On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 22:44 +0000, Robin Henderson wrote: > Thank you Richard for your reply. I've done a reply all as requested. > I've attached my broken version for your perusal.
Thank you for this - I have uncovered two bugs as a result! What I did was to open the Score Properties Editor and I saw there the first Denemo Directive was "Typeset Barlines Literally" This is an advanced sort of command for people who are typesetting unusual music where they want complete control over the positioning of barlines (they don't want them to be "correct"). The first bug is that the help for this command is too terse, it doesn't warn you that once you have done this you can't expect the typesetter to guess how you want things beamed - you may have barlines anywhere. The second "bug" - a wish actually - is that it would be good if, having found some Denemo Directive like that you could go straight to the Command Center to find out more about that command - e.g. where it is in the menu system. As it is, I had to type the label "Typeset Barlines Literally" into the Command Center search to find it. Having found it, I could then turn it off and all was well with the beaming. > I'm gradually getting to grips with Denemo and have now finished of my > first opus (probably too grand a title, considering), complete with beams! I can see one wrinkle - you have a bunch of rests at the beginning - probably you wanted an upbeat (pickup, anacrusis) but (I suspect) because you created a click track before creating the upbeat bar you found it tricky (?). You can delete the rests (and edit the clicks in the click track) so that you have the correct duration for the partial bar at the start and then use the shortcut "u" for the Upbeat command to make the bar an upbeat. (Thinking about it, this upbeat is likely the reason you stumbled on "Typeset Barlines Literally", but the command you needed was in the measures menu. Try searching for "upbeat" or "pickup" or "anacrusis" in the Command Center) > Next step is to get a midi keyboard and am considering a AKM320 (sounds > like a semi-automatic weapon) any thoughts/recommendations? That looks like it should do the entering of pitches just fine - I see the bad reviews are mostly about trying to do more than just entering pitches, e.g. actually playing it as a musical instrument etc, and the usual unfortunate souls who get a dud one. My M-Audio 49 was a fair bit more $$$ and I have noticed that it emits occasional bursts of slight pitch bend commands (Denemo will ignore these unless you ask it to respond in some way to them). That's after a few years use. Also my foot pedal stopped working - haven't looked into it, as it turned out to be a blessing in disguise - the uses that I put it to I could do better by other means. Richard _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
