Re: Feature request - jazz / bigband notation and caesurae

[Paul Scott]

Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
> In message <address@hidden>, Han-Wen Nienhuys 
> <address@hidden> writes
> > address@hidden schreef:
> > > Seeing as I've made enough of a fuss about other things ...
> > >  I've seen somebody else ask about modern "tram-line" caesurae, and 
> > > I want things like a free-format gliss ...
> > >  What sort of price am I looking at to sponsor these - I guess it's 
> > > just a new character in a font?
> > >  Basically the four things I can think of at the moment are
> > >  1) tram-line caesurae
> >
> > Basically, the straight version of the tram-line we have now?  I can 
> > add those for free with any of the following features.
>
> Yes please. Seeing as this is a modern caesura, I would suggest you 
> alter the definition of the gregorian caesura to override the modern, 
> and make the modern available by default. That way, it won't break any 
> existing scores, but will give new scores the modern version by default.
> > > 2/3) straight-line and zigzag glisses WITHOUT a terminating note
> >
> > You could make a gliss to a transparent note.
> >
> > But  I can also add it as feature. Price: 130 EUR.
> Ummm. Thinking about it, I'm not sure... I looked up hidden notes in 
> the manual, and I'm not still not sure how to do it. Hidden notes have 
> a duration, and what happens if I'm in 2/4 and want to gliss down a 
> minim...
>
> Bear in mind also, it's jazz, and I'm a trombonist. What if I want to 
> gliss *slowly* UP TO a minim? That's going to be a nightmare 
> notation!!! I need my minim right-justified in the "note space" and 
> the gliss occupies the minim-width.
>
> You had a problem with terminating one-note crescendi etc. I thought 
> you had zero-length notes and then I tried it - it doesn't work :-) 
> Can I suggest you fix both that problem and mine by making 0 a valid 
> note length that also suppresses the note from printing. Then I can 
> gliss from/to a zero length note, and your cresc/descresc can 
> terminate on a zero note :-)
>
> Plus I need to be able to flag a note as right-justified so I can 
> gliss to it :-)
At this point I agree that I don't know how to do it either.  So now we 
need more money to get these features.  Any more people willing to 
contribute?

Paul