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<html><head><title>Rulers and cursors</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="kde-default.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.67.2"><meta name="keywords" content="Rosegarden, sequencer, MIDI, audio, music, notation, score, KDE"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="The Rosegarden Handbook"><link rel="up" href="notation-view.html" title="Chapter�10.�The Notation editor"><link rel="prev" href="nv-layout.html" title="Linear and page layouts"><link rel="next" href="nv-tools-selections.html" title="Tools and selections"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name="GENERATOR" content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.13 using libxslt"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div style="background-image: url(top-middle.png); width: 100%; height: 131px;"><div style="position: absolute; right: 0px;"><img src="top-right-konqueror.png" style="margin: 0px" alt=""></div><div style="position: absolute; top: 25px; right: 100px; text-align: right; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #fff 0px 0px 5px; color: #444">Rulers and cursors</div></div><div style="margin-top: 20px; background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div style="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><a accesskey="p" href="nv-layout.html">Prev</a></div><div style="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><a accesskey="n" href="nv-tools-selections.html">Next</a></div><div class="navCenter">The Notation editor</div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="nv-rulers"></a>Rulers and cursors</h2></div></div></div><p>
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The <span class="application">Rosegarden</span> Notation editor window includes two graduated rulers,
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each associated with its own cursor. The rulers are the horizontal strips
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divided up with tickmarks at top and bottom of the main
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notation canvas, and the cursors are the coloured vertical
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lines shown initially at the start of the top staff in the
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editor. In addition to these main two, there are the <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenuitem">chord
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name</span></span> ruler, the <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenuitem">tempo</span></span> ruler,
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and the <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenuitem">raw note</span></span> ruler.
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Note that the rulers are only shown in <a href="nv-layout.html" title="Linear and page layouts">Linear layout</a> mode, and several of them
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are not displayed by default.
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<div class="screenshot"><div xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="mediaobject"><hr><img src="rg-cursors.png" alt="The notation editor's two cursors"><hr></div></div>
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The purple cursor is the insert cursor. It shows the point
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at which operations such as insert and paste will take
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place. You can reposition the insert cursor by clicking or
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dragging on the top ruler, or by clicking with the Select
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tool on an empty part of the staff (avoiding any events), or
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by clicking anywhere with <span><strong class="keycap">Ctrl</strong></span> held down.
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</p><p>You can also use the left and right arrow keys to move
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the insert cursor one event at a time. If you hold <span><strong class="keycap">Ctrl</strong></span> while
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pressing the arrow keys, the cursor will move a whole bar at a
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time; if you hold Shift, the cursor will <a href="nv-tools-selections.html" title="Tools and selections">select the events</a> as it
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The blue cursor is the playback pointer. Just like the
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similar cursors in the main window and the matrix views,
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this shows the location of the current playback or record
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position, and it sweeps across the notation while the transport is
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rolling. It can be repositioned using the bottom ruler.
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</p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="nv-raw-note-ruler"></a>The raw note ruler</h3></div></div></div><p>The raw note ruler is particularly
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useful when editing <a href="nv-quantization.html" title="Notation from performance data">quantized
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notation</a> where the display duration on the page
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differs from the duration of the actual performance.
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<span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenu">Settings</span></span>-><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenuitem">Rulers</span></span>-><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenuitem">Show Raw Note Ruler</span></span>, it draws a small bar above
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each note, similar to the way notes appear in the matrix. In this
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example screenshot, you can see how interpreted, quantized notes
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appear on this ruler. The tenuto notes have full performance
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durations, while the staccato notes are considerably shorter, and
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the accented notes have a higher velocity (more red colour) than
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Raw note ruler marks only notes in the selected segment in the track.
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The colour of the selected segment is used in the background of
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the raw note ruler between the start and end time of the segment.
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<div class="screenshot"><div xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="mediaobject"><hr><img src="rg-rawnoteruler.png" alt="The raw note ruler,
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showing notation whose performance duration value differs
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from what appears on the staff"><hr></div></div>
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="nv-chord-name-ruler"></a>The chord name ruler</h3></div></div></div><p>The chord name ruler analyzes the tonality of the piece, and
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attempts to display which chords are sounding. This is for
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informational purposes only, and you can neither print nor edit the
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contents of this ruler.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="nv-tempo-ruler"></a>The tempo ruler</h3></div></div></div><p>The tempo ruler displays
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the global tempo, and provides a vehicle for entering,
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editing, and manipulating it. It works the same way as the
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tempo rulers in the main window and the matrix editor. See
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<a href="segment-view-tempo-timesig.html#tempo-ruler" title="Tempo rulers">Tempo Rulers</a> for more
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