Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Collapse deleted rests automatically?

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

Ron Kuris wrote:

> what if I want to turn this into a 1/2 rest and a 1/8 rest?


You certainly have a point there.  I think for this general case
we could do with a menu function for it: you drag out a selection,
and then choose "Transforms | Merge Rests" if you want the most
aggressive legal merge, or "Transforms | Normalize Rests" if you
want Rosegarden to make the set of rests it thinks looks best.
The selection wouldn't have to contain only rests; the function
would act on every distinct group of rests within the selection.

(Not sure about "Transforms" as a name, but I've written it
provisionally into notation.rc anyway.)

I definitely favour making the editing actions work reasonably
predictably and then putting clever stuff into menus, except
where the clever stuff is really obviously worthwhile.

>>That would leave the bar an incomplete length, and could make it
>>difficult to fill it out with correct notes again.
> I don't understand why it would be difficult to fill with the correct notes
> again.


Well, we have a general problem at the moment that if a bar ends
up the wrong length for some reason it can be difficult (if not
impossible) to make it the right length again.  We need to give
that some thought anyway, I suspect.


Chris