WEDEL Music Editor
WEDEL Music Editor: Menu File *
WEDEL Music Editor: Edit Menu *
WEDEL Music Editor: Misc Menu *
WEDEL Music Editor: Symbols Menu *
WEDEL Music Editor: Format Menu *
 
The main functionalities of the WEDEL Music Editor are: Detailed functionalities is: Plus the following functionalities for navigating among/towards other components


WEDEL Music Editor: Menu File

It is comprised of the following functionalities

In the window bottom a set of buttons are present. Their functionalities are explained as follows:

Validate: validates a change to make it definitive.
Validate All: validates all the changes/commands that are present in the list.
Invalidate: invalidates the selected commands.
Undo Last: invalidates only the last command.
Flush: eliminates all the validated command starting from the first and stopping with the first invalidated command.
Filter: allows the visualization of all the command that are specified by the filtering string – e.g. all the command issued by 1st violin (Vln.I).
Load: loads an additional command list saved in a previous execution, in order to reapply it to a Neutral Version.
Find: searches on the additional command list on the basis of queries -- looking for all the changes performed on lectern, any addition of notes, all the deleted slurs, the changes on a specific measure, etc.
Help: allows the visualization of help.
Close: close the dialog window.


WEDEL Music Editor: Edit Menu

WEDEL Music Editor: Misc Menu part number, this must be inserted by user WEDEL Music Editor: Symbols Menu Since different parts can be present in the partiture, each of which with a different time signature, it is important to understand which is the minimum common multiple of the number of measures of these different parts. This is very important for visual formatting and to present the music in a correct way.

In addition to different time signatures it is possible to find time signatures which refer to irregular values: this means that the basis unit for the measure is intended to be grouped together to form an irregular group. For example: a time signature of 3/8 should mean that in the measure is present figures for a total value of 3/8, that correspond to ¼ plus another 1/8. This is not always true, because usually odd time signatures like 3/8 refer to an irregular group, in this case composed by 3 figures for a total value of ¼.

In the partiture "Don Giovanni", written by W.A.Mozart, there are parts written in irregular 3/8, parts in 2/4 and parts in ¾. We can consider a base unit for visual formatting composed by three measures of the parts in 2/4, two measures for the parts in ¾ and six measures for the parts in 3/8, since each of these measures has a real duration of ¼.

These numbers of measures for each part can be considered a fixed unit base of alignment: this means that in a page only a multiple of this base unit of alignment can be inserted, and that justification is carried out formatting together a group of measures composing a base unit of alignment.

This is the reason for which some additional information is needed in order to evaluate the measure: in the dialog box of time signature signing a checkbox indicating that the time signature is intended as an irregular group enable another Text Control which receive in input the real duration of the measure. While the first time signature is used in the head measure of the page, the real duration for irregular time signatures is used in formatting calculation of justification and line breaking.

This second time signature has to be present and saved for each measure.

WEDEL Music Editor: Format Menu The selection between part and main score is performed by working with the editor at level of part or main score. The results stating the presence of problems are given in a list:

Part XYYX, measure number Y

Part afka, measure number 843

…………….

The dialog should be no modal to allow the clicking on the list of problems to move the Music editor in the corresponding measure.

The module of justification performs also checking on the time consistency of the measures on which justification is required.

It is not out of this context to remind that single thiny spaces can be manually inserted and deleted by the user and saved, so that score have always that spacing until different justification is performed. This guarantee that fine tuning of appearance is always possible. If automatic line breaking is abled the measure anyway change his width to fit the page, but the ratio between spaces, that reside between figures, is maintained.

The selection between part and main score is performed by working with the editor at level of part or main score. The selection between part and main score is performed by working with the editor at level of part or main score. Once a symbol is selected its parameters numbers are depicted on the right side of the dialog box. These values can be modified according to the user needs. Button Ok allow to apply the performed changes without to save the changes into the file. UPDATE makes the changes into the file if the corresponding permission is available. CANC return to the calling menu without any change.

There are a set of numbers to be changed in order to modify the character position in the displayed part.

All the characters displayed are positioned referring to a base line. The base line is the same for all the characters from the font.

There are two groups of parameters to set for a character in a font. The first is related to the position and the second is related to the margins of the selection area.

Position parameters:

There are no exact rule defining the centre of a symbol. Generally it is placed in the symmetry centre of the figure but in case of non symmetric one it should be placed in the bottom-left corner.

Margins parameters are used to define the "selected area". That means a rectangle where a mouse click is considered as an action on the symbol.

By default the editor are using valid value for all parameters, but the user should modify them for a particular stile or for adjusting incorrect positioning.

Also this file have to be modified in case new font are introduced by the user.