On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 04:22:14PM -0500, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On 01/08/2013 04:03 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > > > I can think of two approaches off the top of my head. > > 3) Take the first four characters and add a period at the end. > > Clarinet in Bb > Fluegelhorn in Bb > Necromancing Leprochauns Leaping Luridly in F > Flute in C > Timpani in F > Tenore in C > Turbulent Titmice Tumbling Tenaciously in C# > > Clar. > Flue. > Necr. > Flut. > Timp. > Teno. > Turb. > > That could work. > > Options: > > 1) Save space by omitting the period > 2) Combine approaches 1 and 3 by offering an export option > > Export short instrument names using [ 4 ] characters > > It's not quite as satisfying as being able to specify the abbreviation > manually, but it would get the job done, wouldn't it? Having the > control to specify n characters takes the responsibility away from > Rosegarden for making this call, because if we hard code for 1 or 3 or > 5 characters, SOMEONE will whine that it was the wrong choice.
Hmm. It seems like adding a whole bunch of options when simply adopting (2) will address the problem at its root. Plus, (2) doesn't suffer from this: > "Gee willakers Mr. Rosegarden Developer Guy, that sofware sure is > neat-o keen and snazzy, but you are obviously an imbecile, and I'm > going back to Windows THIS INSTANT unless the short instrument names > add/subtract/multiply a different character. Your friend, Bobby." > > That control only makes it slightly more of a pain in the ass to code > vs. dealing with future whining. Hrm. Is it that complicated to implement (2) that the other options are better? I would've thought after the great post-X11 rewrite, rosegarden code should be in better shape. ;-) But then again, I've seen systems that were rewritten eventually bitrotting into something worse than its original state. Oh well. > As to the period or not, I'm going to just code the period and users > can get over that one. No option. Options CAN grow out of control, > like amoebae. Yeah, so I think we should just add a field for the abbreviation, and leave out the number-of-characters dial, the non-option of appending a period, etc.. Let the user make all the choices himself and eat his own dogfood, I say. :-P > (See, if you ask for stuff in this McIntyre guy's area of actual > knowledge, interest and ability, instead of obscure sequencer timing > froofram he's too dumb to understand anyway, he gets all cheerful and > helpful and stuff, and even gets his pretty fingers dirty writing icky > code.) [...] Area of interest, eh? Hmm. Would you happen to know where I can get a good soundfont for trumpets? The current trumpet patch in my (software) synth sucks. It sounds *nothing* like a trumpet, more like a wet oboe. I'd be so obliged! (I do have a clavinova with a good trumpet synth, but I've a hard figuring out how to hook up the MIDI port correctly. Plus, it's in another room from my PC, so it's kinda inconvenient to work with. *And* I bought the wrong cable for it (and procrastinated past the refund date), so I don't feel particularly motivated to buy another one just yet.) Which brings me to another rosegarden-related question: is there a way to adjust the playback volumes for individual tracks? I often find myself in a situation where I have very good soundfonts for individual instruments, but they sound horrible together because the volume of the patches don't match, so you have this magnificent french horn sound at ff that gets covered over by a puny flute at mp. So I end up having to artificially scale the dynamics of individual tracks (which throws off rosegarden's dynamics markings) in order to balance things out. Or is this something best done elsewhere? T -- Obviously, some things aren't very obvious. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
