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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
