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Tips & Tricks / Re: How to hide rests to prevent collisions with notes in layered staffs
Thanks everyone for your replies which are extremely helpful. I was able to hide rests for my printout, for the first time. Of course, Murphy's Law dictates that other dominoes fall. In my case, I had used the "X" command to add chords above the top staff, for the benefit of guitars playing along. These chords were caught when I highlighted the rests. When I hid the rests, the chords were hidden as well. I tried vertical offset for the chord placement, but to no avail. I've attached a before and after view. The good news: the hiding procedure worked. The bad news: the hiding procedure worked!
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Tips & Tricks / Re: How to hide rests to prevent collisions with notes in layered staffs
Quote from: Lawrie Pardy –
Hi Jakeness,
you can make rests invisible - |Rest Properties|Visibility (tab)|Show on printed - Never|

For what you're wanting this will probably be fine, but the rest takes no horizontal space of its own - not really a problem if there is a corresponding object on the layered staff to consume the space.

Otherwise, you can use a usertool, like Global_mod, to move the rest off the page altogether (I usually set a rest offset of 2000 for this purpose).  NB you can ONLY do this with a usertool, the NWC UI will only allow you to set a maximum offset of + or - 15.

Global_mod syntax for this is:  Rest Opts.VertOffset=2000


Hi Lawrie,
You are clearly more advanced with NWC than yours truly. I have no idea where to find |Rest Properties|Visibility (tab) etc. in my version of NWC, and the usertool and global syntax descriptions are too advanced for me as well. I have been composing SATB pieces for my choir with NWC since 2007 and can barely read music. I remain a newbie with this software. But thanks for your input!
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Tips & Tricks / How to hide rests to prevent collisions with notes in layered staffs
I'm using NWC ver. 2.75a.2 and have not succeeded in preventing rests from colliding with notes of other staffs when layering. I would prefer to avoid using vertical offset in staff properties. All that does is exile the rests to limbo somewhere above the staff, and this looks just as bad in the hard copy printout. Previous versions of NWC apparently had a Hide Rest feature but either my version doesn't or I can't find it. Ideas....?
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General Discussion / Re: Chord member command without layering?

Hi again Lawrie,

Success!

First note, bass: <shift><down>, NOTE.
Move to tenor pitch above existing note.
Second note, tenor: <shift><up>, <CHORD MEMBER>, NOTE.

This is probably what you meant. The sequence is key. Thanks so much!

And hey, this means I can do some basic four part stuff without layering. How cool is that?!

Jake
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General Discussion / Re: Chord member command without layering?
Hi Lawrie,

I tried it as you described. Each note had opposing stems but they ended up as separate notes--not in the same chord. When I tried creating the chord, the stems once again aligned in the same direction.

I will keep trying to tinker with this...
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General Discussion / Chord member command without layering?
I'm new to NWC2 and am running Vista.
How can I add notes to a chord but keep the stem directions separate, on one staff?
Is it possible to do this without having to layer?

Example: When I want to add a tenor note (stem up) above a bass note (stem down), I follow the usual procedure. I position the cursor to the right of the bass note, move it up to the tenor note pitch, toggle Stem-Up, ensure the note durations match, then activate the Chord Member command. However, when the tenor note is generated, the bass note loses its down stem and both notes now have their stems up.
The FAQ item about Chord Member Command gives no detail about how to prevent this. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Layering has been a problem as I can't seem to avoid layering collisions and tons of rests contaminating the layered score.