Re: [Denemo-devel] Barlines and time signatures

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 08:44 -0400, Ellen Schwindt wrote:
> Hello developers and denemo devotees
> 
> 
> I'm trying to put in dotted lines for barlines as they show up in
> Arvo Part's Magnificat and other music without meter. Is there a
> command for that?

Well, it is not built-in to Denemo. You can create one as follows

Score->Typesetter->Custom Barline

It asks for a name, I took the default "A", but you could call it
"Dotted" I guess.
Then it asks for the appearance the barline should have in all the
various positions - by looking up the LilyPond documentation I saw that
exclamation mark "!" is the special sign for a dotted barline, so I
typed that for every position.

That defines the barline type. Then under Directives->Menu of Objects to
Insert you choose BarA (or BarDotted if you called it that) and it
inserts the needed barline at the cursor.
> 
> 
> Also I want to hide all the time signatures (and there are very many)
> for the whole score. Is there a global command for that so I don't
> have to select hid for each and every staff's time signatures?

Again not (AFAIK) actually built-in to Denemo. There is syntax in
LilyPond to do this, but I think you may prefer to do this:

View->Scheme

This gives a window which can hold instructions for Denemo to execute.

Position the Cursor on the topmost staff, at the very start.
Click on Record in the Scheme window.
Then 
Time Signature->Hide

Then 

Staffs/Voices->Move To Staff Down

As you do each of these, the command is recorded in the scheme window
-it records (d-HideTimesig) (d-MoveToStaffDown)
- and it makes a funny noise every time it records your instruction.

Now turn off Record in the Scheme window. (!!!)

Now you can just click "Execute" in the scheme window repeatedly until
all the time signatures are hidden. What it is doing each time you press
Execute is hiding the time signature and moving down to the staff below
ready to do it again.

You should delete all the text in the Scheme window before you save,
otherwise it will ask you if you want to execute it every time you open
the file, which you don't want to do.

Also - don't miss the turning-off-the-record step! Otherwise it will
carry on recording everything you do!

HTH

Richard





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> thank you for the help,
> -Ellen Schwindt
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