Changing Notehead Letters to Numbers
Hello.
I would like to use Jianpu-style numbered notation for my particular project, but I understand this is not an option in Musescore at this time.
What would be satisfactory, however, would be to have the numbers inside the notehead. I would like something like Pitch Name Notehead Scheme, only with 1-7 instead of C-B. Thus rename C to 1, D to 2, E to 3, F to 4, G to 5, A to 6, & B to 7. This system adds a sharp or flat when applicable, which would work very well for my project.
How would I go about either creating a Notehead Scheme with these numbers inside of the noteheads or going into the system & changing the letters to numbers?
Also, this April 23, 2021, is Jianpu still not an option for Musescore? (Just making sure I wasn't reading an old post.)
I appreciate any guidance you can give me.
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You could use the notenames plugin and modfiy it to your needs.
For noteheads with those numbers in them I guess your out of luck though, except for maybe porting https://musescore.org/en/project/add-note-name-noteheads to 3.x and modifying it to show numbers.
In reply to You could use the notenames… by Jojo-Schmitz
if someone makes this it would be nice to share it with those who are not so good at re-writing plugins
In reply to if someone makes this it… by wolfgan
This is the relevant code snippet
Just replace the letter with numbers. You may drop the
qsTranslate("InspectorAmbitus",
(and the closing paren), but don't need to)Thank you so much for your helpful replies.
I think I will be able to manage substituting numbers for letters in that code chain, but where do I find this chain?
Sorry for my confusion.
In reply to Thank you so much for your… by LadyBluebell
In the plugin from https://musescore.org/en/project/note-names
In reply to In the plugin from https:/… by Jojo-Schmitz
I'm really sorry. I downloaded the Note Names plugin (Version 3.x). I changed my Musescore language to British English as not to possibly screw up my letter note input. Yet I'm not really sure just what to open or where to change it, where this list is.
Locale_en, TS File?
Or do I need to somehow use a modified keyboard & change the pertinent QWERTY letters to the numbers I want?
Sorry again for my confusion. I appreciate your help.
In reply to I'm really sorry. I… by LadyBluebell
The qml file. Better also change its name to e.g notenumbers.qml and internaly in the file too, so you find it in the plugin manager under a proper name:
menuPath: "Plugins.Notes." + qsTr("Note Names")
to
menuPath: "Plugins.Notes." + qsTr("Note Numbers")
My relative designed me a plugin that puts in the note numbers a while back. I'm sure I uploaded it to Musescore. It goes 1-7 so the C6 will need to be altered to 1+ or 8. The bass keys 1-7 and I put L2 L3 etc. the name allocated to it was Number AJF. if you can find it as a plugin
Thank you all for your help.
I have downloaded the Note Numbers plugin, run it, & gotten the numbers above the staff. This is similar to how the Note Names has worked for me in the past.
I have LibreOffice, Apache Open Office, & of course Notepad. LibreOffice claims the qml file is corrupt & won't open it, while Open Office & Notepad will open it, but most of the symbols are rather nonsensical.
I have access to Microsoft Office on another computer. Would Word work, or is there some software I need to download to alter the qml file?
I really appreciate everyone's help.
In reply to Thank you all for your help… by LadyBluebell
Any decent text editor can edit this. Some may not deale properly with the flats and sharps though, which are UTF8 characters, others, like Notepad, might stumble accross the file having UNIX style line endings rather then DOS style ones.
You can also just use MuseScores builtin Plugin Editor
For whatever reason, I was able to pull up this qml file in Word in a recognizable format. I created 2 files that ended in qml.txt that perhaps might be of use of interest to someone.
The Numbers was switched to all numbers in the default order, number then accidental, & I altered Jianpu to accidentals then numbers. Not sure if this is accurate naming, but this is the difference with the files I altered.
I appreciate everyone's help.
In reply to For whatever reason, I was… by LadyBluebell
You need to loose the .txt extension
In reply to You need to loose the .txt… by Jojo-Schmitz
I'll play around with that later. I tried a few times, but txt was always added to the end, even though I certainly didn't add it. I just wanted to make sure it saved. I'm sure I can remove it, though.
In reply to I'll play around with that… by LadyBluebell
That's because Word is not really a good text editor.
In reply to I'll play around with that… by LadyBluebell
Notepad is better.
In reply to Notepad is better. by mpvick
But just slightly. At least in Windows 7 it was crap and couldn't deal with UNIX line endings. Seems improved with Windows 10, but there it seems to have been renamed to "Editor".
At least it doesn't tamper with the extension, like Word or WordPad does