Re: [Denemo-devel] Question about developing notation software for solfeggio

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 21:37 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
> Some observations.
> 
> I have created a pallette with Labels C+> etc & the given short script 
> for each, and this seems to work. I have a job to do transcribing some 
> movements of a Britten symphony and I am intriqued as to whether this is 
> quicker than my usual combination of keys to give tone and keys to give 
> duration & spaces etc. So will continue to experiment.
> 
> I am getting some odd effects from the + and - keys.
> 
> My Keypad + and - are fine for sharpening./flattening an existing note. 
> But don't work as prefixes.
> 
> My keys next to Backspace are :   _above-,  +above=    and then backspace.
> 
> Shifted, they behave like the keypad (just seen the Edit Note 
> Shift+equal+Add, so that is documented)
> 
> Unshifted, they act as presetters, indefinitely, not just for the next 
> note**

This may be a regression, as I took a knife to some ancient code in this
area recently. Please test the same thing on 2.0.14 and see if that
works the same and report the bug if not.


> 
> So if I press ==, i.e. double equals, unshifted, all notes from there on 
> are doublesharps (or single sharp if they should be a flat.
> 
> I am not sure this is particularly sensible (though I haven't consulted 
> the manual to find out if it documented this way).
> 
> Joe
> 
> **PS I have on several occasions nearly torn my hair out because to stop 
> this happening (I have only just analysed it properly) I have had to 
> turn Denemo off and then on again.
> 
> PPS is there a combination of keys that pre-transposes notes up or down? 

Do you mean a sort of mode - "transpose on entry"? - I'm sure there
isn't.

> I have had Hans' 
Haris' ???
> problem entering an e and getting D and having to 
> specify f to get the E. 

I don't think I've ever seen this (though I only use the PC keyboard to
change a note that I come across that is wrong, most of the time I'm
entering notes from the MIDI keyboard).
If you can get it to happen it might be worth trying the menu item
directly, checking that the LilyPond generated is wrong as well,
listening to the note played ... it does sound completely bizarre!

Richard