Re: [Denemo-devel] customizing layout templates

[Federico Bruni]

Il 26/01/2013 20:26, Richard Shann ha scritto:
> On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 19:56 +0100, Federico Bruni wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > I'm playing with the Score Layout.
> > AFAICS editing it in "graphical mode" is not that easy. For example, I
> > don't know how to add a Staff.
> > So I'm using the Lilypond text mode, which works great. But I have a few
> > questions.
> >
> > 0) Where can I save my own templates?
> File->Save->Save Template will save it for you (somewhere
> under .denemo-xxx).

Well, pretty easy

> > Currently I have this:
> >
> > ls ~/.denemo-1.0.0~rc8/
> > actions  autosave.denemo  denemohistory  denemorc  state.ini

You are allowed to choose the directory, but I see that after opening 
Save>Save template a template subdir has been automatically added to 
.denemo-xxx

$ ls ~/.denemo-1.0.0~rc8/
actions  autosave.denemo  denemohistory  denemorc  state.ini  templates

> > Actually, it seems that I cannot edit the default layout.
> Correct. The default layouts are those Denemo generates (full score,
> movement, part). Custom layouts are generated by the user and are saved
> to disk with the file.
>
> I think at the moment there is nothing to say open this file and select
> custom layout <name>, but you can do this. You would have a short scheme
> script
> in your case it could be simply:
>
> (d-SelectFirstCustomLayout)
>
> If you put this in the scheme window and then save the file then it will
> be run each time the file is opened. (There are further commands to
> iterate through the layouts, get the names etc, which are used for
> printing all layouts).

I've tried this (see attached image), but it doesn't work.
I still have to open View>Score layout, click on lilypond text and then 
click typeset in the print window.

> >   When I do, a
> > custom layout is automatically created. I've looked some template file
> > included in denemo and I've seen that they have just the default layout.
> Mostly they are ancient...
> > I wonder if this is going to be a problem (see next point)
> >
> >
> > 2) (maybe related to the previous point) Try the attached template. When
> > you start entering notes, in the print window you'll see just the Staff.
> > You have to click on Typeset in the print window and only then the
> > TabStaff will appear.
> So if you use the above script it should typeset the selected layout
> from the start. (I haven't tried this...)

As said above, it seems that it doesn't work.
What can I try?

--
Federico

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