Re: [Denemo-devel] Polymetrics

[Richard Shann]

One thing I noticed - in the first example I sent you I had swapped the
staffs round. What I didn't realize is that you had (very sensibly)
defined start and end contexts for the two staffs, so swapping them
would create an erroneous file.
Denemo should warn if you try to do this: I will fix this.
Richard

On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 18:11 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 17:15 +0300, Kaspar wrote:
> > OK, thanks, it prints now.
> > I see that it's not as straight forward procedure as one would hope :)
> No but once done it can be put in a gallery for others to use.
> > 
> > Hopefully it gets there eventually...
> > 
> > As I'm new here, what are exactly the future horizons for Denemo?
> > Be a complete front end for LilyPond, or is this just an additional feature?
> > 
> > The reason for asking is - there are some other free notation programs 
> > there that are being 
> > developed right now (Canorus, MuseScore etc) and it would be helpful to 
> > know which to choose.
> My interest in Denemo is to be a "complete" front end to LilyPond. What
> could this mean - complete? LilyPond incorporates a scheme interpreter,
> so you could write a LilyPond file to do anything, and you cannot write
> a front end to do anything. 
> My idea is to use Denemo to enter/edit the notes of a piece of music and
> to allow this to be supplemented with directions in the LilyPond
> language to say how to print the notes on paper.
> The first bit is achieved by displaying the notes in musical notation,
> so that you know what you have entered. (So I'm assuming the user can
> read music). And you must be able to find particular bits of your music
> and alter it quickly.
> The second bit would have two levels: someone who does not know the
> LilyPond language. They can use canned LilyPond tweaks which come
> complete with a menu item name, display etc. My example is Guitar
> Fingerings, by choosing to load menu items for guitar music an item
> called Fingering would appear in the menu and the user can invoke it,
> type a number for the fingering (in response to a prompt) and the
> appropriate fingering appears in print, and at least some indication
> appears in Denemo.
> The second level would be with some understanding of LilyPond the user
> edits the LilyPond for some completely novel effect, but keeps the
> ability to return to Denemo to change a note here and there, or even
> completely re-write some of the notes. As long as the novel effect is
> outside of the notes being changed, it is carried over.
> I would be most interested in knowing about other projects, as I don't
> seem to find the time to look in to them myself. (I know they would
> never really support figured bass, so I'm not that strongly motivated I
> guess!)
> Thank you for your interest.
> Richard
> 
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