Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Re: Notation capabilities

[Kevin D. <ke...@do...>]

On Saturday 08 October 2005 09:50, Peter Mogensen wrote:
> All this would not be like WYSIWYG editors, but it would be pretty
> powerful without compromising the sequencer, ... and it would export
> nicely to Lilypond.

I am not a specialist, but those suggestions seem to strike a pretty good 
balance between not messing the current RG up too much, and yet at the same 
time producing some additional basic functionality that really is needed in 
anything but the most basic piece of music.  Having to copy whole chunks in 
the notation editor is, according to my son, tiresome and prone to error.

On Saturday 08 October 2005 10:55, Chris Cannam wrote:
> Now the problem I have with all this, is that DC/DS is already a
> somewhat ambiguous, limited notation that's a bit of a nasty hack to
> start with.  I don't think putting a big load of logic into the
> sequencer to reproduce the very particular structure of these
> arrangements is going to get anyone very far.

Indeed - I suspect it was developed to avoid the very point above, and to save 
paper and engravers' time.  Nevertheless, for all its vagaries, it is what 
people use.

> To be honest, for these I would almost prefer just to support the
> notation but not to play it.  At some time in the future, one could in
> theory play things like that using some sort of loop/flow track which
> suggests where to hop from A to B and when (as Silvan mentioned the
> other day), or I suppose one could have an option to follow notation
> flow without showing it in the sequencer if desired.

Obviously you (Chris) and the other devs know the RG minutiae best, but having 
something relatively soon that at least approximates to what music 
teachers/players expect to read may be better than developing a more powerful 
flow system at some later stage.  I also wonder whether such a flow system 
might not in any case appeal more to those using the sequencer side, rather 
than the notators - I know that, as Peter has said, they could use Lilypond 
directly, but RG is such a wonderful "interface" to this that it would be a 
pity if incremental additions couldn't be made here too.

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Kevin Donnelly

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