[linux-audio-user] NoteEdit questions (multiple staves)

[Joerg Anders]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:

> As far as I know, no NoteEdit mailing list exists. So I have to ask
> here...

I have not the time to maintain such a list.  Currently I'm alone
and either I maintain a maling list or I program and maintain the
documentation. But you can contact me directly 
(ja at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de). NoteEdit causes only some
minimal problems. And most of them have to do with the current
hardware or the current Linux distribution of this concrete
user, nothing for a list. Thus, till now I could answer the few questions directly.

BTW: Some people contacted me. They want to establish such a list. My
answer is: "Of course! And I would mention this list at NoteEdit
home page. But do not expect to much contribution from me! It is your
list, not my list!"

> 
> First,  to create two staves that are for the same instrument? 

No, the braces are not supported. At the beginning I redarded NoteEdit
rather as a musics instrument than a notation software. And at the beginning
NoteEdit produced only a MusiXTeX skeleton. To convert this into a valid 
MusiXTeX input was a task to the user. But e-mails from many users drove
me to improve the output and to support more and more music typesetters
(PMX, ABC, LilyPond). So what you see is a snapshoot along the long road
of the NoteEdit developement, which offers a lot, but not the score layout.

The current state is: You can learn ABC, MusiXTeX, LilyPond, MUP and/or PMX
and insert the braces "by hand".

Read also:

 http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/doc/lily_omit_score.html

Sometimes I plan a score layout menu. That does not mean NoteEdit shows
the braces. But the users can determine which score layout is produced
in ABC, MusiXTeX, LilyPond, MUP and/or PMX.

> 
> Second, is it possible (and if yes, how) to enable some sort of line
> wrapping, as common in printed scores? Working with one long line is
> somewhat inconvenient.
>   

No, currently not. And it will be a long way before I'll introduce
this. It has to do with my own interests. As you can see from my
examples, I want to write score with at least 6 staves. Thus,
line breaking is completely useless. But again: The typsetters
(ABC, MusiXTeX, LilyPond, MUP and/or PMX) of course break the
lines automatically.

BTW: I never wanted to write a score editor. I waited for
Rosegarden-2.x which was announced at rosegarden home page for
8 (!!!) years. Or I waited for a Linux port of the Note Worthy
Composer (http://www.noteworthysoftware.com) which I regarded
as perfect. And it didn't matter to me that it presents the whole
score in one line. I want to give non-musicians a feeling of the
relationship between the score and the music. And the running
red notes do this job very well. I even wrote to the Note Worthy
developers and asked for a Linux port. I would also pay a fee
like for the Windows version. The answer was : "No, never!".

-- 
J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (ja at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)