Re: [Denemo-devel] Printing parts

[Richard Shann]

> > I have to admit I've not done much with the source lately so I'll have to 
> > get 
> > back into it.
> > 
> > Adam
> 
> I'll look at fixing the voice placing in exportlilypond.c: if I figure
> anything out I will post it here.
> Richard

I've had a look - as I thought it is horrible. The voices are
represented as separate staffs with a tag (misleadingly called
voicenumber, but it has only two values 1 or 2) to say whether it is a
staff or a further voice for the staff earlier in the GList which was
tagged voicenumber=1.
So the GList of staffs is a mixture of staffs and voices with implicit
rules about what the order means.
We can either just patch this up: 
        1) in exportlilypond we do not start a new \context for voices with
voicenumber==2
        2) in AddVoice we create a new staff and give it voicenumber=2, placing
it after the last one (possibly still working, but could have been
broken fixing the coredumps in create/delete staff)
        3) in draw.c we keep the y-coordinate the same as the previous staff
when it is a voicenumber==2 type (possibly still working, but could have
been broken fixing the automatic height of staffs)

or we could fix it. The latter would mean replacing the measures field
in Staff with a Voices GList whose elements were GLists of measures.
Which would mean re-working the three elements described above. Plus of
course, a currentvoice field in the staff and replacement of references
to staff->measures by staff->currentvoice->measures. A lot more work,
and I never use voices myself ... but a significant advance in the code.

I think it would be a mistake to delay a release while doing all that -
and I think a release is urgent because the current code coredumps
disconcertingly which is a real turn-off. We could just patch up for
now. At least (if I've got it right) what is going on is documented in
this email!

Richard