Re: [Denemo-devel] Involvement

[Éloi Rivard]

An efficient way to discover and find commands could simply to sort them in categories. I made a mockup of a "command manager" with a simpler interface than the current one.

You can see command groups on the left. Let's imagine a command can appear in several group, with a tag mechanism for instance. The "Lorem Ipsum" is the selected command description.

The top toolbar contains several items. The command set list shows all the sets reachable by the program (users and system ones) plus a special entry "Create a new command set". The first button allows you to save the set, the second one to load the default set. The third button is the current "find" one: user type a shortcut and the corresponding command is found. The search bar allows you to search in the commands (let's say name and description) instantly.

With such a system, beginners will be able to find a command as they are sorted and have explicit names, and experienced users will be able to find a command by typing its name directly or with its shortcut.

What do you think ?

2012/10/27 Richard Shann <address@hidden>

On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 19:10 +0200, Éloi Rivard wrote:

> And maybe you can consider a fourth way to use denemo. Users doesn't
> write music at all, but just want to read existing partitions. That's
> the case for my brass band : musicians just play the partitions with
> Noteworthy, and play music over it. They are helped with what plays
> the software, and the moving cursor on the partition.

Denemo would need more work on the MIDI generation to make this
attractive - the MIDI playback is there just to check (by ear) that the
notes are correct. Even this is incomplete - it does not play grace
notes.
There will be other possible uses for Denemo - particularly music
analysis (we have a routine that checks a composition for consecutives
already), and I hope people will develop these. I was thinking about
things that Denemo could be recommended for right now. Right now it is
strongest at entering music quickly, accurately, and musically, and
delivering a high quality printed score without manual tweaks to the
appearance (thanks to LilyPond). I don't know how it compares with other
programs for playing along with the playback...

Richard

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