thanks. (maybe could someone update http://musescore.org/en/node/11723 with those links and a note at the top that this has been incorporated into 2.0)
I have a few issues to report when I take an odd time leadsheet and do fill-with-slashes, but I don't know if I do that here or somewhere else (maybe you can tell me where):
- Some measures are not slashed (e.g. the first 6/8 measure and the second 4/4 measure in attached .png).
- Eight note rests (e.g. in the 5/8 measures) are converted to slashes but lack the beams, so it is not clear to determine if those are eigths (and if I set beam properties to "no beam", then those eighths rests appear identical to quarter rests).
- Starting on the B-9 E9sus measures, upon filling with slashes, eight notes appear at the end of the measures tied over, and I loose the rhtyhms that were originally notated. Expected behavior would be the rhythms already notated as notes remain after filling with slashes.
There was a bug in the RC (and earlier) versions there slash fill did not deal well with certain time signatures - eg, 5/8. This is fixed for the final release. So if I take your "before adding slash" file, select all, and run the fill, I get slashes everywhere, and the notes in bar 24 and elsewhere are not clobbered. So that much is good news.
Unfortunately, slashes in 5/8 and other odd time signatures still try to beam. I hadn't thought of that when writing this tool. Oh well, an enhancement for the next release I guess. Meanwhile, these *are* just ordinary notes with a special "Fix to line" property set in the Inspector. So you can tweak those measures to look however you like. One dotted slash and one non-dotted one, perhaps? Just click the first note, press "5 ." to turn it into a dotted quarter, then click the second and press "5" to turn it into quarter. Then copy & paste that measure as desired.
Ultimately, I could conceivably try to glean this from the beam group info in the time signature properties. Suggestions welcome. Probably best to file an issue for this specifically - handling of slash fill in time signatures where the time signature denominator is 8 or greater but the numerator is not divisible by 3 are the places where this will come up.
Confirming that windows nightly 6e47f74 is handling bar 24 and later ok. I do notice that if I already have a rhythm notated in a measure and apply slash notation to that measure, it adds slashes as a second voice in addition to the rhythms already notated, so looks confusing. Not necessarily something wrong with your implementation, and now that I think about it, adding a separate voice as it is doing is probably the desired action. (In retrospect I should fill with slashes before notating specific rhythms, and I can always work around.)
I made a issue "handling slashes for time signatures where denominator >8 and numerator not divisible by 3" http://musescore.org/en/node/51741 and I provided test file with a few different time signatures. My suggestion would be: always use a stem for eights and shorter. This removes all ambiguity about what duration every slash represents.
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It not needed anymore, see http://musescore.org/en/node/42631#fill-with-slashes and http://musescore.org/en/node/42631#toggle-rhythmic-slash-notation
thanks. (maybe could someone update http://musescore.org/en/node/11723 with those links and a note at the top that this has been incorporated into 2.0)
I have a few issues to report when I take an odd time leadsheet and do fill-with-slashes, but I don't know if I do that here or somewhere else (maybe you can tell me where):
- Some measures are not slashed (e.g. the first 6/8 measure and the second 4/4 measure in attached .png).
- Eight note rests (e.g. in the 5/8 measures) are converted to slashes but lack the beams, so it is not clear to determine if those are eigths (and if I set beam properties to "no beam", then those eighths rests appear identical to quarter rests).
- Starting on the B-9 E9sus measures, upon filling with slashes, eight notes appear at the end of the measures tied over, and I loose the rhtyhms that were originally notated. Expected behavior would be the rhythms already notated as notes remain after filling with slashes.
That's been fixed in a later nightly build
There was a bug in the RC (and earlier) versions there slash fill did not deal well with certain time signatures - eg, 5/8. This is fixed for the final release. So if I take your "before adding slash" file, select all, and run the fill, I get slashes everywhere, and the notes in bar 24 and elsewhere are not clobbered. So that much is good news.
Unfortunately, slashes in 5/8 and other odd time signatures still try to beam. I hadn't thought of that when writing this tool. Oh well, an enhancement for the next release I guess. Meanwhile, these *are* just ordinary notes with a special "Fix to line" property set in the Inspector. So you can tweak those measures to look however you like. One dotted slash and one non-dotted one, perhaps? Just click the first note, press "5 ." to turn it into a dotted quarter, then click the second and press "5" to turn it into quarter. Then copy & paste that measure as desired.
Ultimately, I could conceivably try to glean this from the beam group info in the time signature properties. Suggestions welcome. Probably best to file an issue for this specifically - handling of slash fill in time signatures where the time signature denominator is 8 or greater but the numerator is not divisible by 3 are the places where this will come up.
Confirming that windows nightly 6e47f74 is handling bar 24 and later ok. I do notice that if I already have a rhythm notated in a measure and apply slash notation to that measure, it adds slashes as a second voice in addition to the rhythms already notated, so looks confusing. Not necessarily something wrong with your implementation, and now that I think about it, adding a separate voice as it is doing is probably the desired action. (In retrospect I should fill with slashes before notating specific rhythms, and I can always work around.)
I made a issue "handling slashes for time signatures where denominator >8 and numerator not divisible by 3" http://musescore.org/en/node/51741 and I provided test file with a few different time signatures. My suggestion would be: always use a stem for eights and shorter. This removes all ambiguity about what duration every slash represents.
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.