Re: [Denemo-devel] Polymetrics

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 12:40 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> 
> One thing I noticed - in the first example I sent you I had swapped the
> staffs round. What I didn't realize is that you had (very sensibly)
> defined start and end contexts for the two staffs, so swapping them
> would create an erroneous file.
> Denemo should warn if you try to do this: I will fix this.
I've checked in this fix: while doing that, I noticed that swap staffs
actually swaps voices, so I've made that clearer.
Richard





> Richard
> 
> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 18:11 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 17:15 +0300, Kaspar wrote:
> > > OK, thanks, it prints now.
> > > I see that it's not as straight forward procedure as one would hope :)
> > No but once done it can be put in a gallery for others to use.
> > > 
> > > Hopefully it gets there eventually...
> > > 
> > > As I'm new here, what are exactly the future horizons for Denemo?
> > > Be a complete front end for LilyPond, or is this just an additional 
> > > feature?
> > > 
> > > The reason for asking is - there are some other free notation programs 
> > > there that are being 
> > > developed right now (Canorus, MuseScore etc) and it would be helpful to 
> > > know which to choose.
> > My interest in Denemo is to be a "complete" front end to LilyPond. What
> > could this mean - complete? LilyPond incorporates a scheme interpreter,
> > so you could write a LilyPond file to do anything, and you cannot write
> > a front end to do anything. 
> > My idea is to use Denemo to enter/edit the notes of a piece of music and
> > to allow this to be supplemented with directions in the LilyPond
> > language to say how to print the notes on paper.
> > The first bit is achieved by displaying the notes in musical notation,
> > so that you know what you have entered. (So I'm assuming the user can
> > read music). And you must be able to find particular bits of your music
> > and alter it quickly.
> > The second bit would have two levels: someone who does not know the
> > LilyPond language. They can use canned LilyPond tweaks which come
> > complete with a menu item name, display etc. My example is Guitar
> > Fingerings, by choosing to load menu items for guitar music an item
> > called Fingering would appear in the menu and the user can invoke it,
> > type a number for the fingering (in response to a prompt) and the
> > appropriate fingering appears in print, and at least some indication
> > appears in Denemo.
> > The second level would be with some understanding of LilyPond the user
> > edits the LilyPond for some completely novel effect, but keeps the
> > ability to return to Denemo to change a note here and there, or even
> > completely re-write some of the notes. As long as the novel effect is
> > outside of the notes being changed, it is carried over.
> > I would be most interested in knowing about other projects, as I don't
> > seem to find the time to look in to them myself. (I know they would
> > never really support figured bass, so I'm not that strongly motivated I
> > guess!)
> > Thank you for your interest.
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > 
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