On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
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> Hi folks!
>
> I recently started a small piece of music using rosegarden
> for typing in the music and doing the rest with pmx, which
> worked just fine. I just noted several small bugs in the
> program, sometimes it crashes when having pressed the save
> button or other buttons from dialogs. Sometimes it has
> problems with accidentals or notes are somehow shifting
> around (especially in connection with the Undo function).
> What I'm missing (except of a general update with better
> support for pmx ;) is the possibility to see the bar number,
> an improved beaming (did not check autobeam though) which
> orientates on the meter, not on the order I typed it in,
> better meter support (not just the time like 4/4) and
> support for long rests (like rm4 in pmx :).
>
> I also downloaded an unofficial 2.2 version (2.1 beta
> from 1997 is official (why Beta ? :-( ). The author is
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Torsten Duwe) which had apparently difficulties
> in reaching the authors of the original rosegarden for
> his patches (he fixed many bugs and included some new
> features as well, did not check the program out though).
> I visited the homepage of rosegarden as well regarding
> the further development and the last change I saw in
> CVS was from Januar this year.
>
> The homepage tells that bugfix-releases should still
> be published, but as there was no update since over
> two years now, I suppose its really difficult to reach
> authors, so does anyone know whats happening to
> rosegarden ?
>
> Maybe there also is an alternative program, but I did
> not find one on the linux sound pages (www.linuxsound.at),
> which supports musixtex and/or pmx as well.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Reinhard Katzmann
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I�m using rosegarden for some time (maybe 2-3 years) and think your
description is perfectly true. Rosegarden is a very nice program for two
reasons:
1. It runs on Linux
2. There is no better one to be seen (running on Linux).
Some time ago the developpers of Rosegarden announced work on a new
version but there is not very much progress upon that project. So you can
decide: wait or write a better program yourself (that�s the question I put
to myself).
Werner
Werner Arnhold Fritz-Karsen-Schule
Feldspatweg 7 Onkel-Br�sig-Str. 76-78
D-12349 Berlin D-12359 Berlin
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