Hi Richard, sorry for the old version. I now installed Denemo 1.1.0 from the website. It can't use lilypond with it for some reason (it crashes when I want to print) but I can look around and compare.
Many things have improved a lot: The sound plays nicely, the buttons show no artefacts, the menus are readable. I like the feature that one can click on the key signature to increase the sharps or flats. The look is still similar to Windows 95. On the website I saw something gnome-like but not in my installed version. Is that available? For my taste, there are too much buttons with a similar meaning. E.g. all the slur and bracket buttons could be simplified as Frescobaldi does: the slur spans the selected range of notes. Also, the buttons to insert a note and change the current note to a different duration duplicate things. Wouldn't it make sense to merge them (two different modes or a shift+click for changing). It would also be convenient to move the current note up or down with the up/down key (it moves only the cursor). I am still confused by the cursors, one | marking the point in time and a square marking the current note/pitch. It is sometimes green, sometimes blue. It is not clear to me how a new measure is started. At the beginning it worked (like in LP) automatically but later I had measures with more than 4 beats (coloured in read) and the automatic bar line was missing. The menus are very full which is probably a result of putting everything in that is possible (which is good to have). But an intelligent reduction would be needed (imho). E.g. for slurs you have to search a while: Notes/Rests > Markings > Slurs > Begin slur The menues are difficult to browser, because the tooltip/hint is often very large and covers the menu. What is the reason for not chosing LP shortcuts for input: (=start slur, )=end it, 8=eigth note, r=rest etc. It would train people a bit to this well designed representation. , works to go down one octave, but ' does not go up. The dot button and the accidental buttons as well as key signatures and clefs work nicely. I am still not convinced but it is definitely in a better state and there were many improvements. Cheers, Joram _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
