If I try to write the bar in the attachment, the bar is 3.5 crotchets long, instead of 3. How can I write to correct this?
Hi, boblalux.
Either use layering - the tail-up notes on one staff layered with the tail-down notes on a second - or place a quaver rest under the crotchet D, to make what NWC calls a "rest chord" (this will force the crotchet to appear to have a quaver length, though it will still sound a crotchet long!). For this rest chord, place the quaver rest, tail-down, first, then "chord" it with the crotchet, tail-up.
If you have lots of this sort of thing, layering is probably best.
MusicJohn, 27/Nov/12
The attached shows the layering solution MusicJohn suggested as well as another workaround, splitting the crotchet D into a pair of quavers, one of them tied. If this is the only time it happens try one of the workarounds.
Here is a one staff staff solution:
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.5,Single)
|Chord|Dur:8th,Slur|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:-6
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|RestChord|Dur:8th|Opts:Stem=Down,HideRest|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-5
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-7|Opts:Stem=Down
|TempoVariance|Style:Fermata|Pause:0|Pos:6|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:-9,-6
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
and a layered solution:
!NoteWorthyComposer(2.5)
|AddStaff|Name:"Staff"
|StaffProperties|EndingBar:Open (hidden)|WithNextStaff:Layer
|Note|Dur:8th,Slur|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Slur=Upward,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-5|Opts:Stem=Up
|TempoVariance|Style:Fermata|Pause:0|Pos:6|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-6|Opts:Stem=Up
|Bar|Style:SectionClose
|AddStaff|Name:"Staff-1"
|StaffProperties|EndingBar:Open (hidden)|BoundaryTop:10|BoundaryBottom:10
|StaffProperties|Channel:2
|RestChord|Dur:4th,Dotted|Opts:Stem=Up,HideRest|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:-6
|RestChord|Dur:8th|Opts:Stem=Up,HideRest|Dur2:8th|Pos2:-7
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-9
|Bar|Style:SectionClose
!NoteWorthyComposer-End
Neither is a workaround.
Thanks all of you. I was hoping for a solution whereby the visible score and the rendition woulld both be correct. Still, the closest I think, is splitting the crotchet into 2 quavers as mentioned, whereby the 2nd quaver is linked with the quaver below. Thanks.
Hi again, boblalux.
I think you may have misunderstood what we're all suggesting. Whichever solution you take, by choosing to make the relevant rests invisible, and by using layers with suitable notation, you end up with a result looking exactly as you wish, with no indication of the way it has been achieved - both the visible score and the rendition are correct.
Have another look.
MusicJohn, 27/Nov/12
I think that you do not understand the purpose of RestChords.
This does not surprise me, since NoteWorthy insists on burying the details of RestChords in the Chord Member Command (http://ntworthy.com/nwc2/help/MNU_ADDCHORD.htm).
It is not obvious that this applies to RestChords:
but it does.
Alas, help for the Notation Properties Command (http://ntworthy.com/nwc2/help/MNU_NTNPROPERTIES.htm) doesn't list 'Rest Chord' in its "series of property tabs", leaving the 'Show Rest' option completely undocumented.
Perhaps it would help if the explanation you linked to is modified with these bold-face words: