I just thougt if it would be possible to encance the dialog in this ways:
… mu moves the selection one stave up (already there in paste special menu)
… md moved the selection one stave down.
… cu copies the selection one stave up
… cd copies the selection one stave down…
… cd 3 … and add a upper third
… mv2u moves the selection to voice 2 upstem
… cv1d copies the selection to voice 1 downstem …
… cv1d tM3 … and transpose it a mayor third
I don’t think any of those make sense for the Shift+I popover, but it’s an interesting idea to consider a kind of “copy and paste” popover, which I’ll think about for the future.
That’s verging on a “command line interface”!
One of the great advantages of the popovers is that you don’t need to learn any special codes, you can just type real words.
Well, it makes me happy if I can suspend mousy movements and clickery when I can get the same result and quicker with some keystrokes.
That’s why I like the popovers so much.
And actually you do not input here real word things like “transpose a perfect fifth upwards” anyway, but instead a short and concise “t5” …
My idea was, eg. to add a second parallel voice to a given line, instead of adding an interval to the notes (“-3”) first and then procede to
select, filter, cut, insert as 1 voice stem down, I could just type somthing like “-3 v1d”, and this could possibly make sense in the interval popover…
Something else that I would love to see in the Shift-I popover is the ability to add named notes above or below the selection. So for example I could type “-g” to add a G below the selected notes. I can see it being very useful in something like this:
Another suggestion regarding Shift-I: in the interest of saving typing time, especially if you have a top line selected and are working down, to group intervals/notes below together. So instead of, as in the example I posted before, “-c,-a,-8”, you could type “-(c,a,8)”.
(And yes, I am aware that this particular example requires you to type the same number of characters!)
I think the problem there would be augmented and diminished intervals - you couldn’t use “a” or “d” for augmented or diminished, unless the popover was case sensitive. Again, we’d be getting towards command line entry at this point…
I can’t speak for everyone else, but personally I would find myself adding notes by name far more frequently than adding augmented or diminished intervals. But if the commas were to be kept it should be a non-issue, as “a” and “d” would only signify augmented and diminished when prepending a number. i.e. “a,d,-a4,d2”