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bug #56539: feature request: Form for objects / attributes, not click-through boxes

Submitter:  dirck nagy <dircknagy>
Submitted:  Sat 22 Jun 2019 03:29:45 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Postponed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sat 22 Jun 2019 04:00:41 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Yes that is rather an old interface and should perhaps be marked hidden so that it doesn't appear in the menus. It is primitive because it is just a script that has very limited access to the graphical user interface.
Later I developed a more sophisticated interface, written in C.
You will find this in the command Multi-line Text and Music, which as the name implies allows you to do much more. It is fine to use that interface for just a simple text annotation - no obligation to make more than one line or to include musical glyphs etc.
This is for the more serious user, however. It exposes the LilyPond syntax for making the annotation, which is scary for some users. For example if you write

pizz.

and then select it and make it italic it becomes

\italic {pizz.}

which is the syntax needed. The advantage is that once you have done this once or twice you will remember the syntax and can just type it in, which is much quicker. The pane above shows you when you have the syntax right and what it will look like on the page.

Many years ago there was a proposal to make a more complete interface to the GUI available from Scheme, but no-one has taken up the challenge so I think it is only realistic to mark this as "postponed" and close the bug :(

Richard Shann <rshann>
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Sat 22 Jun 2019 03:29:45 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi Richard and Denemo crew!

Suggestion for object selection and editing:

When an object is chosen or edited, could there be a SINGLE box with ALL the attributes? 

For example:  Directives>MArkings> Text/Symbol> Textual Annotation > allows me to add text.  Then, there are a series of boxes for individual attributes which all must be clicked through.

So, if a person were to decide to edit text they have already placed in the score, say, change from "Bold" to "Light" they would have to click through all these boxes.

>edit
>Text Annotation
>Up,/down/auto
>Bold/light
>italic/normal


As you can imagine, this could be very time-consuming.

Likewise, the Score>Titles>Set Titles could insted display a form with each of these titles on it, to be filled (or left blank) and saved at one go.

It seems to me that many of the menu commands could be simplified this way...?

Thanks!
dirck

dirck nagy <dircknagy>

 

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