Re: [Denemo-devel] music font patch

[Adam Tee]

On Thursday 23 August 2007 14:56:30 Richard Shann wrote:
> Here is my patch to improve the rhythm pattern stuff. Contrary to my
> last email, it does not repeat the pitch recognition files (which are
> missing from CVS), which were in the last patch.
> This will require work on the installation side, to install the font
> Denemo.ttf in the appropriate system-wide directory. I think gtk
> initialization is coping with both fontConfig and defoma, so I guess
> where it goes may be easy, but I'm not sure about that stuff - I've put
> the font in ~/.fonts which gtk definitely does grok.
> The advantage of having a font like this is that making graphical
> reference to musical items becomes easier, you just write text using the
> font. In this case I have used it for the buttons that you create when
> you define a rhythmic pattern. We could replace all those .svg things
> and the icon creation code with labels in this font.
The is would be a good improvement on display and reduce the footprint
of the executable.


> I've identified bugs (limitations at any rate) in the rhythm entry
> stuff
> 1) - when entering modifiers at measure boundaries (e.g. triplets ending
> at the end of a measure) the next note ends up in a new measure.
> 2) - when deleting, the pattern backs up regardless jumping modifiers
> while the delete is actually deleting triplet or slur markers (though it
> works for . modifiers).

Can these bugs/limitations be put onto the savannah bug tracker ?


Adam