On Friday 12 Mar 2004 6:49 pm, Chris Metzler wrote: > Is there any chance that some of that typesetting capability -- in > particular, the ability to print clean, organized sheet music for > distribution to others and performance use, with the ability to > adjust measures per line and mark repeats and alternate end bars > and so on -- will find its way into Rosegarden's notation editor > and printing facility? Yes, there certainly is -- with caveats. My own original area of interest in Rosegarden (as the longest-running developer on the project) is in notation, and I'm very keen to continue developing that. But Rosegarden is intended to be a compositional tool rather than, say, a score typesetter, and that shows: it's unlikely that you'll ever get a printed score from it that matches what you could do with Lilypond or Sibelius (except of course if you export to Lilypond from Rosegarden). There are several practical reasons for that, other than simply that we have so many other things to work on as well. One reason is that we always put more work into making things look good and work well when edited interactively at screen resolutions before we consider how they might be adjusted for printing. Another important reason is that we're inclined to favour features that can be made common between the notation editor and the rest of the program, so that for example repeats and alternate endings in notation become harder to implement because they ideally ought to be represented in the sequencer-style segment canvas as well. Still, Rosegarden is unlikely to reach 1.0 without having a few more essential notation features like repeats, alternate endings, Joerg's favourite 8va sections, grand staffs, and the ability to do fine adjustments on the positions of individual elements. Quicker printing and better integrated Lilypond invocation are also priorities. Chris
