I don't think you ever got a reply to this email :( rectified below... On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 16:40 +0100, Joe Wilkinson wrote: > Hi Richard, > > (There is no hurry - I am going away for a week tomorrow!) > > I have a lot of files with 5 staffs, to provide music for a young > sax > player. > > Structure: > > 1 Chord Staff > > 2 Original music (with lyrics) > > 3 (Hidden) Staff with copy/pasted notes from Staff 2, edited to > cope > with music below Eb > > 4 Borrowed music from Staff 3 > > 5 Borrowed music from Staff 3 Chord staff - gives note names > below > Staff 4. > > I'd like to add 2 more for a Bb Clarinet > > 6 Borrowed music from 2 (there is not much church music going > below > Bb so don't need to edit) > > 7 Borrowed music from 2 but Chord Staff to give note names. > > I can obviously do it file by file; I just thought it might be > possible > speed up the process,
This sounds like a candidate for the Record feature in the Scheme window: you do it once with Record on and then turn off record and use the script to apply to all your files. > i.e. to merge the first with a second file with 3 > staffs (one a dummy), already transposed and with chord names in a > smaller font, then update the references to the correct staff (and > delete the dummy). > > Add a movement works, but Merge Movement is only interested in > copying > the notes and other stuff from the second staff into the first, > matching > the first staff in each, then the second. > I thought Merge might have added the staffs on to the end. Have I > missed > something or would this be impossible? Perhaps you've missed Command: Add Staffs Add staffs from a Denemo file Location: Main Menu ▶ File ▶ Open Internal Name: AddStaffs Perhaps this command should really be in the Staffs menu ... Richard