Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

[Urs Liska]

Am 20. Februar 2018 18:42:03 MEZ schrieb Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>:
>Hi Stefano,
>
>> I am undecided on what the best interface for it would be though,
>since as Urs already mentioned there are trade-offs with each
>possibility. I too think that a discussion should be had about that, to
>see what use-cases and needs arise. How do you usually do that here? Do
>you make a new thread asking users for feedback?
>
>I personally think we could just keep chatting here…?
>
>Other than Jan-Peter, I may be the person who has used the EE the most
>often for the most scores (well over 50 by now). Here are a couple of
>thoughts, based on my experiences:
>
>1. Use of \editionModList and other convenience "compressors" can, in
>many cases, make for maintenance difficulties. I often find myself
>scanning back and forth through my (sometimes quite large!) edition
>file to try to see why a certain grob is behaving a certain way, only
>to discover a "hidden" mod in some \editionModList. Putting all the
>compressed mods together [at the top of the edition file] helps to some
>degree, but it's not a silver bullet.

interesting point.

>
>2. Single mods are definitely easier to "find and replace" on than
>compressed mods.
>
>3. The most redundant stuff is the "wrapper" stuff (\editionMod
>edition-ref context-ref), so a simplified way of
>
>4. Things would be way easier if the EE (and/or Frescobaldi) had a
>method to highlight (colour-ing the grobs?) all mods, and a linking
>method to navigate to the correct spot in the edition file. There was
>an example of this [colouring part] some time ago, but I don't know if
>it was "taken to the goal line"; it's worth looking at.
>

IIRC Jan-Peter recently pushed point-and-click support.

>In terms of use cases, I can pull a bunch of concrete ones from my
>current engravings, if that would be helpful. Let me know!
>
>Best,
>Kieren.
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