[sib-access] Re: How do elongate an arpeggio line
- From: "Kevin Gibbs" <kevjazz@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:58:41 -0500
Dan,
I'll check it out.
Thanks,
K.
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[mailto:sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Rugman
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 6:43 PM
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Subject: [sib-access] Re: How do elongate an arpeggio line
Kevin,
This one gets a little complicated, depending on how much working out of
numbers you want to do.
The simple answer is, TAB on to the arpeggio and use ALT+RIGHT ARROW and
ALT+LEFT ARROW to move between the bottom and top ends of the arpeggio.
This is exactly the same as moving between the right and left ends of a
horizontal line, like a hairpin.
JAWS will say "left end" and "right end" on the arpeggio. I suppose it
should really say "bottom end" and "top end" but once we go down the road of
detecting precisely what kind of line is selected, things get very fiddly
and unpredictable. Just remember that "left end" means "bottom" and that
"right end" means "top".
Once you've selected the point you can use the up and down arrows or CTRL+UP
ARROW and CTRL+DOWN ARROW to move that point up and down.
Using the control arrow keys moves the point up or down by a space and the
up and down arrow keys alone move it by one thirty-second of a space.
Just as a reminder, a vertical coordinate of 0 refers to the middle line of
the staff and a space is the distance between two adjacent lines of the
staff. This means that if the bottom end has a coordinate of -2 then it is
on the bottom line of the staff, and if the top end has a coordinate of +2
then it is on the top line of the staff.
The tricky part is that arpeggios are not a smooth and continuous line. They
are actually built up out of separate segments (or blocks). As you move the
end points up and down, Sibelius will add or remove blocks to make the line
best fit the length you've asked for. This means that the line may not
change for a few key presses, and then suddenly get longer or shorter by a
fixed amount as a block is added or removed.
To put it bluntly, you can guess at what an arpeggio will look like, but you
can't be absolutely certain just from the speech output. Unfortunately, no
amount of scripting will work around this issue.
Dan Rugman
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[mailto:sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Gibbs
Sent: 19 September 2008 04:52
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Subject: [sib-access] How do elongate an arpeggio line
Dan,
How do you move the cursor on to an arpeggio line and how do you
elongate it to roll a chord. You need to make the arpeggio line long enough
to encompass all the notes of a given chord. How do you do that in Sihb
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