Re: [Denemo-devel] excerpt from selection

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 12:53 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> I've looked into this: I think we should make the print commands pop up
> a dialog under the following conditions
> 
> 1) Ordinary (pdf) print if there *is* a selection: dialog offers to
> print just the selection but the default response (Enter from the
> keyboard) is to print the whole music
> 2) Excerpt print if there is *no* selection: dialog offers to print the
> whole file or accept start/end measure numbers and start end staff
> numbers (each in range 1+) which sets the selection and then prints the
> selection.
> Otherwise there should be no dialog, just print, the selection (for
> excerpt) or the whole music (for pdf)
> 
> To do this:
>       exportlilypond.c needs modifying to use   si->markstaffnum,
> si->first/laststaffmarked si->first/lastmeasuremarked instead of passed
> parameters start,end
> the callers of export_lilypond() need modifying (mainly file.c, the
> exportpdf.c needs to be retired and the functionality integrated in
> print.c where most of the code is duplicated).
> Dialogs need writing - there is no function set_selection(firststaffnum,
> laststaffnum, firstmeasurenum, lastmeasurenum, firstobjnum, lastobjnum)
> but I can create one. (If possible we should pass two pointers to a
> bookmark structure rather than separate gints, but that is a detail).
> 
> I am happy to handle the lilypond & its callers, Jeremiah would you be
> up for the dialog(s) and the exportpdf.c integration/retirement?

Yes. That sounds good. I will get a start on it. I can't promise how
much I will get done this weekend because I have a bunch of stuff going
on.

Jeremiah

> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 08:03 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 00:15 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 22:18 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > > > I've made the printing of excerpts respect the selection if any. There
> > > > is a place in print.c for a dialog if no selection has been made.
> > > 
> > > Thanks very much for this. I will work on making a dialog only because
> > > it may be reduce new user confusion.  
> > > 
> > > > Note: si->start, end is currently overloaded for playback and printing.
> > > > Is this good?
> > > 
> > > Yes. That should be good as far as I can see. 
> > 
> > Well, at least there should be a logical interface to the values. At the
> > moment if you want to print just some measures you would set the
> > measures in the playback properties dialog. This was completely broken
> > until I discovered it yesterday. Also, we are resetting si->start,end
> > now, which would confuse someone who had set up playback to play some
> > particular measures.
> > It might be best to get rid of the si->start end fields altogether and
> > replace them with the selection (->firstmeasuremarked ...)
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
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