Re: [Rosegarden-devel] notation features summary...

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

On Saturday 08 May 2004 04:18, Silvan wrote:
> There may well be things I haven't discovered yet, since my focus has been
> elsewhere lately.  I thought it might be useful for you to give me a
> summary of things the notation editor is expected to be able to do, so I
> can be sure to hit on all the key features. 

Jeepers, that's a tall order.  Well, you could start by taking a look at the 
Help handbook for the notation editor -- it's not complete, but it is more 
complete for notation than for anything else.  And your job is probably 
helped by the fact that notation has changed less, functionally speaking, 
than most other bits of the program since you last used it.

Things you should be able to do:

- open multiple staffs
- enter notes with accidentals, rests, and clefs using the toolbar and mouse
- enter notes by pressing keys on the keyboard (see Insert Note submenu of 
tools menu)
- enter notes by step recording from a midi device
- erase events using the eraser
- enter text and edit existing bits of text, using the text tool
- add clef, key, tempo, time signature
- select things and filter the selection (selecting something changes the 
current staff to it too)
- move a selection around by dragging (and you can now drag from one staff to 
another, though that's a wee bit buggy)
- transpose up and down semitone/octave with keyboard shortcuts
- change stem directions with keyboard shortcut
- jog left and right by small time increments, with keyboard shortcuts 
(doesn't produce very nice notation)
- make and break beamed groups
- make grace notes (very buggy at the moment)
- make arbitrary tuplets
- add slurs and dynamic hairpins
- double-click on clef, key, text, and time signature events to edit them 
using their proper editors (double-clicking on other things just opens the 
advanced event edit dialog -- I'd like to make that a bit nicer)
- control the transport, and set loops using the ruler at the bottom of the 
window
- quantize, inc. various notation quantization options
- "interpret" -- apply dynamics, mangle note durations etc
- make a sequence of notes into a chord
- add and edit lyrics
- force particular accidentals, and add cautionary accidentals
- change note style (does anyone ever use this feature?)
- add slashes to stems
- add various marks on marks menu
- change the notation font (if you have other fonts on your system -- e.g. 
from the free Finale font pack -- though why you'd want the Finale fonts in 
preference to Feta I don't quite know)
- change size, spacing, and the stretch factor used for accommodating note 
durations
- use linear, continuous page, multiple page layout (with paper and desk 
backdrops, optionally)
- get estimated chord names in the chord name ruler
- get raw/notated note durations in the raw note ruler
- print (better than before)
- export to lilypond

Ach, who knows.


Chris