Hijacking my own thread to keep the reference ...
By now I'm quite happy about the interface to show sample documents to
demonstrate music fonts in Frescobaldi (for reference I copy the link to
https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/pull/1075#issuecomment-423532714
(with a screencast) from a previous post).
The next step will be to
a) add the ability to select three text fonts too and use them in the
display, and
b) provide an interface to generating the font selection LilyPond code
for insertion in the current document. (As a follow-up step the font
dialog will also be made available from the Score Wizard)
Now I'm a bit insecure how to organize the GUI, and I think it would be
good to have some feedback before continuing.
Right now I have a dialog with two tabs for *text* (screenshot attached)
and for *music* (see other posts in this thread).
* The text tab lists all available fonts, displays a sample and allows
to quickly find stuff through incremental filtering.
* The music tab lists the available music fonts (for the given
LilyPond version) and engraves various preview scores.
What I now want to do is an interface to compose the \paper {} block
code for selecting the music. My original idea had been to have a
separate tab for that, but now I find that inconvenient. Since there is
now a "live" preview available I think one should have *one*
tab/interface where one can choose text and music fonts and have the
preview available to see how it looks. If such a tab is there it could
generate the LilyPond code in the background, and one would switch to
another tab to finally export the results (either to the clipboard or to
be inserted at the current cursor position or to be passed back to the
score wizard).
But I'm really not clear how such a single tab could be organized with
regard to screen estate so all options have enough space to "breathe"
while at the same time providing access to all required features at
once. Plus: I think I should take care not to simply make it too big
because I'm misled by my 1900x1080 monitor resolution. Engraving is a
DTP use case where generous screen estate sort-of should be expected,
but dialogs that actually exceed a smaller monitor area are of course
absolutely to be avoided.
What do you think? What would be helpful as an interface with the least
need for context switching?
Thanks
Urs
Am 18.09.2018 um 12:51 schrieb Urs Liska:
Hi all,
I'm going to pick up the work on Frescobaldi's "Show available fonts"
dialog, which I had started giving a fundamental overhaul before the
holidays.
I'm looking for a nice template document that can be used to
demonstrate a music font. It should not be too "heavy", and ideally it
would show off the font at a glance within the space seen in the
attached screenshot.
Just like the Score Wizard Preview dialog the space will automatically
get scroll bars so the document *may* be larger but I'd prefer if one
can see the essentials at first sight.
I'd be glad about some "community contributions" here.
Best
Urs
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