On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:51:23PM -0500, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > > Since you've already made the change (thanks for the patch) I guess > > you've tested that it performs as expected?
Yes I have, as you confirmed below. :) > Answering my own question, *I* have now, and it seems to be working. > I ran some tests using the Handel piece with orchestra and SATB, which > was my benchmark for ensuring that the staff grouping bits were > functioning correctly. > > There were no silences long enough to trigger staffs disappearing, so > I deleted a huge chunk of time from the STRINGS, and saw those parts > go away for pages and pages; rightly so. > > Serves them right after all the times we trumpets had to count 87 bars > of rest before coming in for six bars, and then 198 bars of rest for > another six bars, then 415 bars before coming in for the last two > bars. Haha, I should rewrite my piece to have the trumpets play the whole way through with strings accompanying, instead of the current orchestration in which the trumpets just play a few rhythms and half of a melody (not even the whole phrase!!), and the strings just ... string the thing along. :P (At least the brass players have interesting things to do... I think the bassoon has a grand total of 2 bars in the entire piece right now. I intend to re-orchestrate the piece sometime, as I've apparently been blockheaded enough to write notes for the contrabass that are below their range -- those notes will have to be played by the bassoon instead.) (Oh, and lest you think the bassoon has it bad... the oboes play a beautiful melody of silence the whole way through. Haha... yeah, my orchestration needs work. Lots of work.) > Damn string players, thinking they're the backbone of the orchestra, > and everybody else is just "tone color." :P > > (Graham Percival of LilyPond, I'm looking at YOU, O_o ) [...] Speaking of which, does lilypond support automatically indicating which instruments are on which staves when empty staves are omitted? I mean, it's all great and everything that with \RemoveEmptyStaves in place, now my score is 9 pages instead of 24, but then some parts have no indication whatsoever as to which instruments are actually playing, just two or three non-descript treble/bass clefs. I think in professional scores there's some marking of which instruments correspond with which staves -- I *could* add these by hand, but they'd be thrown off every time I reformat the score, so it'd be nice if there was an automatic way to do this. T -- Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue. -- Yoon Ha Lee, CONLANG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master SQL Server Development, Administration, T-SQL, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS and more. Get SQL Server skills now (including 2012) with LearnDevNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only - learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122512 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
