Re: [Denemo-devel] chord symbols

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 10:47 -0500, Brian Mauter wrote:
> I tried the chord staff thing once but it wasn’t what I was expecting.
> This time I did it exactly as you prescribed and it looks great.
> Thank you Andreas and Richard!  I even figured out how to add a Bass
> Inversion.  I wasn’t expecting it on the Chord menu because editing
> chord symbols is on the notes/rests menu.  It makes sense now and I’ll
> know next time.
You can always collect together the commands you want to use into a
palette, (and activate them via p,<label> ENTER).
> 
> 
> Might I bother with one more question?  What’s the correct way to add
> a Da Capo?  In my example, I want the D.C. at approximately the fourth
> beat of the second to last measure which will hopefully let the chord
> symbols shift back down like on the other lines.
> 
> 
> I tried using my chord staff with a three beat Gm chord and a quarter
> spacer, but nothing renders when I add a D.C. al fine or a regular
> textual annotation, which isn’t surprising—the staff is hidden.  I
> don’t want to break my whole measure rest on the first visible staff
> because of a technicality either.

I guess you should drag this in the Print View. There was a bug, fixed a
couple of days ago, it meant you could only drag once (after that, it
would drag relative to its original position, not its new position). See
http://www.denemo.org/~jjbenham/gub/uploads/?C=M;O=A
for the latest version.

Richard

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> -Brian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > On Sep 2, 2016, at 4:40 AM, Andreas Schneider <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > You have to use a separate staff at the top for the chord symbols,
> > which you turn into a chord staff as Richard described (from memory:
> > Staffs > Staff Properties > Chord Staff On/Off). You enter the
> > chords as notes (e.g. c e g for c major), yet they display as chord
> > symbols in the print (but not in the Denemo display). If you're
> > using a MIDI keyboard, you can use the sustain pedal for entering
> > chords (i.e. several notes at once).
> > 
> > Andreas
> > -- 
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> > gesendet.
> > 
> 
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