Re: [Denemo-devel] some typesetting observations

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 10:56 -0500, Ellen Schwindt wrote:
> Hello Richard and other denemo friends,
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> Denemo keeps getting better and better--kudos to you!
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> I noticed some things:
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> When you have accompanists score selected so that a solo line appears
> as a tiny score in the typesetter, you can't tell the difference
> between cues and not-cues. Is there some way to do this? Or to say HOW
> tiny a tiny score is?
> Measure 12 in the attached pdf illustrates this.

I think there is a problem that the cues are picking up their size from
where they are cued from. There would be a fix for that, but I would
guess (from my own experience) that what you *really* want is to not
have cues in the accompanist's score. So

      * Select the Accompanist's score in the Score Layout View (if you
        have just typeset it then you it will be selected already)
      * on each cue start and end choose Directives->Make Conditional
      * Choose "Ignore for current Layout"
        
Of course, if you have a lot of them, the the Ctrl-E,Ctrl-E thing for
searching them out could be good.

> And about ties:
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> I notice that when you have multiple voices for polyphony to make the
> stems of notes go up and down, the ties between notes go in unusual
> directions--that is they go up when I think it would be more ordinary
> to see them go down. Can you change tie direction?
> Measure 6 in the attached pdf illustrates this.

It looks like you have Voice 2 or 4 set on that staff - was that an
accident? You can set/unset it as a staff property (for initial voice to
start in) with Staffs/Voices->Voices->Choose Initial Voice, and then the
voice can be altered during the music, but you won't have done that by
accident.

BTW you have dotted whole note rests in some bars where you mean whole
bar rests.

Richard