I was thinking so much about the attachment that I forgot to say thank you. And that "Tie Notes at Bar Lines" was what I was looking for, but I'm glad to know that it might not work, lol.
If I might ask, because I've been wondering about this, what makes doing notation so difficult? I know, of course, that there are many rules to notation regardless of how you do it, but it's so mathematical that I just kind of assumed that this would be one of the most trivial parts. Boy, was I wrong, lol. So yeah, what makes it so hard? On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:18 PM, D. Michael McIntyre <rosegarden.trumpe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/07/2016 07:19 AM, Silas Mortimer wrote: > >> Anyway, here's one example: >> >> >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8p6zThp4KIdN2NyUXBRWHkxUHc/view?usp=sharing > > > Red bar lines are Rosegarden's way of telling you that something is wrong. > The measure does not count correctly, and this typically happens because it > is too full. > > The automagic tool that's supposed to fix this kind of thing is Adjust -> > Notes... -> Tie Notes at Bar Lines. > > I constructed a test example, and of course it isn't working at all! I'm not > sure if that's a bug or my rusty understanding. > > So the next easiest way to go at this is to select the whole note and use > Ctrl+2 to convert it into a half note. Add another half note, select the > pair, and tie them manually. (You can also use Ctrl+Alt+2 to convert the > whole note into a single half note with a performance duration of a whole > note. The note will sound for two full measures of 2/4 but it will only be > written as one half note. It may not be a good idea to have such an extreme > difference between notation duration and performance duration, but it's an > option.) > > If in doubt, erasing a bit of stuff and drawing that bit over again will get > you around a lot of glitches. Some glitches are your fault, some glitches > are our fault. Every time I get frustrated and think Rosegarden is a > hopeless piece of crap, I go play with Sibelius or Finale. Commercial > software with years on us and presumably millions of dollars invested in > development is only marginally better, and Rosegarden was built by rank > amateurs. > >> Here's one more: >> >> >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8p6zThp4KIdSmZOdUx3eWR4YVU/view?usp=sharing > > > When notes are circled like that, you can interpret that to mean "there is > something awfully weird here. To do anything to resolve this one, I need > the file you're working on. (Send it directly to me if you're shy.) Then I > can look at what's what and sort it out. I'll walk you through how I did > what. > > -- > D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
