[Denemo-devel] Re: Tablature

[Ken Restivo]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:12:05PM +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> Printing tablature is very easy from Denemo:
> 
> http://denemo.org/index.php/Tablature
> 
> I have put a command to go in the Staff menu on that page. This is
> highly minimal - to modify the string that a note should appear on you
> would need a command like the string number one but issuing \<number>
> instead of -<number>, again trivial. No savannah else I would push this
> to git.


Thanks! Manually running the script from the Scheme window works, thanks, I 
have tab now!

But, trying to add the command does not work.

I put the TabStaff file from the wiki into 
/usr/share/denemo/actions/menus/ObjectMenu/StaffMenu/TabStaff, but it's not 
showing up in the Staff menu, even after saving commands and restarting.

I notice that the code on the wiki says "<after>TinyStaff</after>" but there is 
no TinyStaff on my Denemo (git version from 2010-11-22).  There is a 
SmallerStaff, though. Changing TinyStaff to SmallerStaff in the TabStaff file 
still doesn't make it show up though.

So I tried loading the command file from the menu in the GUI, and it complained 
that it "Could not load command set file", which I thought odd because it 
wasn't a command set file, just a command.

So I tried manuallly patching Default.commands as in the git patch. That made 
the TabStaff command shows up, in the menu, but, when i choose it, it complains 
"Unable to load the script". That's odd too. Why is it unable to load it? It's 
right there in /usr/share/denemo/actions/menus/ObjectMenu/StaffMenu/TabStaff

Anyway, so it kind of works, just requires me cut/pasting scheme into the 
window. Looks like it saves the pasted code into the .denemo score file itself, 
which is interesting. But it'd be nice if the menu worked.

-ken