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Re: [Denemo-devel] Lyric Entry.
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Nils Gey |
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Re: [Denemo-devel] Lyric Entry. |
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Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:11:26 +0200 |
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:09:45 +0100
Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 11:05 +0200, Nils Gey wrote:
> > I still think its a better way not to put each syllable under each note but
> > start on the first note
> do you mean stay on the first note?
Yes, stay on the first note. I have all the text in one place then. Of course
it does not show the right placement currently, which would be an additional
feature request. But I can imagine where they are very accurate and print
preview is just a second away. Denemo does not show how it will look, it only
provides easy ways... :)
Nils
>
> > and then use the lilypond syntax with _ -- and so on.
> >
> > I have done this several times in Denemo now and its working. The only bad
> > thing
> ?? if you do mean stay on the first note, then the display will not show
> you which syllables will come on which note, which I would think is
> crucial.
>
> > is the edit window which is just crap. Its would be a good start to just
> Unfortunately this "just" hides a heap of C programming to assign the
> syllables from the textbox to the notes. If you are not going to assign
> them to the notes then the LilyPond window text box will suffice for a
> text entry window for lyrics. (True, I haven't got round to making the
> lyric output editable in that window, but then no-one has asked...)
>
> Anyway, try the new continuous entry script: you just type hitting
> return for each syllable and return on its own to stop. No mouse.
>
> I think I will do the copy & paste as well, since the lyrics are often
> already in text form and this will enable a simple script to let you
> insert a syllable moving all the subsequent syllables along, or split a
> syllable.
>
>
> Richard
>
> > make it not a single-line-widget but a multiline textbox.
> >
> > Nils
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:01:39 +0100
> > Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > You can now script the lyric entry command:
> > >
> > > (d-EditScript "hello")
> > >
> > > puts the lyric "hello" under the note at the cursor.
> > > I just wanted to do some lyrics and saw how crude the interface was
> > > (much worse than the one for entering figured basses!). So I finished
> > > off this bit of the scheme interface.
> > >
> > > I may add a command for entering lyrics from the (text) selection -
> > > there may be a guile function for getting the selection directly, and
> > > then it is just a matter of calling d-EditScript and d-NextNote for each
> > > syllable.
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
> > >
> > >
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Nils Gey <address@hidden>
Re: [Denemo-devel] Lyric Entry., Richard Shann, 2009/06/18