I guess I'm in the same boat as Jim Jr. I've used NWC since around version 1.3, but I just upgraded to NWC 2.1 today. I love the interface changes, but have a couple of suggestions for future versions:
1) I often use NWC as an accompanist for private practice. In that mode, NWC plays an accompaniment part and I play the solo part from a muted staff. This works fine, but because NWC's interface doesn't move the notes until it reaches the end of the page, it makes it difficult to read ahead. Is there any likelihood that you will add some sort of sliding playback window to future interfaces. If that is not practical, perhaps a setting to "turn the page" a measure or two before the end of the screen would help.
2) Is there possiblity of NWC including a piano clef that would combine a treble and bass clef system onto a single channel. I know you can have two or more systems share the same MIDI channel, but often it would be useful to just be able to put al the keyboard parts on a single group (for purposes of transposing, or pedal marks, etc.)..
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and I like it. While neither alternative is perfect (this doesn't do the second tie), it is another useful tool for my kit.
For completeness, here's the same set of notes, notated using the small note / long note stem technique you suggested:
My base font for this piece is 16 pt NWC2STDA and the user1 font is set to 12 point NWC2STDA, which gives a noticably smaller but still readable notehead.
I am writing a piece for brass quartet. In this piece there are some notes that I would prefer to have played in the upper octave, but I want to indicate an optional note an octave below. These "optional notes" are typically indicated by putting the note head in parentheses. Here is what I did:
