On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 15:53 -0500, Carl Peterson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Richard Shann > <rich...@rshann.plus.com> wrote: > > > only some people are interested in "everything", many want > just their > own bits of interest. > Denemo is customizable to a great extent, all menus and > palettes can be > modified; most users will not do so, but it would be possible > to create > specialized versions of Denemo for many different areas of > interest. > > Richard > > > Agreed. But consider this. One of the things that the Adobe Creative > Suite programs have is customizable workspaces. They have a number of > workflow-specific workspaces (for print production or typography, > etc.), but then they also have workspaces that emulate other Creative > Suite programs so that you can work in one program similarly to > another. For instance, when I use Adobe Illustrator, I can use the > "Like Photoshop" workspace if I'm familiar with that program, or "Like > InDesign" if I'm familiar with it. The workspaces aren't 100% > identical, since each has its own set of tools, but it makes it easier > to use. The workspace customization includes menu options, toolbars > and palettes (and perhaps a couple of other things I can't think of > offhand). > > > Similarly, you could offer the user a "Like Finale" or "Like Sibelius" > or "Like MuseScore" environment. While not identical, a similar logic > to how those palettes/toolbars are constructed could be applied to > ease the learning curve. This would not require specialized > "versions," per se, so much as preconfigured preferences, perhaps?
I introduced a "profiles" feature a while back but it is currently disabled because it requires people familiar with each environment to actively update each profile as the program develops; the one of particular interest to the LilyPond users on this list is one that means that the typing of note-names and durations mimics \relative mode in a LilyPond editor (with the advantage that you immediately see if you have gone into the wrong octave, whereon you press , or ' to correct). The palettes (which are new to Denemo) are entirely customizable by the user - position, order of elements, aspect ratio, icon, tooltip and even the command it runs can tweaked by the user to have a different behavior. So providing "look-alike" palettes would be entirely possible. Having said that, I imagine a vast amount of stuff in those programs is just not needed when using Denemo/LilyPond because the typesetting is done for you. If you *do* need to tweak the typesetting then I think the departure from familiarity is inevitable at present (is Schicker's List heading in the direction of visually manipulating LilyPond's grobs?). Richard _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
