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Subject: Re: [Rosegarden-devel] semi-working tablature for anyone who's 
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Date: Wednesday 25 July 2007 16:30
From: Chris Cannam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Alessandro Preziosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "M. Donalies" 
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On Tuesday 24 July 2007 19:50, Alessandro Preziosi wrote:
> according to me the best way is extending the
> current notation-editor. I know there is not much difference, but somebody
> may want for ex. to see in both tab and notes in the same view or print
> them... This is my idea.

That is what Michelle originally tried to propose here, a while ago -- I
 think the present tablature editor is being suggested as a simpler and less
 controversial alternative (the previous discussion having run aground on the
 details rather).

> First of all (even without thinking about the tab) i think the
> notation-editor should contain a menu (ex. view->segments) that opens a
> dialog from which you choose which segments to show.

There is some related discussion, with diagrams, archived on the wiki -- see
http://rosegarden.wiki.sourceforge.net, Development -> "Score editing, not
just notation editing" -- at least I think that's where it is, I'm working
offline at the moment.

The principle was that rather than showing a raw set of segments, a notation
view would be a view of a "score", where a score is a set of tracks that have
a particular relationship to one another defined in staff terms.  There could
be any number of scores associated with a given composition -- for example,
an instrumental part might have a particular track at the top in a larger
typeface, with some other tracks below it in a smaller face; while a part for
a different instrument might reverse the order.  These scores would be
relevant for printing (for example through Lilypond) as well -- you could ask
to print the part "scores" for instruments A, B, and C, all from the same
composition.  A "guitar score" view of a composition might show the same
track twice, once in classical notation and once in tablature (or whatever
you like -- I'm not a guitarist).  A multi-part vocal staff might appear
within a score by means of having several tracks mapped onto the same staff.
You would presumably create and edit a score using a dialog a bit like a
fancier version of the example you just gave.

Presumably, if you just selected a set of segments and opened them in a
notation view, in the way you do now, you'd get a sort of automatically
created score with just those segments in it in identical staffs... I don't
know.

Anyway, it's all pie in the sky -- the wiki page is new and open to further
annotation, but the original content is getting old and nothing has happened
in implementation terms yet.  It's just food (mmm, pie) for thought at the
moment.


Chris

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