On Saturday 24 November 2007, Heikki Johannes Junes wrote: > It would be wonderful, if the note styles list "Classical, Cross, Mensural, > Triangle" could include also "Rest". > That would be similar to what LilyPond uses: "a4\rest", and solve the > problem from the notation side. > Anyway the problem seems to be notation specific.
Interesting. I wonder how hard it would be to get notes drawn with no stems, flags, beams, etc. We'd also probably want an easier mechanism for entering them than switching note head styles, but I guess we could put that off until later, and just get it working the easiest way first. > As a side effect one would also want that if the note style would be "Rest" > (i) no audible midi event would be created in playback > (ii) the "rest-note" would be treated in some reasonable way in (a) matrix > view, in (b) the preview of segment view and in (c) rulers. I think I'll sit down and play with this, though I don't promise to get anything working. My thought is to begin by copying an existing style, bent to a new purpose and work on the problem from there. If we can get a duplicated mensural note set that happens to come out in LilyPond with a \rest tacked after it, that's a beginning. This does seem like the right solution to me. Even if we had a permanent rest, as I seem to remember suggesting for this or some other problem, there would still be no way to reposition it. If we made it possible to drag rests around, then there would still be no way to export that positioning tweaking. We've said before that LilyPond has micro-positioning too, but unless I've missed something, it seems it would be far less than simple to figure out a way to convert coordinates in our context to coordinates in their context, and so it seems to me that our micro-positioning must remain basically a convenience feature, or something to improve draft printing (unless we dispose of draft printing.) Anyway, unless I run into some other problem, it looks like this rest business might be the only remaining piece of giving us reasonably usable support for multiple voice stuff, if we just acknowledge that chords are impossible to solve, and all the notes in a chord will have to be in the same segment, no matter how counterintuitive that sometimes can be. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
