comments inline: On 6/14/13 3:19 AM, John Jenkins wrote: > Laudetur Jesus Christus + > > Aaron - this feature I will be adding this weekend, after I return from > Warsaw. It shouldn't be too difficult to implement. I was thinking of > providing a simple keybind C-c t which would take an argument either positive > or negative to move the score up or down the scale. That sounds perfect > > Transposing is not so difficult actually in gregorio, just simply mapping the > note letters and doing a regexp-replace. > > Would you want the clef to move as well during this transpose? It would seem > for just transposing the notes higher or lower the clef should stay where it > is. For the issues I'm thinking about, just shifting the notes and not moving the clef would be ideal.
> What you might think would be the best practice for when the user wants to > transpose to a note not supported by gregorio, for instance below 'a' or > above 'm'. I was thinking of two possibilities: > > 1/ ignore the keypress altogether, so that nothing happens > 2/ replace the notes that go above or below to '%' so that syntax coloring > will show the error automatically. > 3/ alert the user by some sort of message. For this I'd prefer option #2, but maybe generate a beep and/or minibuffer alert as well, to alert the user something's not quite right. Particularly on a long document you might not see the red > > In my opinion the 2nd option (automatic commenting out notes that are out of > range) as the most useful. However you might have a better idea. A message > could be added in the minibuffer as an alert. > > I would also think that the transpose-function shouldn't change the region > marks, to allow for multiple presses of the transpose key and also allow > undo-region. > > Of course you could bind the functions to other keypresses, for instance C-c > u for up the scale, C-c d for down, but the most emacs way of doing this is > to prefix the function with an argument (M 3 C-c t would be a third up for > instance). > > Btw, the fact that gregorio-mode is based on TeX-mode, you can do > comment-region just as in LaTeX documents to comment out a bunch of code. > (C-c ;) Very useful! > > JJ + > >> Thanks for the great work! If I might suggest a feature, one thing that >> I've always wanted from an editor is a "transpose" feature. Like an >> emacs "comment-region", I'd like to be able to select a chunk of gabc >> text and shift the music up or down en masse >> >> A > > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users > -- _______________________________________________________ Aaron Macks([email protected]) [http://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm ] My sheep has seven gall bladders, that makes me the King of the Universe! _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
