[linux-audio-user] NoteEdit 2.3.4

Chris Cannam cannam at all-day-breakfast.com
Mon Dec 22 14:33:09 EST 2003


On Monday 22 Dec 2003 5:27 pm, Joerg Anders wrote:
> 	  NoteEdit is now able to import MusicXML files produced
> 	  by Rosegarden. Unfortunately, Rosegarden forgets the
> 	  "sharp" and "flat" statements :-(

This is the second time recently that you've announced a perceived 
defect in Rosegarden as part of your release note without bothering 
to contact Rosegarden's developers about it.

I think that's rather ungentlemanly.  I don't recall ever having been 
uncivil toward you or your software and I would consider it a shame 
if a Rosegarden developer set aside space in a Rosegarden release 
note to criticise any other free software program, especially if they 
hadn't notified its developers first.

For what it's worth, your note is also misleading because it implies 
that Rosegarden's MusicXML files don't contain any information that 
can be used to deduce accidentals for display.  They do contain the 
basic <alter> elements for shifted pitch; they just don't contain 
accidentals where (for example) a user has requested that one be 
shown explicitly even though it's also in the key.  While this is not 
the complete showstopper you seem to suggest, it is certainly a 
limitation, and it's one I hadn't realised was there so a bug report 
would have been very welcome.


Chris




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