Is there a user-friendly explanation of how to use PageTextMaestro.nw and PageText.nw?
I thought I had them figured out a few months ago, but now I'm befuddled. The highly technical discussion that started 7 years ago and continued 4 years ago is way over my head and the sample file isn't helpful
I've finished my project printing page headings the old way, so there's no urgency, but thought it might be worth asking because most users are probably as technically challenged as me.
Hi Lawrie,
Thank you for this. The next time I try to use the pagetxt tools, I'll come back to your message for guidance.
I think the key is knowing to choose Custom1 or Custom2 only for what is not already in the File Information box (Title, Author, Lyricist, Copyright notice 1, Copyright notice 2, and Comments. Somewhere in the user forum there's a mention of how to set things up in the Comments box, but there are far too many forum entries about this wonderful tool to try to find that one today.
Here, I was rewriting a 7 page 500-plus bar part for a 3 movement suite that was printed too faintly (and blurry) to read on a music stand, particularly in bars full of leger-line notes that ran together, making if difficult to see where the staff left off and the leger lines began. I created BMP images from the PDFs, processed them with SharpEye, converted them with Niversoft's MusicXML - Noteworthy tool, edited them. Having finished and proof-read the music, now it was time to print the pages.
I probably spent 5 or 10 hours trying to figure out how the pagetxt tools would do what I needed. Since I was facing a deadline, I gave up and finished my project the old-fashioned way, creating a separate file for each movement and printing my desired headers for the second and subsequent pages as ordinary text entries centred above the middle bar of the top system of each page.
I eventually got what I needed on my title pages, but it took a lot of trial and error, and I doubt if I could succeed again without repeating the trial and error learning experience. Looking back, it was probably Custom2 that made my last problem in the title pages go away, but who knows?
Secondary pages, no go. No matter what I did I could not get headings to work.
What I was trying to create was:
First page of each movement: (single spaced) Suite from
THE NAME OF MY FAVOURITE BROADWAY MUSICAL
1. DRUNKEN WALTZ
Contrabass kazoo in F
Author and arranger info
(If necessary these two lines could be one. )
The problem I had was that I could make everything the first two lines on the first page look right, but when I added a third line, only one of the three would display. I think I eventually made it work using Custom1 and Custom 2, as well as Title and Eventually this seemed to work.
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.751,Single)
|User|PageTxtMaestro.nw|Pos:1
|User|PageTxt.nw|Pos:30|PgStyle:Custom1|Text:"Suite from%br%THE NAME OF MY FAVOURITE BROADWAY MUSICAL%br%(Composer name)"|Fnt:PageTitleText|YLoc:Top|XLoc:Center|PgCtrl:"Odd Pages"|FntSz:0.5|CY:-12|Color:6
|User|PageTxtMaestro.nw|Pos:2.5
|User|PageTxt.nw|Pos:-1|PgStyle:Title|Text:%Title%|Fnt:PageTitleText|YLoc:Top|XLoc:Center|CY:8|PgCtrl:"Odd Pages"
|User|PageTxtMaestro.nw|Pos:1
|User|PageTxt.nw|Pos:0|PgStyle:Custom2|Text:"Contrabass kazoo in F"|Fnt:PageTitleText|YLoc:Top|XLoc:Left|PgCtrl:All|FntSz:0.5|CX:1|CY:15|Color:6
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
On the second and third pages of each movement I wanted :My Favourite Broadway Musical- 1. 1. DRUNKEN WALTZ [/size] Contrabass kazoo in F - page N
but I simply decided I couldn't afford more time for experimentation.
Hopefully I've explained what I did and what went wrong. It's hard to do this accurately a couple of days afterwards.
When first inserting a Pagetxt item, you're given several choices, but I coudn't find any explanation of that they mean:
- Page style New
- Page style Once
- Page style Author
- Page style Copyright
Page style Custom1 - Page style Custom2
- Page style Title
There's probably a couple more, the UserPrompt doesn't facilitate copying the menu. What does each of these mean and when should each be used? A narrative help file could be useful.
Don't worry about replying. If I find the time, I'll try to draft up some sort of short narrative as a message in the forum.
Thank you so very much, Lawrie, this helped a tremendous lot. You've allowed me to achieve what I wanted, as shown in the attachment (without the typo that's there now).
Best wishes from (hopefully temporary) snow country.