Re: Do we really offer the future?

[Urs Liska]

Am 22.04.2015 um 13:47 schrieb Trevor Daniels:
> James Harkins wrote Wednesday, April 22, 2015 4:24 AM
>
> > I think there's one command in Finale that demonstrates a major obstacle to
> > widespread adoption of LilyPond: Delete Measure Stack. This is an extremely
> > common need when editing scores, and raw LilyPond code offers no clean,
> > easy way to do it.
> >
> > "So how do I delete bar 47 from this LP score?"
> One way is to enter your music in parallel (see my recent note about this).  
> Deleting a bar is then a simple matter of selecting a few adjacent lines and 
> hitting delete.

But one has to admit that this more or less requires you to enter your 
music accordingly *beforehand*.
And I think with this you'd deprive yourself of significant advantages 
that LilyPond's horizontal apporach has regarding stability.

I think assistance in this vertical handling (which I also would 
consider extremely helpful) is something that editors could/should 
provide support for. Maybe Frescobaldi's python-ly can be of help here.
Or the idea of selecting a (vertical) range of notes and then determine 
the surrounding measure and delete its content. Not trivial but should 
be doable.

Urs

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