Re: [Denemo-devel] No General Purpose User's list?

[Philip Rhoades]

Richard,


On 2013-12-19 23:30, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 21:41 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > Richard,
> >
> > Ignore this first question - I lost a couple of backslashes when
> > creating the script - generating PDFs OK now . .
> >
> > BTW, I didn't notice that your mail wasn't coming from the list before 
> > -
> > I thought my Q was going to the list . .
>
> I think you may have sent your first email before you were subscribed 
> to
> the list and things got a little messed up.
>
> About that message, it means that the LilyPond generated is invalid 
> (you
> will see this in the Print View window when you try to typeset it).


Right.


> About your general approach - editing .denemo files:
>         Although this allows you to exploit your ability to write your scripts
> in Ruby, I suspect you are doing a lot more work, and getting a lot 
> less
> for your buck. There are already Scheme procedures to generate random
> notes and you could just adapt those. (See the NotationMagick menu,
> right click on one of the commands that still works (!) and choose get
> script, then you can see how it is written in the Scheme window,
> View->Scheme).
> The (!) is because I see that something has broken most of those
> scripts, there are others in Educational menu which are working fine -
> e.g. Note Name Recogntion ones.


OK, I will have look - I have never used Lisp or Scheme but I'll give it 
a shot . .

Thanks,

Phil.


> HTH
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Phil.
> >
> >
> > On 2013-12-19 21:17, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > > Richard,
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2013-12-19 19:36, Richard Shann wrote:
> > >> On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 11:08 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > >>> People,
> > >>>
> > >>> It looks like there is no general purpose list -
> > >>
> > >> The name of this list is unfortunate, but not easy to change.
> > >> Everything
> > >> comes here.
> > >
> > >
> > > OK, good - see the first question below.
> > >
> > >
> > >>> so I guess asking
> > >>> non-development questions here is frowned upon?  I was looking for
> > >>> other
> > >>> people who might have been using Denemo for learning to read music -
> > >>> specifically tailored for classical guitar . . I have some ideas and
> > >>> questions from the brief, but very interesting, progress I have made
> > >>> with Denemo in the last day
> > >> Ask away! - As you may have discovered you can write simple scripts to
> > >> assist learning as well as to generate practice material etc.
> > >
> > >
> > > I had a look at the file format of the denemo file and wrote a little
> > > Ruby script to generate new files according to command line parameters
> > > (on Fedora 19) so that I could create scores that would allow me to
> > > practise just on one string (with random notes on that string) - this
> > > works fine but I just noticed that sometimes Denemo complains that the
> > > the PDF or PNG is non-existant in the /tmp/DenemoXXXXXX dir when I try
> > > to open some of these Ruby-created files.  I guess I could go and look
> > > at the code but is there a quick fix for this? - I tried just deleting
> > > the tmp dir so it was re-created the next time I opened the file but
> > > that doesn't help . .
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Phil.

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