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This should really be on rosegarden-user.  I'm cc'ing it now, and

setting Reply-To: to go there.  I don't want to clutter up LAU with

RG-specific stuff, but I will reply briefly to each of your points

here just because I don't want to leave the LAU subscribers thinking

Rosegarden is no use for anything at all.  I'll assume here that

you're using a version at least as recent as 0.8.
Silvan wrote:

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> I'm having a bit of trouble with the whole interface paradigm too.

I think your real problem is that we haven't provided any user

documentation for anything except the notation editor yet.
> If I start from scratch, I create a segment exactly one measure long.
If you click-and-drag with the pencil tool, you should be able to

drag out segments of whatever length you like.  They don't have to be

in multiples of a bar, either -- for example you can hold down Shift

to have no snap-to-grid at all.  You can also create segments by

clicking and dragging with the middle mouse button using the arrow

(select) tool.
> Seems the "join" tool would let me merge segments, but it doesn't

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> work.  I can't find any way to combine segments.

Select them all, then use the Segments | Collapse Segments menu

function.  (We will probably rename it to something more obvious

soon.)
> Should the Segments -> Auto Split item turn an imported monosegment

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> into one segment per measure?  It doesn't seem to do anything.

It breaks a segment on silent bars, as you discovered.
> Um...  There should be a way to move the blue "play from here" bar by

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> hand, instead of having to futz with the transport buttons.

You need to "Show Rulers" from the Settings menu, then you can

click on a ruler to position the playback pointer immediately.
> Also, playback should stop at the end of the

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> song.  It seems to continue on forever.

It does stop at the end of the song, it's just that the end of the

song is a marker that by default is something like 100 bars from

the start.  The GUI for moving this marker is not really there yet,

but the Edit | Change Composition Duration menu option will do it,

rather clumsily.
> What I wanted to do after I created the first one-measure segment was

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> drag the right side of the thing out several measures.

That's what the resize tool should do.
> For example, select the first one, then shift-click three segments

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> over.  It should grab all the ones in between.

Shift-click (with the arrow tool) does individual multi-select,

the function that you expect ctrl-click to do.  You can also drag

out a rectangle with the arrow tool to select everything in it.
> Now say I have three measures in four tracks that I want to copy.  It

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> seems I need to do a lot of stuff by hand.

You can select all the segments in a track by clicking on the

track name button at the left, but you can't yet select all the

segments in more than one track, no.
> That, or some easy facility for splitting off everything below

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> middle C and dumping it into a separate track.

Yeah, that's a basic function we lack (even Rosegarden 2.1 had

that).
> Now that I consider it, another thing you can do with Cakewalk's

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> track/number highlighter thingie is that the Staff view will combine

> all selected staffs into one editor.

Well you can open multiple segments in a notation editor, though

they will all be on separate staffs.  Just select them all then

use the Open in Notation Editor function...
Chris