Re: [Denemo-devel] Scheme book

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 09:10 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 23:09 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > 
> > So we have two methods of note entry then? Moving the cursor method
> > and
> > the other directly assigning it?  
> 
> ?? moving the cursor does not enter notes. Oh, I see what you mean,
> there are all the commands that enter a note at the cursor position, and
> there are the ones that edit the note that the cursor_x is on by moving
> it to the cursor_y, and ones to edit the note that the cursor_x is on by
> moving it to the nearest N (where N is a,b, ...c) - nearest to cursor_y,
> that is and ones to apply one sharpening/flattening ...

No. I actually meant was a wrapper that:

Created a chord object of a specified duration. 
Assigning the value mid_c_offset to the note structure. 
Then inserting the chord object into the score.   

This would insert into the score in the cursor_x position and
currentmeasnum. The function could just auto advance cursor_x and
currentmeasnum as needed.  

Is allowing users to directly create objects too low level? 

> We are adding a a general interface to edit a note, something Nils
> suggested (well, even more generally, edit the properties of an object).
> A lot of the others would not be convenient for scripting - on the other
> hand the interface we have created here *could* be used from the
> keyboard - you would be typing in the LilyPond language
> 
> cis''2 d'4 d4 ....
> 
> and everytime you typed the space it would insert a note. 

Is this part of the scripting interface or something slightly different?

Jeremiah

> This was never
> done, I guess because you have to specify the octave every time. Instead
> what was done (the Classic mode) was to mimic LilyPond's \relative note
> entry (even though, when output, Denemo outputs all the octave
> indications explicitly).
> Richard
>