[JWplugins] Cautionary accidental plug-in

[ebiggs1 at embarqmail.com]

Would two separate plug-ins be possible? One for the score and one for the 
linked part?
Or maybe just one for the linked parts and none for the score?



Ernie Biggs
ebiggs1 at embarqmail.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jari Williamsson
Sent: Saturday, March 2, 2013 2:17 PM
To: JW Freeware plug-ins for Finale
Subject: Re: [JWplugins] Cautionary accidental plug-in

On 2013-03-02 16:42, David Ward wrote:

> 1) Accidentals on notes that tie across systems to appear at the beginning 
> of the new
> system. To be useful these would have to apply differently
> in the score  and in each part according to the layout. Ideally, they'd
> also appear or disappear with any subsequent changes made to the layout.

There's a technical issue with linked parts, in that the accidental
state can't be changed in just the score or the parts. This would mean
that if the score and part don't break the tie over system in the same
measure one of these will get a strange looking result.

One potential solution would be for the plug-in to add the accidental as
an articulation and hide it in the score/part. However, the articulation
show/hide state is one of the very few things that the PDK can't access.

There are several approaches I could take here:
1. Add the accidental only if there is no linked parts.
2. Add the accidental in any case
3. Add the as an articulation that the user need to manually hide where
it shouldn't belong.

What do you all think?


> 2) Cautionary accidentals that took into account what was happening on 
> both
> staves of the 'Grand Staff'.

It shouldn't be more difficult to support a grand staff than multiple
layers. I'll see if I can come up with a practical UI that can support
this as well as the suggestion from Ken and others regarding cross-staff
analysis.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson


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