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NtEd - 1.9.2 - a new musical score editor for Linux

Download source: nted-1.9.2.tar.gz (3756 K)
Installation from source	OpenSuse-11.0 packets (1.9.2)     Thanks to Carsten Gerlach <carsten-gerlach at gmx.de>	Old NoteEdit page -->
older versions	NtEd is in Fedora	Debian packages 1.9.2 Thanks to Gilles Filippini <gilles.filippini at free.fr>
Slackware package Thanks to Johannes Schöpfer <johannes at schoepfer.info>	Arch Linux package 1.8.0 Thanks to Smartboy <smartboyathome at gmail.com>	nted is in Gentoo emerge media-sound/nted Thanks to Matthias Vill <nted at cconstruct.de>

New in 1.9.2

• staff group names:
• bug fixes

New in 1.9.0/1

• more special characters
• Lyrics editor
• Save/Load lyrics to/from file
• Dutch GUI translation updated. Thanks to Martin Tarenskeen <m.tarenskeen at zonnet.nl>

New in 1.8.12

• configurable drum system:
• Underscore (_) means space in lyrics
• Spanish documentation and GUI translation updated Thanks zu Massimiliano G. G. <mxgdvg at yahoo.it>

New in 1.8.10/11

• DEL removes a note from chord
• bugs fixed

New in 1.8.8/9/

• Conventionell drum notation:
• Export of drum notes to LilyPond
• bug fixed
• French GUI translation updated Thanks to Benoît Rouits <brouits at free.fr>

New in 1.8.7

• Export of hairpins to LilyPond
• MIDI record bug fixed
• , creates a tie
• Spanish documentation translation updated Thanks zu Massimiliano G. G. <mxgdvg at yahoo.it>

See How to translate for instructions to prepare a translation for your preferred language.

Properties

Note: For smooth replay a PC > 2.0 GHz is recommended. This holds especially if a soft synthesizer like TiMidity is used.

Planned

• eventuell OMR (optical music recognition)
• many musical signs (step by step implementation)
• Perhaps MusicXML output(?)

Mailing List for bugs and feature requests

There is a special mailing list available for bugs and feature requests. The list is open for members and non-members. But I recommend to become a member because otherwise it can happen the answer is only posted to the list. The mailing list has also an archive. So before posting a request or a bug please try to find out whether sombody else already sent a posting concerning the same topic.

Documentation

If you want to translate the documentation into your preferred language Don't translate the HTML pages!!!. Please send an e-mail to me (ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)! I'll show you a way to make a reuseable translation, which can grow with the growing original documentation.

FAQ

The FAQ is part of the TAR archive and the documentation.

Das deutsche FAQ findet man in der deutschen Dokumentation.

First test

        File --> Open ... --> datafiles/nted/examples/example1.ntd
or:
        File --> Open ... --> datafiles/nted/examples/example2.ntd
or:
...
or:
        File --> Open ... --> datafiles/nted/examples/example11.ntd

Press the play button. You should see running red notes and you should hear the music. If you hear the music the program works :-))

If not then try to change the MIDI port ( Configure-->Configure MIDI select a port)

If nothing helps refer to the appropriate question in FAQ.

How to translate

A translation requires to build NtEd "by hand" as described in installation section. If you want to prepare a translation for your preferred language then make sure the gettext package was present during configuration step. If not then install gettext and repeat the configuration step.

If there wasn't any translation for your preferred language before then change to po directory:

        cd nted-x.y.z/po

and make a copy of nted.pot:

        cp nted.pot <my_language_abbrivation>.po

whereby <my_language_abbrivation> is the abbrivation for your preferred language (de, fr, it, ...). Have a look at http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php for more information. To be able to test your translation search for the lines:

POFILES =  de.po es.po fr.po hu.po it.po nl.po sv.po
GMOFILES =  de.gmo es.gmo fr.gmo hu.gmo it.gmo nl.gmo sv.gmo

and append your <my_language_abbrivation>.po and <my_language_abbrivation>.gmo, respectively.

If there is already an existing translation then <my_language_abbrivation>.po file already exists. This way you can complete/correct an existing translation.

Start KDE program kbabel and please do not forget the project settings:

      Project --> New ... (or) Configure ... -->     fill in your name, your email and so on.

Load <my_language_abbrivation>.po into kbabel. In the lower textarea write down a translation of every phrase you see in the upper textarea and save the file. If you don't know the translation of a phrase leave it empty. This phrase will be shown in English.

Instead of kbabel you can also use KAider/Lokalize. GNOME users: Instead of kbabel you can also use gtranslator.

Note! There is a phrase:      "Translation: <no translation>"
This shall be translated into the destination language translation of:      "<language_name> translation by Bert Smith <b.smith@boll.info>"
For instance (German):      Deutsche Übersetzung von J.Anders <ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>

Then type:

        cd nted-x.y.z/po
        make <my_language_abbrivation>.gmo

Type in nted-x.y.z/po as root:

        cd nted-x.y.z
        make install

After restart of NtEd you sould see your new translation. If all is OK and you want others to participate your translation then send <my_language_abbrivation>.po to ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de. Thank you!

How to use the NtEd score in ordinary texts? How to add a 2nd, 3rd, ... verse as ordinary text?

Pre-release

nted-1.9.3pre.tar.gz

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/) for more details.

J.Anders, mailto:ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de">ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
TU-Chemnitz