Re: [abcusers] Gscore 0.0.8 laetmotive released

2004-12-20 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Sébastien Tricaud wrote:
Hi Folks,
Gscore 0.0.8 laetmotive is out.
This release focuses on bug fixing and improved score editing.
Hi,
I read about your Gscore 0.0.8, downloaded it, compiled it, and run it on 
my Linux Fedora Core 2 system.

But looking at it, clicking everywhere, checking out all the menus, after 
2 weeks I still don't have no idea how to create my first simple score. 
The screenshots on the website look nice, but I haven't seen anything like 
it on my own screen yet.

Apparently User-friendlyness still has to be improved, even if I'm doing 
something completely wrong.

What I need is a small getting started document. For example: what do I 
have to do to enter the first bars of Jingle Bells in the key of G major 
? Once I have succeeded doing that I will find out the rest for myself I'm 
sure.

Afew years ago, when I first attempted to write a few bars of abc music, 
written with vim and processed with abcm2ps, it only took me a few minutes 
to have success. Graphical frontends are supposed to make things easier, 
but the ones I have seen so far hardly do that.

--
Martin Tarenskeen


Re: [abcusers] Gscore 0.0.8 laetmotive released

2004-12-20 Thread rwfranz
Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Sébastien Tricaud wrote:
Gscore 0.0.8 laetmotive is out.
This release focuses on bug fixing and improved score editing.
But looking at it, clicking everywhere, checking out all the menus, 
after 2 weeks I still don't have no idea how to create my first simple 
score. The screenshots on the website look nice, but I haven't seen 
anything like it on my own screen yet.

...
Afew years ago, when I first attempted to write a few bars of abc 
music, written with vim and processed with abcm2ps, it only took me a 
few minutes to have success. Graphical frontends are supposed to make 
things easier, but the ones I have seen so far hardly do that.
Noteedit seems to be pretty good, so far. Haven't tried multiple staves, 
yet. Didn't take me very long to figure out how to make things work. You 
do need midi working to hear sound, though.

Roger
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