Re: [Denemo-devel] More script questions and requests

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 23:40 +0200, Nils Gey wrote:
> I don't know the american term, but lilypond is from euro-devs so its just
> 
> c\longa
> c\breve
> 
> or for rests:
> 
> r\longa
> r\breve
> 
> I would be pleased if this would not become a script but the same function as 
> all other note-durations so that they can be handeld the same way. 
Yes, that is what we would do if we could. But it may be quite
impossible because of the arithmetic - I'll have a look inside LilyPond
to find out how it is handling \longa and \breve, because IIRC LilyPond
has the same arithmetic scheme which (again IIRC) breaks down after
whole-note.
Richard

> 
> \maxima is also there, but this only works with ancient notation mode.
> 
> By the way... whats missing, too, are multi-measure rests. 
> 
> Nils
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:55:19 +0100
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 14:14 +0200, Nils Gey wrote:
> > > This seems to be fun :)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 1) Is there / Can you create a GetNoteLength
> > > 
> > > 2) Can you please create a Brevis (Double Whole-Note), too? 
> > I am not sure what may be involved here - do you know how LilyPond
> > handles breves (I am not sure what the American term is, that is the
> > English one)? Nor longs.
> > > 
> > > 3) How do I connect access the values in Preferences->Externals & Help? I 
> > > want to make Browser-call with the browser given for help.
> > It isn't implemented - there is a general method for querying values
> > using the d-xxx where xxx is the command-name, in this case the command
> > name is Preferences. So you would call (d-Preferences "query=...") but I
> > have only implemented a few of these - see the manual for the pattern of
> > them.
> > > 
> > > 4) Richard, you said in your mail:
> > > "Yes, I have done a little bit of that, you do (string-append "d-" 
> > > number) and then some tricky stuff to make it execute the command whose 
> > > name is that string."
> > > What is the tricky stuff?
> > See actions/denemo.scm under ApplyToSelection
> > it uses eval-string I think.
> > Richard
> > > 
> > > 5) Jeremiah, is there a working "Move Cursor to nearest note on vertical 
> > > position?" or better "Move Cursor to the lowest/highest note on current 
> > > position"
> > > 
> > > x) Scheme-Editor does not have scrollbars and no undo. This is "x" 
> > > because this is already known and already on the roadmap "Better 
> > > texteditor-windows, integrate Scintilla http://www.scintilla.org/ ?"
> > > 
> > > Nils
> > > 
> > > 
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