Isaac Weiss's blog

Hello again! I'm happy to report another productive week.

Update from last week

Multimeasure rests

The question of n/2 time signatures was resolved; I put it to some engraving specialists in a Facebook group, and followed their recommendations, ensuring that in such cases the one-measure "multi"-measure rest would be a standard whole rest with the numeral 1 above it, like this:
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Thus, PR #6211 is finished. Now I'm just waiting for it to be

Hello again! Hard to believe it's only been two weeks of official coding so far. I'm almost done with the first part of my project, a week ahead of schedule—and that's probably for the best, because what comes next will be far more difficult.

Update from last week

I previously had opened a second PR for the old-style multimeasure rests, because I wanted to leave the first PR in a state of completeness and merge-readiness, but

Hello again! Last week I was completely surprised by how easily everything went. I'm glad I got a head start on disentangling the code for MMRests from Rests, because with that out of the way, I had only simple and straightforward tasks.

Update from last week

I wanted to accomplish three things last week:
- Make the thickness and length of the horizontal and vertical strokes of H-bar rests variables, rather than hard-coded values
- Expose

It's June 1st, and the coding period is now underway!

Update from last week

My pull request remains open, but it is, I think, mergeable. No changes to the file format were required; I made sure to write "Rest" instead of "MMRest" in the MSCX output, and to check when reading "Rest" to create the correct Rest or MMRest object. I also discovered a bug that I fixed completely by accident, #306192: Lyrics entry with multimeasure rest selected, so

Last week, I was in a conference call with the other MuseScore GSoC students and mentors, where we mainly discussed the challenge of minimizing conflicting code changes (both among ourselves and between us and the core team). We could work in three different directions all summer, happily oblivious to each other, and find out in three months that it's impossible for all three of our projects to be merged at once. Or, we could submit our

Hello, everyone! I’m Isaac Weiss, and I’m very happy to be able to devote my next few months to working with MuseScore through Google Summer of Code. As part of the program requirements, I’ll be blogging here weekly to document my progress. According to the official timeline, coding should begin June 1st, but during this “community bonding period” I and the other students are already studying, experimenting, and planning. This week, I would like to share