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1551
General Discussion / Probably it's a stupid question but...
Hi all.

I opened a file I dowloaded from scriptorium and discovered that in the print preview the score showed up being gigantic: just a bar per page!

(Off topic: as I already suggested trough the wish list, why in the print preview the page-up, page-down, home and end keys don't do what they are used to do?)

I went to the Page setup dialog looking for the well known "staff size" parameter and I discovered it's no more present.
I remembered having read somewhere that Eric changed it for something more flexible and powerful so I wandered in almost all the dialogs but I wasn't able to find anything useful.

Last resort (when all else fails, read the instructions...): a search in the help.
I wasn't able to find anything in the index so I tried with the "find" tab.
Well, the relevant argument names were:
IDH_DLGPRINTCLASSIC2
IDH_DLGPRINTCLASSIC11
IDH_PGSETUPSTAFFSZRESCALE
A little bit cryptic, aren't they? ;-)
Anyway, even in the explication there is no clear indication where to look for the staff size parameter.

I think I'm overlooking something obvious.

Cheers
Maurizio
1552
General Discussion / Re: Staccato or not staccato: this is the problem
Quote from: David Palmquist –
In something like 44 years of playing, I have never seen a tied pair of notes in printed music where the first note is staccato.

Nor do I! :-)

Quote from: David Palmquist –
Why would anyone write it?  It just doesn't make sense.

I agree, of course, but it was an artifact of a bar shifting in NWC2.
Indeed, as I wrote, I don't know how I would have read it.

Quote from: Rick G. –
Depends on the instrument. Acoustic Bass is just about right. Any longer and it ceases to sound staccato:

On my sound card, measure 1 sounds right for a Bass. Measures 2 & 3 sound the same.
For most Woodwinds, Measure 2 sounds better than Measure 1

Itrees or Instrument could be expanded to allow different durations, but that would be a bit of complexity for an application that is not a full-fleged sequencer.

I endorse Rick's findings.

Thank you all.
Maurizio
1553
General Discussion / Staccato or not staccato: this is the problem
I'm not sure if this is a problem of NWC2 or a music writing problem.
Take a look at this.

!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble
|TimeSig|Signature:4/4
|Rest|Dur:8th
|Note|Dur:4th,Staccato|Pos:-4
|Note|Dur:4th,Staccato|Pos:-3
|Note|Dur:4th,Staccato|Pos:-2
|Rest|Dur:8th
|Bar
|Rest|Dur:8th
|Note|Dur:8th,Staccato|Pos:-4^
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-4
|Note|Dur:8th,Staccato|Pos:-3^
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-3
|Note|Dur:8th,Staccato|Pos:-2^
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-2
|Rest|Dur:8th
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

I expected the two bars sounding the same, but reflecting on it I'm not sure at all on how I would have read it in a printed score.
What do you think, people?

Cheers
Maurizio