[Denemo-devel] Locating music by clicking in the Print Preview

[Richard Shann]

We have had point and click for some time - you click with the mouse on
an object in the final typeset score (in the print preview window) and
the Denemo cursor is moved to that note in that staff in that movement.
Now, the place you clicked is highlighted in the print preview window.
This is a convenience if you are working your way through the printed
output making corrections and you want to see where you have gotten to.

It also is just one step away from dragging objects (like rehearsal
marks) in the final typeset print out and having the change applied
automatically to the input Denemo score. This is useful for those
occasions when LilyPond's output is not quite what you would want.

What this technology will also allow is placing references to source
manuscripts, facsimiles at points in the Denemo score. At present we can
store snapshots of a original source manuscript of the music with the
measures. This requires quite a bit of storage and is done for the whole
of the piece. 
Instead, we will be able to place "links" to the manuscript which when
clicked on will open the pdf at the given location (highlighted) so that
the editorial process can be easily reviewed. The links can be inserted
by the inverse process, clicking on the pdf at the point we are about to
transcribe will insert the link, as well as giving a marker in the
source pdf to show where we are.
The source manuscripts/facsimiles would be displayed in a different
window from the print preview window, of course, but most of the
programming is the same - just more evince widgets and some filechooser
to load them up.

Richard