From: Shelagh M. <she...@gm...> - 2008-04-19 22:53:46
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On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:18:15 -0400 "D. Michael McIntyre" <mic...@ro...> wrote: > This still isn't solid enough to be a release candidate yet, but I > thought I'd roll out another tarball for further testing. > > The only known catastrophic problems so far (by bug number and > description) are: > > 1941800 Problem copying segment with Ctrl-Click and Drag > 1929865 undoing throws track heights out of whack > 1929862 refresh problem dragging overlapping segments > 1911968 (tuplet crash) Cannot fill last measure with triplets > > The tarball is available at: > > http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/pre/rosegarden-1.7.0-pre1.tar.bz2 > > No fake Ubuntu package this time, since that proved to be a complete > waste of my time. > Stop the press! Actually I did a compile the day before yesterday and had some consistent crashes when trying to preview in the ordinary rosegarden notation preview. The lilypond preview worked well. I haven't yet had a chance to follow this up. Do I need to recompile so as to add debugging symbols to give useful data? Shelagh. > > Here's a release note draft update: > > The Rosegarden project is proud to announce the [eventual] release of > 1.7.0! > > You can grab the source at [blah blah blah] > > Chris Cannam and D. Michael McIntyre have gotten back to their > notation roots for this release, spearheading a successful effort to > raise the bar to a whole new level. This is not to say that > Rosegarden is now targeting notation to the exclusion of everything > else, but we have made a strong effort to do some catching up in this > area of the application, which has been languishing for quite some > time. > > This release includes new contributions from established project > members Heikki Junes, Arnout Engelen, and Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas. > Translator Yves Guillemot has come over to the development side as > well. New members Philippe Macaire and Jaakko H. Kyro have joined > the development team, while Gunhild Andersen has joined us as a > documentation writer, pioneering our new Users Helping Users > section[1]. On top of all this, we have had code contributions from > Colin Fletcher, Alessandro Preziosi, Stefan Asserhall, "Flameeyes" > Pettenò, and Anders Dahnielson, a segment parameter presets database > update from Magnus Johansson, and new library contributions keep > rolling in! > > Progress has been slow but steady during this release cycle, with all > of this work dragging out for what has felt like years. In spite of > this pace, and the seeming lack of anything happening around here day > to day, we have managed to bring together more contributions from > more people than any previous release of Rosegarden. > > New Features in 1.7.0 > > I wanted to pull out the highlights and list the most significant > improvements first, but they are all significant improvements. > > * Track headers in Notation view (Yves, since rev 8355) > > * Test to see if a newer version is available, to help users stay > up to date when distros sometimes carry quite old versions (Chris, > since rev 8374) > > * New Welcome dialog that attempts to help you tweak your setup > for best results (Chris, since rev 8374) > > * Notation: The preferred stem direction in a chord around the > middle line is down, which better meshes with LilyPond (Heikki, since > rev 8381) > > * Notation: The preferred beam position in a beamed group around > the middle is below (Heikki, since rev 8383) > > * Add icons for Add tempo and Add time signature in NotationView-> > Composition menu (Heikki, since rev 8415) > > * New matrix background to make black keys stand out (Alessandro > Preziosi and Michael, since rev 8449) > > * Move to Staff Above or Staff Below to make sorting out > overlapping voice parts considerably easier (Chris, since rev 8545) > > * Radically reformed grace notes now work correctly for the first > time in Rosegarden's history, and are now easy to use (Chris, since > rev 8557) > > * Sync segments to track parameters (correct clef, transpose > notation, alter key signatures, highest/lowest playable notes) > available as option when using the load preset button in the Track > Parameters Box, which greatly simplifies the process of converting a > standard MIDI file into notation suitable for real musicians who play > transposing instruments (Arnout, since rev 8583) > > * "Convert notation for..." function added to notation editor to > provide another mechanism for using the sync segments functionality > (Arnout, since rev 8593) > > * Expanded/corrected instrument presets database (Magnus > Johannson, since rev 8597) > > * Export markers to LilyPond (Jaakko H. Kyro, since rev 8618) > > * Alternative shortcut for Play/Stop in laptop use: Ctrl+Return > (Heikki, since rev 8626) > > * New track parameters for exporting square, curly, and nested > brackets to LilyPond, making it possible to produce true piano > notation and complex orchestral scores properly for the first time, > without hand editing of the .ly code. (Replaces the now deprecated > "Export staff group bracket" option with this new and much more > flexible scheme.) (Michael, since rev 8637) > > * The transport mode setting is now stored with and restored from > individual compositions (Philippe, since rev 8646) > > * Export the new radically reformed grace notes into LilyPond > syntax (Heikki, since rev 8648) > > * Now ties can finally be flipped (Chris, since rev 8653) and the > flipped ties exported to LilyPond (Michael, since rev 8655) > > * Arbitrary dynamics exported to LilyPond as markups if they are > not on LilyPond's list of supported dynamic types (Michael, since rev > 8687) > > * Manually repositioned rests (as when rearranging badly rendered > overlapping voices) are now exported to LilyPond (Michael, > since rev 8694) > > * Set a quick playback position marker in the main window with > Ctrl+1 and recall it with 1 (Philippe, since rev 8705) (Sets working > visual marker in rev 8803) > > * New variable height tracks finally make working with overlapping > segments (eg. to contain concurrent voices for notation > purposes) an easy and reasonable process, instead of the nightmare it > has been for years (Chris, since rev 8740) > > * Smarter selections in matrix and notation views now allow you > to remove individual, previously-selected events without beginning > the entire selection process from scratch (Michael, since rev 8744 > (matrix) and 8748 (notation)) > > > Significant bug fixes since 1.6.0 > > * Serious overhaul of MIDI import to avoid scrambling karaoke and > similar files into complete chaos (Chris, since rev 8515) > > * Fix text codec dialog that appears when importing MIDI files > with lyrics (Chris, since rev 8536) > > * Splitting the segment now really splits the segment (Chris, > since rev 8538) > > * Track Parameters now displays the correct track (Chris, since > rev 8539) > > * No more mysterious zero-length segments on import (Chris, since > rev 8540) > > * Align lyrics with rests so they appear at the correct time, if > only lyrics and rests in a segment (Chris, since rev 8541) > > * Fix inability to build without JACK (Flameeyes' Pettenò, since > rev 8546) > > * Fix broken pitch chooser dialog to correct accidental display > and draggability (Arnout and Michael, various revisions since 8555) > > * Replace perpetually broken grace note functionality (Chris, > since rev 8557) > > * Fix crash when deleting a device that was in use (Chris, since > rev 8558) > > * First note after 8va or 15ma section no longer at wrong octave > (Chris, since rev 8559) > > * Correct display of flipped stems in certain situations (Chris, > rev 8560) > > * Repair very tricky ruler bug that prevented the composition > from being able to start anywhere other than bar 1 (Michael, since > rev 8573) > > * Take track transpose into account when recording, move notation > by the opposite amount, so the end result sounds correctly when > played back (Michael, since rev 8576) > > * It is now possible to tie notes that have shorter performance > durations than their display durations (Chris, since rev 8595) > > * Renamed spurious Halve/Double Speed functions to Double/Halve > Durations and assigned new keybindings (Heikki, since rev 8615) > > * Headers for the files in the Rosegarden library rewritten so > that all of them show up in everyone's file dialogs (Anders > Dahnielson and Michael, since rev 8666) > > * The notation view no longer assumes it is always necessary to > display a time signature, which eliminates a lot of extra time > signatures that used to have to be hidden by hand (Chris, since rev > 8679) > > * Above/below directions of phrasing slurs now exported to > LilyPond correctly (Michael, since rev 8680) > > * Hidden key signatures ignored during LilyPond export (Michael, > since rev 8693) > > * Corrected a problem whereby you could edit the second of two > markers at the same time position, and have the changes apply to the > first one at that position (Philippe, since rev 8706) > > * Build system tweaks and a fix for building with librdf in an > unusual location (Pedro, since rev 8829) > > Thanks to > > * Damien Goutte-Gattat > * Oliver Večernik > * Tony Amort > * Steffen Klein > * Haig Dedeyan > * Luis Filipe Lobo > * Marko Mueller > * "Piglet" > * "b.ohnsorg" > > 1. http://rosegarden.wiki.sourceforge.net/Users+Helping+Users > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jabber: she...@gm... ---------------------------------------------------------------- |