lasconic wrote > Chordnames and Figured bass styles are already hidden in Style -> Text > Style. > I don't see why they should be selectable in the Text Tool bar (the bottom > bar when your enter a text), or why this bar should be displayed at all > for these 2 types. > Same for right click -> text properties. > > In the end, I wonder if we really need style at all for these two elements > since they are not really Text after all. The Text is just used as a proxy > in the normal case. > Maurizio, any opinion on this? I can see that you kept the figured bass > text style.
Sorry for the delay: bad week, dead lines, ... Usually, a normal, well-formed fig. bass element does not need anything from either Text or SimpleText: its formatting is totally self-contained and depends upon the parameters set in "Styles | General | Figured Bass". I kept the fig. bass text style and, even more, I kept the whole FiguredBass element as derived from the full Text class for a few reasons, some instrumental and one cautionary: 1) While editing a fig. bass entry, it is easier to re-use the already implemented (Simple)Text editing functions rather then re-implement them; to do this, some text style has to be applied to the text, possibly a text style similar enough to the current Fig. Bass parameters: this is what the fig. bass text style is used for. In fact, when the "Styles | General | Figured Bass" are edited, the fig. bass text style is updated to be as similar as possible to them. 2) If an entry is not well-formed (I believe to have covered all the reasonable cases, but I cannot rule out that some sources exist which use non-standard syntax), the internal formatting is bypassed and the SimpleText mechanism is used instead. Again, a text style is needed for that and the fig. bass text style is used. 3) Lastly, it is conceivable that occasionally a fig. bass entry may be needed which needs special style(s), for emphasis or for didactic purpose (or for whatever else: user ingenuity has no limit!). So, I wanted to leave the user free to assign to a fig. bass entry a different style or even to have it unstyled with full text markup. It is for this reason that the "Text Properties" item appears in the contextual menu; this also requires the "Figured Bass" text style to appear in the drop lists to be able to re-assign the default style to a changed entry. All the above can be discussed, of course, but I think the above decisions to be reasonable. Thanks, Maurizio -- View this message in context: http://dev-list.musescore.org/Issues-using-SimpleText-for-Harmony-editing-tp7578018p7578022.html Sent from the MuseScore Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Mscore-developer mailing list Mscore-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer
