[JW Lua] Hairpins

[Jan Angermüller]

Hi Martin,

as you own Perfect Layout, why don't you use it for hairpins?
The plug-in has this barline collision algorithm.
Hairpins can be controlled through JW Lua, except for hairpins that span 
more than two systems: then only the first and the last hairpin part can 
be adjusted.


 >1. You will almost certainly need to call SetCustomShaped(true). (What 
has me confused is that in Finale each endpoint has its >own customized 
bit, so I am not sure how the PDK Framework is doing this without 
specifying the left or right endpoint.
SetCustomOffset uses the boolean value to determine the start/end segment.

void FCSmartShapeSegment::SetCustomOffset 	( 	bool 	/rightside/ 	) 	



Best.
Jan

Am 24.12.2020 um 07:51 schrieb Martin Marris:
>
> Thanks Robert. I am giving up on this one for the time being. We will 
> use the JW Change plugin manually. It has a whole set of commands 
> specifically for Hairpins. We have found that we can get more or less 
> what we are looking for by setting all the horizontal positions to 
> zero or something close to zero. This can be relative to the note 
> entries, or relative to the measure borders. The very existence of all 
> these options makes me think there must be some way to do the same in 
> JW Lua although of course these may be calls that have not been 
> implemented yet.
>
> The JW Change plugin can cope with most of these issues, but cannot 
> always fix sloppily attached hairpins, even though it has options that 
> try to do this. That is one of the reasons I was hoping to achieve 
> this programmatically in JW Lua (by using the “find nearest” stuff, 
> which I am already using to fix the attachment of text dynamics). We 
> are not looking for subtlety. All of the source material is at the 
> elementary level and, for most instruments, hairpins should always 
> start on a note entry and end at the rhythmic conclusion of another 
> note entry (but without colliding with group barlines, so pulled back 
> slightly at the right hand end at the end of a measure). In theory we 
> should use a different algorithm for pianos and other instruments that 
> cannot change dynamic through a sustained note, but I have more or 
> less given up on that one and perhaps it is only engravers and other 
> notation geeks who care.
>
> Martin
>
> *From:* JWLua <jwlua-bounces at jwmusic.nu> *On Behalf Of *Robert Patterson
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 24, 2020 00:29
> *To:* The JW Lua script plug-in. <jwlua at jwmusic.nu>
> *Subject:* Re: [JW Lua] Hairpins
>
> I've never used the PDK Framework support for Smart Shapes. It's 
> complicated even with direct PDK access. That said:
>
> 1. You will almost certainly need to call SetCustomShaped(true). (What 
> has me confused is that in Finale each endpoint has its own customized 
> bit, so I am not sure how the PDK Framework is doing this without 
> specifying the left or right endpoint.
>
> 2. It's possible you are correct that FCSmartShapeCtrlPointAdjust is 
> not what you want. But if it isn't, then what you *do* want is not 
> hooked up through the PDK Framework. So it's worth fiddling further, 
> I'd say.
>
> Good luck.
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 6:14 PM Martin Marris <mmarris at notecraft.com 
> <mailto:mmarris at notecraft.com>> wrote:
>
>     I’ve been trying to adjust the right end-point of hairpins. In the
>     source Finale material I am working with, these routinely collide
>     with or cross the group barlines in conductor scores, but I want
>     them to stop a bit before the barline (this issue gets even more
>     exaggerated if the file is brought into another environment via
>     MusicXML).
>
>     From Google searches it seems like this is a known issue for
>     Finale users, with all sorts of manual and semi-automated
>     solutions. Indeed if I create a totally vanilla Finale document
>     without using any special settings, that is exactly the behavior
>     that I get when placing a slur. If you create a hairpin that spans
>     a measure, it snaps to end exactly on the group barline.
>
>     There is a sample script on the JW Lua website that loads
>     FCSmartshape objects, filters for hairpins, and changes the
>     hairpin opening size by changing the FCSmartShapeCtrlPointAdjust
>     setting for ControlPoint1OffsetY.
>
>     So far, so good. But when I try to change the “X” horizontal
>     settings, nothing happens. I am beginning to think that these
>     “control point adjust” settings have nothing to do with what I am
>     trying to achieve, namely changing the X-offset (relative to the
>     beat, or relative to the measure) of the SmartShape object.
>
>     Martin
>
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