Re: [Denemo-devel] Adding textual notes to denemo music

[Richard Shann]

I have added some design notes based on this at
http://denemo.org/index.php/Textual_Annotations
and put some forward-proofing into the cloning code for cloning a
DenemoDirective which holds textual annotations.
We have very little to do here. Matthias - do you have a slot-in
replacement for GtkTextView. Specifically, something that is a widget
(and hence is a GObject)?


Richard


On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 19:12 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> Nils mentioned something in passing: it would be nice to be able to add
> comments to a composition in denemo. For example, ideas about how to
> develop certain passages, etc.
> This sort of facility is useful for transcribers too: making notes of
> places where the manuscript is obscure etc. In fact, when making
> editions of historical works it is often required to put a critical
> appending listing the places where editorial intervention has taken
> place.
> Well, we actually have most of this ready already - it just needs
> scripting. That is, you can add a denemo directive containing the
> information that you wish to store.
> What is lacking is a multi-line editor for the information callable from
> scheme.
> Then we can add information at the score level, as well as comments on
> individual chords etc, and call up an editor to view & edit the
> information at will. And, with a suitable script we could create a list
> in the LilyPond of editorial interventions which would reference the
> measure & chord which the comment applies to.
> 
> The only tricky aspect would be if we wanted to keep the editor open
> while being able to edit the denemo. The problem would arise if the
> chord that the editor was on was deleted. We do have a field for storing
> this editor (the graphic field of the directive) and I think it may
> already be the case that deletion of a directive will destroy the
> graphic widget (e.g. for the case of directives which show as buttons).
> 
> So this proposed text edit widget could be very useful: the main feature
> would be that typing in the widget would modify the GString* that it
> relates to. (We can do this because the total amount of text is quite
> tiny).
> 
> Richard
> 
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