On Thu, 2017-03-02 at 15:07 +0000, Richard Shann wrote: > On Thu, 2017-03-02 at 11:59 +0000, John Pye wrote: > > Dear Denemo, > > > > Firstly I must apologise because I have looked through the manual, > > tried several things and still can’t solve my problem. It is > probably > > simple, but as a novice I can’t find a solution, so I will be very > > grateful if you can help. > > > > I have produced a simple score of about 50 bars, just for saxophone. > > When I click on print preview, some lines may have 8 bars in while > > others may only have 2. There are two lines of bars which extend to > > the side of the page, > > running off the right hand edge is described in the manual actually
I didn't have time to look it up earlier but it's at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=denemo.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/denemo-manual.html;hb=HEAD#toc-Section-2 the relevant bit is this: 19.2 Barlines The important thing to know about barlines in Denemo is that they are not just graphical marks on paper - e.g. you cannot put a repeat end barline followed by a repeat start barline and expect both to print - instead you must use a repeat-end-start barline. This is because you are telling Denemo about the music, not about how to draw it - the repeat-end-start barline is drawn completely differently if it occurs at the end of a line, for instance. Another useful thing to understand is that the “barlines” that appear in the Denemo display are not really barlines at all, just a convenient breaking up of the music into “chunks”. Normally, of course, you will use one chunk per measure so they will correspond with the typeset barlines. There is a relationship between line/page breaks and barlines: you cannot have line/page breaks at any point in the music, there must be a barline there. However this can be a “hidden” barline, so that option is in the menu too. One curious consequence of this is what happens if you contrive to input notes that are timed so that a note is always playing at every barline; normally you use tied notes for this, but if (by mistake) you leave one bar short in duration you can find that none of the following typeset bars start with a note, and the result is that the line cannot be broken - it extends off the right hand side of the page. Richard _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
