From: unruh on
On 2010-01-21, Robert Riches <spamtrap42(a)verizon.net> wrote:
> On 2010-01-21, Bob Tennent <BobT(a)cs.queensu.ca> wrote:
>> On 21 Jan 2010 19:05:07 GMT, Robert Riches wrote:
>> > Is there a current music notation editor for Linux that handles
>> > insertion and deletion of notes/rests in the middle of a
>> > sequence?
>> >
>> > When NoteEdit was still alive, it allowed inserting and deleting
>> > notes and rests in the middle of sequences. The later notes and
>> > rests would automagically shift themselves over measure bars.
>> > However, NoteEdit has fallen into disrepair and has been thrown
>> > under the KDE3 -> KDE4 bus; it apparently won't even compile from
>> > source on a KDE4 system.
>> >
>> > In the current Linux music notation editors I have found (NtEd,
>> > MuseScore, and Rosegarden), measure bars are hard barriers, and a
>> > sequence of notes and rests won't flow over them. I have
>> > searched about everywhere I could think of to find a Linux music
>> > notation editor that supports insertion and deletion similarly to
>> > the way NoteEdit did.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions? (I'd really rather not have to write such an
>> > editor myself...)
>>
>> Possibly Canorus:
>>
>> http://canorus.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> or Denemo:
>>
>> http://www.denemo.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> I use MusiXTeX myself.
>>
>> Bob T.
>
> Thank you for those suggestions. I'll give them a try.

It looks like denemo also has hard bar lines.

>