Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat sheet
Most of the keyboard shortcuts are listed in the respective menu items in mei-friend’s menu bar; however, some of them you will only find here.
Getting help
| ? |
Open mei-friend documentation |
| . |
Open MEI documentation for selected element |
Navigating through notation
| → |
Select next note, rest, or mRest |
| ← |
Select previous note, rest, or mRest |
| ↑ |
Select note, rest, or mRest one layer up |
| ↓ |
Select note, rest, or mRest one layer down |
| → |
Select note, rest, mRest in next measure |
| ← |
Selected note, rest, mRest in previous measure |
| → |
Go to next page (or ⇟) |
| ← |
Go to previous page (or ⇞) |
| ↑ |
Go to first page (or END) |
| ↓ |
Go to last page (or HOME) |
Zooming and display
Some zooming keyboard shortcuts apply for the currently active panel (notation panel, editor panel, or the facsimile panel).
| +, – |
Zoom notation/encoding/facsimile in or out |
| Mouse wheel |
Zoom notation/encoding/facsimile in or out (depending on mouse wheel direction) |
| 0 |
Zoom notation to 100% |
| 5 |
Zoom notation to 50% |
Selecting elements
Most comfortably, use mouse click and drag to select elements.
Please consult Settings->mei-friend->Drag select to choose the element types while drag-selecting.
You can use the following shortcuts in combination with click and drag for selecting elements.
| click |
Select multiple notes by mouse click |
| click |
Select the chord when clicking onto a note |
Manipulating elements
| X |
Invert attribute `@place` (dir, dynam, trill, tuplet number, ...),
`@curvedir` (slur, tie, ...), `@stem.dir` (note, chord)
from above to below or below to above for selected element |
| X |
Set att.placement (dir, dynam, trill, ...) to @place="between"
and determine staff attribute from staff group of selected element (has to contain exactly two staves) |
| V |
Insert vertical group (`@vgrp`) attribute to selected elements with a new value for the displayed page |
Deleting elements
| BACKSPACE or DELETE |
Delete selected elements both in encoding and notation.
Applies to all control elements, clef change, accid, artic, beam, beamSpan, note, chord, rest, mRest, multiRest.
When deleting the last note inside a chord, beam, tuplet, fTrem, bTrem, these parent elements will also get deleted.
When deleting an element that is been pointed to by another element (such as by a slur through `@startid` or `@endid`),
this pointing element will also be deleted.
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Moving elements
| ↑ |
Move note, rest, mRest, multiRest chromatically upwards |
| ↓ |
Move note, rest, mRest, multiRest chromatically downwards |
| ↑ |
Move note, rest, mRest, multiRest diatonically upwards |
| ↓ |
Move note, rest, mRest, multiRest diatonically downwards |
| ↑ |
Move note, rest, mRest, multiRest one octave upwards |
| ↓ |
Move note, rest, mRest, multiRest one octave downwards |
| ↑ |
Move note, rest, mRest, multiRest one staff downwards |
| ↓ |
Move note, rest, mRest, multiRest one staff upwards |
MEI encoding manipulation
| C |
Remove @accid.ges when @accid is present |
Renumber measures (counts successive measures with `@metcon="false"` as one, counts multiple endings with same numbering)
| R |
Test renumbering (output to console) |
| R |
Execute renumbering |
| M |
Add XML ids to MEI (done natively in mei-friend) |
| M |
Add XML ids from MEI, except those used for referencing other elements (done natively in mei-friend) |
| I |
Ingest facsimile |
| E |
Surround selected encoding in the editor with a tag to be specified in context menu (entire current tag selected, if only single cursor position provided) |
| / |
Surround selected encoding in the editor with last tag specified in context menu (entire current tag selected, if only single cursor position provided) |
Inserting elements
Key bindings insert elements without placement attribute by default. To insert or invert placement, use X. The elements are inserted using @startid and @endid attributes by default. To insert them with @tstamp and @tstamp2 attributes instead, press together with the keyboard shortcuts listed below. Time stamp insertion is supported for these elements: slur, tie, hairpin, fermata, dir, dynam, pedal, mordent, trill, turn, glissando.
| + |
Insert accidental sharp ♯ to currently selected note(s) |
| = |
Insert accidental natural ♮ to currently selected note(s) |
| – |
Insert accidental flat ♭ to currently selected note(s) |
| T |
Insert tempo at selected note(s) |
| I |
Insert directive at selected note(s) |
| D |
Insert dynamics at selected note, with extender if two notes selected |
| S |
Insert slur starting/ending on selected notes |
| T |
Insert tie starting/ending on selected notes |
| H |
Insert crescendo hairpin starting/ending at selected notes |
| H |
Insert diminuendo hairpin starting/ending at selected notes |
| B |
Insert beam on selected notes/chords sharing identical parent |
| B |
Insert beamSpan element on selected elements |
| U |
Surround selected elements with a supplied element; responsibility attribute to be selected in settings |
| U |
Make artic attribute a separate element and surround it with a supplied element; responsibility attribute to be selected in settings |
| U |
Make accid attribute a separate element and surround it with a supplied element; responsibility attribute to be selected in settings |
| A |
Insert arpeggio for selected note(s) (with @order="up" per default, with CTRL + A @order="down") |
| F |
Insert fermata above selected note |
| G |
Insert glissando starting at first, ending at last selected note |
| P |
Insert pedal down for (first) selected note (and pedal up for last selected note, if multiple notes are selected) |
| P |
Insert pedal up for selected note |
| L |
Insert trill to selected note(s) |
| N |
Insert turn to selected note(s) (with SHIFT: lower form) |
| M |
Insert mordent to selected note(s) (with SHIFT: upper form) |
| O |
Insert octave shift above (8va), spanning two selected notes/chords (below with CTRL)
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| O |
Insert octave shift above (15va), spanning two selected notes/chords (below with CTRL)
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| G |
Insert G clef before selected element |
| G |
Insert G clef after selected element |
| F |
Insert F clef before selected element |
| F |
Insert F clef after selected element |
| C |
Insert C clef before selected element |
| C |
Insert C clef after selected element |
Toggle articulation
| S |
Toggle staccato on note/chord |
| V |
Toggle accent on note/chord |
| E |
Toggle tenuto on note/chord |
| O |
Toggle marcato on note/chord |
| I |
Toggle staccatissimo on note/chord |
| Y |
Toggle spiccato on note/chord |
MIDI playback
| SPACE |
Play/pause (opens player if required) |
| ESC |
Stop playback and hide player |
URL Parameters
mei-friend may ba called with several parameters passed through the URL
in the form of https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at/?file=fileURL&select=beamId.
| file=fileURL |
Open specified file URL |
| scale=number |
Specify scaling of notation (default: 55; min: 10; max: 200) |
| breaks=none|line|encoded|auto |
Specify breaks option of Verovio |
select=n1,n2,n3&
select=ch1&
select=slur1 |
Specify selected elements (pass multiple
comma-separated xml:ids and/or repeat select parameter); notation and
encoding will page-flip and scroll to first selected element; overrides page parameter |
| page=number |
Specify a page number to be displayed (depends on breaks settings; overridden by select, see above) |
| speed=true|false |
Set speed mode |
| fork=true|false |
If a https://raw.githubusercontent.com URL is supplied via
the file parameter (see above), direct the user to fork the corresponding
repository and open their forked version (logging them in first if necessary) |
| autoValidate=true|false |
Activate (default) or deactivate automatic validation upon MEI text input |
notationOrientation=top|right|
bottom|left |
Set relative position of notation in window |
| notationProportion=0.5–0.95 |
Size of notation panel relative to window |
facsimileOrientation=top|right|
bottom|left |
Set relative position of facsimile relative to notation panel |
| facsimileProportion=0.5–0.95 |
Size of facsimile panel relative to notation panel |
Examples using URL parameters
Schumann piece with several elements
selected in the middle
Beethoven Op.76 containing facsimile
elements with measure-wise zones