[Menvi-discuss] For Brandon B. Fwd: Using Lime to Produce Roman numeral figured-bass analysis symbols

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
Wow! This is really nice!
For some reason I can't get the text size to become available to me. I see 
it, but it says "Unavailable." I've opened an old piece, I've opened a new 
piece and I tried it without any piece and nothing opened up.
When I type Mm/II/6/F
Do I want the slashes to be lines? I'm not sure how many characters can fit 
on one line.
Thank you,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: Dani Pagador
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 7:03 PM
To: Menvi-discuss at menvi.org
Subject: [Menvi-discuss] For Brandon B. Fwd: Using Lime to Produce Roman 
numeral figured-bass analysis symbols

Hi, Brandon.
Dug through my Menvi archives and found this. Andy E.'s a whiz and
knows his stuff; you can't go wrong with this advice.
HTH,
Dani

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Andrew English (paper music)" <data at papermusic.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:07:56 -0600
Subject: [Menvi-discuss] Using Lime to Produce Roman numeral
figured-bass analysis symbols
To: goodfeel at freelists.org, This is for discussing music and braille
literacy <menvi-discuss at menvi.org>, braillem at topica.com

Friends,
    Winy Kwany asked me these questions, but I thought more people
could benefit from a little tutorial on creating four-part chorale
manuscripts, and also inserting properly appearing Roman numeral
figured-bass analysis symbols into a Lime file for submission to your
sighted instructors and colleagues.
    Take care!
    Andy English
www.papermusic.org
Music Transcription and Consultation Services.

    Creating a four-voice S.A.T.B. system:
    1. Open Lime and type Alt,f,n to open the New Piece dialogue.
Choose the amount of measures (I always just type in a large number
and delete the extra measures from the end later), choose the time
signature, and choose 4 measures per system and 2 systems per page
(unless you're going to combine Soprano/Alto and Tenor/Bass later on).
If you're going to leave the systems with 4 separate voices, only 2
systems will fit well on one page. Name the first part "Soprano" and
select "Single Staff". Then tap the Enter key.
    2. Save the piece using Alt,f,s
    3. Make sure you are on the first page, first system, first measure.
    4. Type Alt,v,v to open the Parts and Voices dialogue. You'll
notice that the Soprano is the only voice, selected automatically.
Type Alt,n for "New Part" and name it "Alto". Tap Enter. Repeat for
"Tenor" and "Bass" and the last time, tap Enter twice to return to
your piece, which now has four parts on four staves, two systems per
page.
    5. Now you need to move to the Tenor staff using the down arrow
and change the clef to Bass clef: Alt,m,c, tap right-arrow, tap Enter.
Repeat for the Bass voice. You can also change staves in the Parts and
Voices dialogue by selecting different voices: Alt,v,v, down arrow,
down arrow, etc... , and tap Enter to return to the piece.
    Now you're ready to write music!

    Typical four-part chorale assignments are done with two staves,
combining the bass clefs and the treble clefs: Soprano+Alto and
Tenor+Bass. The Soprano and Tenor lines must have all stems going up
and the Alto and Bass lines must have all stems going down. Here's how
to do this:
    Type alt,v,v for the Parts and Voices dialogue. Select the Soprano
part and type Alt,t for "together". This combines one voice with the
voice directly below it. Repeat for the Tenor line to combine it with
the bass line. Then tab around (about 9 times) to the Stem direction
control. Select Up for Soprano, down for Alto, Up for tenor, and down
for bass.
    Now you're ready to add Roman numerals and figured bass symbols. Here's 
how:
    1. Type Alt,e,o for the Options dialogue and tab around to the
check box called "Print system separators". Select that check box and
a little more space will be added between each system. You'll need
this space for those crazy Five-13-7-4-2 chords. Type enter to return
to your music.
    2. All Roman numerals and figured bass symbols are attached to the
Bass line, so select the bass line and the note you want to attach a
symbol to.
    3. Type alt,a,z and change the font size to 10 point. You'll need
all the space you can get.
    4. Type alt,a,t,s for "Chord Symbols" text underneath the staff.
Now you can start typing symbols. Type the Roman Numeral and then the
topmost figured-bass symbol (in braille figured-bass, it's the last
number in the series). If there's only one number, you can tab to the
next note and continue.
    5. If there are more than one number in the series, type enter
after the Roman numeral and the first figured bass number. Type the
second number, hit enter. Type the third number, hit enter. You should
have just enough space for 4 numbers stacked on top of one another. I
don't think I've seen a lot of 5-level figured bass symbols in my
career. Very Important: tab to the next note and type Alt,a,t,s again
to return the cursor to the proper place for the next Roman numeral.
    6. Here are some special symbols that are acceptable to use with
print figured-bass analysis:
    Important note: if you use the Alt-number-pad codes mentioned
below, Lime has an annoying glitch that automatically tabs the cursor
to the next note if the Alt-code stands alone (such as a standalone
natural or sharp sign). This can totally mess things up for the blind
user. Does anyone know how to return to a text annotation and edit it
using Lime Aloud? To avoid this little pesky bug, type a random
character first, then the Alt-code, then delete the first character
when you're done with that annotation. Don't hit Tab or Enter yet, or
you'll lose editing control for that annotation!
    For the sharp sign, use the pound sign (shift+3). Double sharp is
the lower-case letter "x". If you want to get really fancy, the
Alt-code 0215 (see below) is the multiplication sign and looks more
like a double sharp.
    For the flat sign, use the lower case "b". For double flat, use
two "b"s in a row.
    There is no equivalent for the natural sign on the standard
keyboard, so decide with your teacher what you'd like to use to
indicate a natural sign. May I suggest using the percent sign
(shift+5)? Or Alt+0135 (see Alt codes below) also looks close enough
for jazz.
    The diminished sign is a little circle: On a laptop keyboard,
since you don't have a number pad, use the lower-case "o". For regular
keyboards with a number-pad, you can insert the real symbol, which is
like a degree sign: press and hold the ALT key and type 0176, then
release the Alt key. You should now have a diminished sign.
    The half-diminished sign is a little circle with a slash through
it. You need a standard keyboard with a number-pad to do this. Hold
the Alt key and type the ASCII code: 0248.
    The augmented sign is simply a plus sign. It's location on
keyboards varies, but usually it's shift+the equals sign, right next
to the Backspace key.
    There is no way I know of to place a slash over a number (to
indicate intervallic alteration) without sighted help. You'll have to
work around that, I'm afraid.
    Those are the basics. I'm sure other challenges will present
themselves, so we'll deal with them as they arise.
    Happy chorale writing!

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