1.0

Changelog:

• Add coloring to panels in insert and edit modes.
• Add a mode to view IIIF manifests and associated MEI files with diva.js.
• Improved text support.
• Refactoring and bug fixes.

Neon.js v3.0.0

Changelog since v2.1.0

• Multiple options for highlighting (staves, neumes, syllables)
• Info box is made optional
• "Neume Opacity" is renamed "Glyph Opacity"
• View panel fits the screen
• Support for panning using 2 fingers on touch screens and touchpads
• Notifications for events in the upper left corner
• Decreased size of Verovio toolkit
• Various hotkeys (Help > Hotkeys)
• Validates loaded MEI files against MEI 4.0.0
• Editing features
  • Dragging of musical elements, updating position and pitch (if applicable)
  • Changing shape of neume components (punctum, inclinatum, virga)
  • Inserting musical elements (neume components, neumes, custos, C/F clef, staves)
  • Deleting musical elements
  • Creating ligatures from neume components and separate punctums from ligatures
  • Grouping and ungrouping neumes and syllables
  • Resizing of staves
  • Basic syllable editing support (still unstable)
  • Undo/redo

Neon.js v3.0.0 Beta 3

Changelog (since v3.0.0-b2)

• Update Verovio toolkit to DDMAL/verovio@cea1f6e
• Add support for editing local files through GitHub pages version
• Update dependencies
• Fix #320
• Some code refactoring