19.09.2025, 21:40
(This post was last modified: 19.09.2025, 22:01 by George Bleck.)
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As with most things Gary is working on, I'd expect this is a related in some way to increase the visible size of the notation for his low vision users.
It would be much harder to increase the size with the standard top-to-bottom reading. Doing so would increase the size of individual measures, meaning less would fit per page (screen) width. This would require a much more complex "word wrap" (measure wrap?) feature as you can't just break a measure in half and wrap the notes.
Breaking the music up into a single line of left-to-right scrolling music would allow them to be chained much more easily, with measures being scalable to a dramatically bigger size.
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As a pianist/keyboardist myself, one thing I will add (from a personal perspective) is that being able to see more of the music at once is import so you can "buffer" what's next in your brain. Being able to see only 2 measures of a 4 measure line at time (2x magnify), or worse 1 measure (4x magnify), would mean I'd have less of a "future look" for "buffering" purposes. Not a deal breaker, but also not ideal. As I am sighted, my opinion is extremely biased in that direction, as you would expect. If I had limited vision, but still wanted to tickle the ivories, my thoughts on the matter may "play out" differently (yes pun intended).
As with most things Gary is working on, I'd expect this is a related in some way to increase the visible size of the notation for his low vision users.
It would be much harder to increase the size with the standard top-to-bottom reading. Doing so would increase the size of individual measures, meaning less would fit per page (screen) width. This would require a much more complex "word wrap" (measure wrap?) feature as you can't just break a measure in half and wrap the notes.
Breaking the music up into a single line of left-to-right scrolling music would allow them to be chained much more easily, with measures being scalable to a dramatically bigger size.
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As a pianist/keyboardist myself, one thing I will add (from a personal perspective) is that being able to see more of the music at once is import so you can "buffer" what's next in your brain. Being able to see only 2 measures of a 4 measure line at time (2x magnify), or worse 1 measure (4x magnify), would mean I'd have less of a "future look" for "buffering" purposes. Not a deal breaker, but also not ideal. As I am sighted, my opinion is extremely biased in that direction, as you would expect. If I had limited vision, but still wanted to tickle the ivories, my thoughts on the matter may "play out" differently (yes pun intended).