From Denemo - Free and Open Music Notation Editor
Frequently asked questions are answered here as well as known bugs and issues.
Unable to load/import LilyPond
Denemo's LilyPond parser does not work on many third-party LilyPond files. It should work on its own output. Sometimes if there are a lot of notes you want to capture from a LilyPond file, it can be worth cutting the notes from the file and pasting them in to a file Denemo can read. Or cutting out things in the original file that Denemo barfs on until Denemo can read it. Music written using \relative will not be captured with the correct octaves for the notes, though.
I see a row of unloaded icons on a toolbar, why?
On windows, after installing, the denemo music font fails to deploy unless you have logged out and back in. No one knows why.
Accidentals apply to notes in different octaves
This is normal - it is a standard convention. Besides, you are more likely to want the same note in both octaves, so you would have to do extra typing otherwise.
Whether accidentals are printed or not is controlled by the default conventions of the LilyPond music engraver. See CautionaryAccidental.denemo and ReminderAccidental.denemo in the examples-directory for examples of how to control the printing of accidentals. Recall, Denemo is not trying to show you the appearance of the printed page, but just to tell you what music you have entered.
How can I start a new line of music (in Denemo)?
If you just want to force a staff line-break in the printed output insert the LilyPond \break command. Denemo itself does not display the staff lines split up as a page so there is no option to do that. Remember Denemo does not typeset the music as you go along, it just lets you input it quickly.
Very long lyric lines?
Easy, just put in line breaks - they don't affect the placement of one syllable per note
What happens when I edit attributes (directives) on a note in a chord?
If you have more than one note in a chord and invoke EditDirectives you can find yourself editing the attributes of a note or of the chord. The behavior depends on the position of the cursor (whether on the note exactly or not).
As an example: if you edit a guitar fingering (e.g. a different font size) the chord is the object that gets the directive - it applies to all the fingerings on the chord - so the next time you invoke EditDirectives you may find yourself editing the font change directive, rather than the guitar fingering, if the cursor is not actually on the note.
There is a Sourceforge.org Denemo Page
The only official Denemo pages are denemo.org and the GNU Savannah project page, where our files are hosted. The sourceforge page is out of date and we have now put redirections to this site from it for those who are following old links.