On Fri, 2020-09-18 at 05:49 -0400, aaron mehl wrote: > Hi Richard thanks for the heads up, you were right I needed to post > the script in order to get it working. > The conventions you mentioned of <> () "" are they discussed in the > docs since I am totally a newbie on this it would be nice to have had > this written out.
well the convention of writing <your name> meaning that you write your name in the place where <your name> appears is just a common parlance among techies. The () are the indicators for a list in the Scheme programming language - the most fundamental bit of syntax. The "" are also Scheme syntax denoting a string. But the convention that the Scheme procedure corresponding to a Denemo command of name <thecommandname> is d-<thecommandname> is mentioned in the docs in section 29, Writing Scheme Scripts. However, most people pick up this stuff by seeing examples and by testing out a small sample. So before creating all 18 shortcuts it would make sense to create just one of the note-insertion commands, check that it works when executed from the menu, then create just one of the (d-AddKeybinding ...) procedures and test it out by executing it in the Scheme window and seeing if the keypress does indeed execute the desired command and then turning that into the mode-switch command. When that is working you would add more of the same using the right- click->"Save Script from Scheme Window" to override the first version of your mode change command with the new keybindings. HTH Richard
