Re: [Denemo-devel] The staff indentation and the layout block.

[Nils Gey]

This is all very good news because it makes the lilypond output flexible from 
within Denemo.

But its still the question how do deliever all this options to a beginner or 
not-ly-person AND integrate this with the current, string-based system.

So just clickable dialogs/a list of options are not good enough because they 
don't fit in the system and could easily create a mess with denemo-cirectives 
created by the user and by a hypothetical denemo-list overwriting each other.

I can think of a a menu which could be found in the texteditor-window for the 
directives which is one-way ("fire and forget"). All it does would be inserting 
strings to the textwindow, maybe with a describing comment. From this point the 
user is responsible.
So it fits with the current system. 

Think of it as an advanced online help showing up only in the right context and 
with automatic copy and paste.

If its in an easy format (like xml) I could add all these options and 
descriptions. The goal would be to easily choose&insert these 
global/movement-layout options.

Nils 



On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:41:00 +0100
Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have been looking into the \header{}, \paper{} and \layout{} blocks
> and their meaning in LilyPond, with a view to completing the set of
> DenemoDirectives so that you can easily customize the LilyPond output
> from scripts. I've come across the fact that with the present Denemo
> code you can change the indent of the first staff of a piece, which Nils
> was asking about recently:
> 
> \layout {indent = 0.0}
> 
> is the magic needed to get rid of it altogether, and it can be put in
> the Movements->Change Properties->lilypond_before field. I think it then
> applies to *all* the movements in the piece; I think that if instead the
> fragment is placed inside a scoreblock it applies only to the one
> movement.
> My plan is to replace the lilypond_before etc fields with
> DenemoDirectives.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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