[JW Lua] Note Shapes

Robert Patterson robert at robertgpatterson.com
Tue Dec 22 14:21:03 CET 2020


The PDK Framework may not have note shapes hooked up. If it helps, you can
transfer shape notes settings from one document to another using the latest
version of my Settings Scrapbook plugin. They are included with Note and
Rest Options.

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 1:09 AM Martin Marris <mmarris at notecraft.com> wrote:

> For a staff, you can find out if “ShowNoteShapes” is true or false. But if
> it is true, how can JW Lua access the notehead settings (Staff Tool / Edit
> Staff Attributes / Use Note Shapes / Settings)?
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> Long story, but I am working on a batch of at least 600 Finale files that
> are very old. For the percussion, they do not use percussion maps and the
> staves are not defined as percussion staves. They have Note Shapes set to
> true in the Staff Attributes. The shape information gets lost when the file
> is exported via XML then imported elsewhere. Worse, the Use Note Shapes
> settings (the notehead mappings) are different from one file to another, so
> I cannot just override the existing info for all the files with a single
> standardized mapping of my own.
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> One clean way to deal with this would be to retrieve the Note Shape
> settings, then set Use Note Shapes to false, and then use NoteMods to set
> the noteheads to match what was displayed when Use Note Shapes was true. In
> fact I have been doing this “by hand” (with the help of some shipping
> plugins including the JW ones) but it is a big waste of time.
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> If it could be done programmatically it would be so much better.
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> Martin
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