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General Discussion / Re: Alternative notes per lyrics.
Last post by Mike Shawaluk -
There is a user object which will do what you want, called CueHeads.ms.  You place a copy of the object at the start of the staff that contains the notes that you wish to have smaller noteheads. Then, on the desired notes, you change the notehead to a Blank Space. The object will automatically find the notes with the blank noteheads and draw in a smaller notehead. The properties of the CueHeads.ms object will let you specify the size of the cue noteheads. It defaults to 70% of a full size notehead.

To change the specific noteheads to blank space noteheads, do the following:
  • With nothing selected, hover over the notehead with the cursor.
  • Right-click and choose Noteheads > Blank Space.

You will probably want to manually adjust the stem length of the notes with smaller noteheads. If you are using split stem chords, this might be a problem because Noteworthy Composer doesn't let you set the stem lengths of the up and down notes individually. It might work best to have those notes on a layered staff.
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General Discussion / Alternative notes per lyrics.
Last post by bjhall1950 -
Is there a way in NoteWorthy to change the note head size for individual notes?

I have seen this in engravings from publishers and would like to incorporate it in some songs I have written.

In the attached image, you can see that the alternative notes (smaller note heads) would only be played on the 2nd and third stanzas of the song. The first image shows what NotWorthy looks like, and the second image is what the original score looks like at the same place.

Your help or suggestions would be deeply appreciated.

BJ
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General Discussion / Re: Scriptorium Update
Last post by Richard Woodroffe -
Folks
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General Discussion / Re: Differing configurations/spacings in a single piece of music
Last post by Bart -
Thank you, Opagust.
The boundary offset option is also very useful for songs with a refrain and several verses.

In the past I always moved the lyrics of the verses and of the refrain into separate staves with hidden rests (but with option to always show lyrics), and layering on a staff with music. With the collapse options, I could then to achieve the same result, but by playing with the boundary offset it is even easier.

Your solution for score that starts with a refrain and four verses goes as follows:
Put the lyrics for the refrain in the lowest lyric line and reduce the boundary (which defaults to 26) to 12.
In this case you cannot set the lyrics off for the refrain, since it is needed for at least one line, so the underscore trick is needed where for the lines where you don't want to pop up the refrain. If the refrain were at the end, no underscores would be needed.

Bart
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General Discussion / Re: Differing configurations/spacings in a single piece of music
Last post by Opagust -
You can try the following:

First: Select the entire intro, press <Alt><Enter> to get the Notation Properties pop-up, go to the 'Notes' tab and select 'Never' under 'Lyric Syllable'. Then you can remove the extra spaces before the lyrics.

Second: At the start of the staff: 'Insert/Boundary Change...' and select 'Set new boundary offset' and lower the 'Lower' value.

Third: at the end of the intro: 'Insert/Boundary Change...', 'Reset Default'.

Finally: Go to 'Print Preview' to see the result and adjust until a good enough result.
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General Discussion / Differing configurations/spacings in a single piece of music
Last post by Solong -
Possibly asked before but I can't find it! I have a 5 verse song with the verses under the staff - no problem, but I also have a long intro which ends up widely spaced since the Lyric configuration applies to everything. For years I've been putting numerous spaces before the start of the lyrics to get them in the right place but, of course, the staves in the intro remain very widely spaced.
So: is there a better way of doing this? Is it possible to only apply the Lyrics and Lyric configuration to the piece of music they apply to and thus have the long intro print without huge spaces?