[Denemo-devel] Re: Tablature

[Ken Restivo]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 07:53:24AM +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> Yes, mostly what you described should have worked, or at least roughly
> what you described should have.
> Just putting the file there isn't enough, I am already anticipating
> thousands of such files so menus would get impossible if everything was
> automatically picked up. I suspect it might be various file name
> glitches (/usr/local vs /usr, the name of the file mis-matching the
> command name, typos ...)
> 
> So having installed the file in the right menu folder, you would have to
> do More commands from a right click inside the menu you wanted more
> commands for (quirks still in there too I'm afraid, IIRC, it has to be a
> scripted command).
> But picking it up using the More commands from the Main Menu should have
> worked - you would then need to save your command set which you should
> get offered to do.
> Anyway, as it is in git, you can now do the Update Commands from the
> Internet, which should get you the new command.
> And another route for any piece of scheme that you have - right click in
> the menu where you want to put it, then choose Save Script as New Menu
> Item and that will take you through creating a new command for your
> script. You would use this for the \<string number> commands you may
> need to go with the basic tab generation command, to customize the
> string selection.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 22:17 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote:
> > 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
> Denemo doesn't know that - one command or a whole set, its the same to
> this dumb program :)
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >  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.
> > 


OK One more question on string number. Now that I have tab, I'm trying to get 
the strings sorted out

I tried going to Notes/Directives, Attach LilyPond to note, "Give text to place 
before note", and I put in \4, then it asked me three other irrelevant 
questions. Then it didn't show the note on the GUI so I have no idea what I 
typed in. But it did in fact move the note to string 4, and printed correctly. 
So, it works! But it's really cumbersome. Is there a faster/easier way to add 
string numbers in for notes, and to show them while editing?

-ken