Macro

Macros are placeholders for text that should not be hard-coded yet, This way you can use one text on several places.

Macros are primarily used in the header and footer dialog

$A	Arranger
$B	Current filename.
$C	Composer.
$c	Comment text
$D	Last modification date
$d	Creation date .
$E	Original author (MusiCAD ID)
$e	Installation directory
$f	Current filename (without directory and extension)
$F	Second subtitle.
$G	Information
$I	Instrument-name, (* only in single part view )
$H	Country.
$J	Year
$K	Number of parts in score.
$L	License (registration name).
$M	MusiCAD.
$m	Mode
$N	Number of pages.
$P	Part name; (* only in single part view ).
$Q	MusiCAD version number
$R	Copyright text.
$S	Subtitle
$T	Title.
$U	Number of repeats
$v	Play order
$V	Todays's date.
$W	Lyricist
$X	Tuning for transposing instruments (C, Bb, Eb Alt etc.)
$x	Opus number, tracking.
$Y	Style
$y	Part-number (* only in single part view )
$Z	Source.
$z	Area; further specification of source
$#	Page-number.
$?	Current time.
$@	Starting tempo.
$>	Skip rest of line if number of pages is smaller than 2.
$<	Skip rest of line of first page.
$1	Skip rest of line on odd pages.
$2	Skip rest of line on even pages.
$_	Conditional space.
$,	Conditional comma.
$.	Conditional dot.
$:	Conditional colon.
$+	Conditional plus.
$-	Conditional minus.

Apart from the one-letter macro's it is possible to use a few directories from windows that tend to be language specific and windows-version-specific and even user specific. The actual values are to be found under [Help|Info|Directories] and will be used for default preferences in file locations

$(PERSONAL)	C:\My Documents
$(MYMUSIC)	C:\My Documents\My music
$(FAVORITES)	C:\WINDOWS\Favorites
$(RECENT)	C:\WINDOWS\Recent
$(MYPICTURES)	C:\My Documents\My pictures