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Messages - kahman

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General Discussion / Re: Chord sequences
Just to give a little illustration of what everyone else is talking about, here are the triads (without sevenths) with chord symbols in relation to C major:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Key|Signature:C
|Text|Text:"Gm v"|Font:StaffLyric|Pos:-10
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:-2,b0,2
|Text|Text:"G° v°"|Font:StaffLyric|Pos:-10
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:-2,0,b2
|Bar
|Rest|Dur:Half
|Bar
|Text|Text:"Dm ii"|Font:StaffLyric|Pos:-10
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:-5,-3,-1
|Text|Text:"Em iii"|Font:StaffLyric|Pos:-10
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:-4,-2,0
|Text|Text:"Am vii"|Font:StaffLyric|Pos:-10
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:-1,1,3
|Text|Text:"B° vii°"|Font:StaffLyric|Pos:-10
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:0,2,4
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

And about diminished chords such as B-D-F: they contain a diminished fifth (B-F), which causes a lot of tension.  In tonal harmony, the tritone must be resolved (the diminished fifth should resolve inward to a third, we're not concerned about augmented 4ths right now), such as:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Key|Signature:C
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:0,4
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:1,3
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
or
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Key|Signature:C
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:0,4
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:1,b3
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

And to add to what others have said, nobody has addressed the possibility of shifting into the relative or parallel minor.  If you decide to do this somehow, in a minor key, i and iv are minor chords, ii, is diminished, and VI is major.  3, 5, and 7 depend on the type of minor mode you are using.  If you are using natural minor, III is major, v is minor, and VII is major.  If you are using harmonic minor (raised 7th), then III is augmented, V is major, and VII is diminished.  You would probably want to stay with i, iv, and ii.
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General Discussion / Re: Midi problems
Are your problems with MIDI players when you're trying to play from within NWC or after you've exported to MIDI?
If they're when you're playing within NWC, try this:
  • Go to the Tools Menu -> Options
  • Go to the MIDI tab
  • Make sure that there is a device on the right hand side (Devices used by play back)-if there is, something's horribly horribly wrong.  If there isn't (which there probably isn't, then move something (Microsoft MIDI Mapper is probably your best bet) from the left side to the right.

To convert .nwc files into .mp3 files, you should first export it to a .mid file with File->Export (or save as if you're using NWC1.x)  You can then use your preferred media software to convert it.
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General Discussion / Re: Noteworthy Player v. Viewer
Personally, I think that the viewer is more useful for us-most of us use NWC2, for which the player is ineffective.  About the issue of .MID and .RMI files, I think there are enough other players for those that it's not particularly bad (although it would be a nice gesture).
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General Discussion / Re: Noteworthy 2 "optional notes"
What about this old hack, no text required?
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:8|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:1
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:7|Dur2:4th,Grace|Pos2:0
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:6|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:-1
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:5|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:-2
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:4^|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:-3^
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:Half,Dotted|Pos:4|Dur2:Half,Dotted,Grace|Pos2:-3|Opts:Crescendo
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
Made in Notepad!
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General Discussion / Re: Script Programming Reference
To repeat what Lawrie already said, they do NOT have to be written in PHP.  When the program is run, it will be fed the selection into STDIN and STDOUT will go back to NWC.  You can use whatever programming language you feel like using, provided it has STDIN and STDOUT, which most text-based languages do.
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General Discussion / Re: Scanner options?
Copied from another topic:
Quote from: Lawrie Pardy –
actually, there is a pretty good tool called "SharpEye" which is an OCR for music.

Scan, edit in SharpEye, export to MIDI or MusicXML and then import to NWC1 from the MIDI or from MusicXML into NWC2 using Nicolas Hatier's MXML2NWCC converter.  It works quite well.

However, a few caveats:
a) Your source music needs to be pretty good, or you end up with a lot of corrections to do in SharpEye.
b) I find it is best to do as many corrections as possible in SharpEye prior to export to minimise the work in NWC
c) MIDI import is nowhere near as good as MXML import, so it's good if you qualify for the NWC2 beta
d) Some shorter works are easier to simply rekey - especially if you've gained some facility at the task.
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General Discussion / Re: How to make a set of single staffs?
Here's a very simple scanned nonstandard (I think) key signature from Bartok's Mikrokosmos Volume 3, #89 (In Four Parts).  The key signature is C and G sharp, with no F at the beginning.  The book also contains many key signatures with the F for the F sharp on the bottom space F.
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General Discussion / Re: Forum Changes
I see that now the *Dings fonts are officially endorsed.  :-)  I do agree, though, that they have become vital for normal NWC usage, how about also inluding BoxMarks on the CD? 
To the previous subject, may I be the first one to say congratulations on this to Lawrie!
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General Discussion / Re: Touchscreens, graphics tablets and notation
I tried it, and it's not too difficult to do with my pad.
I found it difficult to right-click on the spot of the note.  I think that if this were really to be accustomed for, there would have to be a feature where you can just tap on the spot of the note, and it would be added.  I did it by clicking on the spot of the note and then pressing Enter.
Note durations are no problem, you can just tap up on the toolbar on the note duration boxes.
The main other issue I found was barlines.  Unless the tablet's pen has some sort of programmable key to use for Tab...
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General Discussion / Re: priorities
I think you just described exactly what I was thinking, I should have posted a link to another topic which I was am too lazy to find.
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General Discussion / Re: Underlne lyrics
To see an example of text entries as underlines (as David has just described), see the attached file (NWC2 file).  (Or at least I think that's what David's describing.  Note that the staff's lower bound is 16 and that the underscores' vertical position is -14.  Also, the underlines do not quite cover the whole word in the first staff, but that can be patched up, as demonstrated in the second staff.)
About using the Romanian alphabet, I did a quick test of a few Romanian letters in NWC2 and it could deal with Ă, Â, and Î, but not with Ș and and Ț.  I looked up the character map for *TextEuro fonts, and they only include  and Î of those characters.  (I think.  Lawrie, feel free to correct me.)  You may need a specialty font, if such things exist.
On the other hand, it'll be worth it.  I like listening to Bartok's transcriptions of Romanian folk songs.
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General Discussion / Re: priorities
Having just read [url]https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=6529.0[/u], perhaps a lyrics editor capable of handling rich text?
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General Discussion / Re: priorities
I'm inclined to think that line drawing should actually be a very high priority because if it were implemented, it would make workarounds for many other notation things much easier.  However, I mostly agree with everything else.
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General Discussion / Re: NWC2 enhancements
To add to what Lawrie and William have already said:
About multibar rests:
To get very specific, the script is available at http://nwc-scriptorium.org/nwc2scripts_mbr.html
In order for it to work, you must have first installed the User Tool Starter Kit.

And the fonts Lawrie recommended are essentially the de facto fonts for ornamental stuff.  The various fonts have slightly different purposes: BoxMarks and BoxMarks 2 fit in with the default NWC2 notation font, whereas Lawrie's excellent *Dings fonts are designed to be a complete package, complete with replacement notation and text fonts.  There are also many other useful fonts there.

About ornaments like trills, we do mostly just have text with hidden notes, but we use fonts like BoxMarks and *Dings for trills, rather than having to use things like tr~~~~~~~~  We do think it is quite practical.

And for discussion on n-tuplets, see https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=3061.0 or a somewhat shorter summary at https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=6500.msg44225#msg44225
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General Discussion / Re: Beams across staffs
Sorry.  I thought you meant barlines across staves.  However, you may want to make the rests invisible.  (Select note, right click, Properties-Visibility-Show on Printed Page-Invisible)
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General Discussion / Re: Beams across staffs
Currently, beaming across staffs is only supported for grand staffs.  (Like a piano staff.)
To get a grand staff, right-click on the top staff, select Staff Properties, click on the tab labelled "visual", and under style, select "upper grand staff".  For the lower one, do the same, but select "lower grand staff" instead of "upper grand staff".
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General Discussion / Re: Can we look forward to these features?
Drum notation (X notes and such) is available in NWC2.  However, making it sound right requires quite a bit of effort, though there are tools.
NWC2 also supports user tools, which are written by the general public and can be found on the scripto, although you need to install a starter kit first.  There is a user tool that has been written to create multibar rests available here.
About easily converting a score to single parts, that can be done in both NWC1 and NWC2 through File-Page Setup-Contents.
Guitar chords are not supported, although there are fonts that can be used to make them.
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General Discussion / Re: slurs vs. phrase marks
I agree...
But would they let non-grace notes slur/phrase mark into grace notes?

Lawrie, I strongly support your line-drawing capability idea.  Maybe you should make another font: SwingLines.  (Since your others are so useful.)  And make variations of it: SwingLines would have varying width (more or less randomly) and an imperfect curve, as if it were hand-drawn, MusikLinesSerif would have fancy edges and line width increasing towards the centre for curved lines, and MusikLinesSans would just be plain.  :-)
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General Discussion / Re: Slurs between grace notes and non-grace notes
This is related.
When it is going from a non-grace note to another non-grace not, with grace note triplets in the middle, bad things can happen.  For example:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:16th,Dotted|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Dotted|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:4
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:3
|Note|Dur:8th,Dotted,Slur|Pos:4
|Note|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:5
|Note|Dur:4th,Dotted,Slur|Pos:3
|Note|Dur:32nd,Triplet=First,Grace|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:32nd,Triplet,Grace|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:32nd,Triplet=End,Grace|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:32nd,Triplet=First,Grace|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:32nd,Triplet,Grace|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:32nd,Triplet=End,Grace|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:Half|Pos:2
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
The triplet caps shouldn't be pushed up.  Of course, it's not that much of a problem, since grace note triplets don't affect sound much.

There are also many other problems, such as:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:32nd,Grace,Slur|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:32nd,Grace,Slur|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:32nd,Grace,Slur|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:32nd,Grace,Slur|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:32nd,Grace,Slur|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th,Slur|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Slur|Pos:b-1|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:-2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
Try to get one continuous slur.
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General Discussion / Slurs between grace notes and non-grace notes
Trying to enter some of Bartok's transcriptions, I came across this:
Slurs from grace notes go into either grace notes or non-grace notes.
Slurs from non-grace notes go into non-grace notes and not grace notes.
This can be demonstrated by:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:8th,Slur|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:8th,Grace,Slur|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:8th,Grace,Slur|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:0
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
I'm not sure how it should work.

The main workaround I've found involves layering:
First Staff:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:8th,Slur|Pos:1
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Muted|Visibility:Never
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
Second Staff:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Rest|Dur:8th,Dotted|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:1
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
Changing the value of the hidden rest changes the position of the grace note.  This workaround obviously affects playback.

Any ideas?
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General Discussion / Re: strange sound card behavior
It's the percussionists that always have to stand up.  Especially when playing nice heavy crash cymbals.
And that's how the trumpeters are revenged.  And there's nobody behind the percussionists to blast their ears out-percussionists blast their own ears out with our own instruments!
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General Discussion / Re: Help please
The "hairpin" crescendo is available in NWC2 but not in NWC1, you can upgrade at http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/nwc2/

Two notes on top of each other-if they're in a chord, use Ctrl-Enter to enter additional notes.  If they're not, then use staff layering, which is hard to describe.  See the attached file.  Anyways, someone else will explain it...

I have no idea how to put in an "optional breathmark".
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General Discussion / Re: Marimba
To mark the roll, download a font such as any of Lawrie Pardy's *Dings fonts and/or BoxMarks from the Scripto.  To insert the notation, set a user font (Page Setup), to the font you wish to use, and put it in.
To make it play back, put in another, hidden, staff (Page Setup) with the roll playback notation.  If what I am saying is somewhat unclear, please see the attachment (Requires BoxMarks, although you could replace it with a *Dings font, which I'm sure Lawrie will advocate.)
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Cue notes?
To quote an ancient topic:
Quote from: Rick G. –
This clip was produced in Notepad:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Chord|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:-6|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First,Muted|Dur2:8th|Pos2:1,3
|Chord|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:-6|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End,Muted|Dur2:8th|Pos2:1,3
|Chord|Dur:16th|Pos:-6|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First,Muted|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:1,3
|Chord|Dur:16th|Pos:-6|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End,Muted|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:1,3
|Chord|Dur:16th|Pos:1,3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First,Muted|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:-6
|Chord|Dur:16th|Pos:1,3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End,Muted|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:-6
|Chord|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:1,3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First,Muted|Dur2:8th|Pos2:-6
|Chord|Dur:16th,Grace|Pos:1,3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End,Muted|Dur2:8th|Pos2:-6
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
It may indicate some weakness in the parsing or spacing routines.

However this:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Chord|Dur:Whole|Pos:1,3|Opts:Stem=Up,Muted|Dur2:Whole,Grace|Pos2:-6
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
Could be quite useful in notating organ pedal note as in the attachment.
Variations on it might produce some real cue notes (a much wished-for item).

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General Discussion / Re: odd drum notation
I wouldn't really call that a flam, since I did once ask a drum teacher about whether you would ever hit the same drum with both sticks at once, and the answer was no...

Back on topic, it may be possible that it varies between editions.  Also, it would be awkward to have to play flat flams exclusively between two rehearsal numbers.
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General Discussion / Re: odd drum notation
I'll believe you, it's just that I've never seen one, and I would definitely expect it to be in the PAS Rudiments if it existed...  Ask your son about how it's notated...
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General Discussion / Re: odd drum notation
Exactly-flams are one stick before the other, NEVER at the same time (at least according to standard drum instruction) and are notated with grace-notes.
The PAS International Drum Rudiments (2 pages) are what I've found most commonly used.

I'll have to get around to notating those in NWC sometime.
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General Discussion / Re: odd drum notation
Neither of those would be likely, snares on/off is normally marked with snares on or snares off, and playing with both sticks at the same time just doesn't happen...

It may depend on context in the score, do you think you could attach a picture?
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General Discussion / Re: Putting flats and sharps in chord names
To put it bluntly:
Step 1. Copy text from box (Ctrl-C)
Step 2. Copy text into NoteWorthy (Ctrl-V)

To copy it from NWC into browser:
Step 1. Copy text from NoteWorthy (Ctrl-C)
Step 2. Copy text into compose window (Ctrl-V)

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General Discussion / Re: Ledger Lines: What Do YOU Think?
I would say that it completely depends on the passage.
Personally, I would prefer to have the RH section you have in bass clef be in treble clef because of the context,  because of its length, and because it would probably use less ledger lines that way as well.

Also, it would make it easier for analysis by other people.

Or you could use 8vb.
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General Discussion / Re: What is better with NWC2?
For me, I don't use the hear notes on entry tool that often.  However, there are enough really good features that when I tried to use NWC1 for a project, I struggled horribly.
iTrees and User Tools come to mind as huge benefits.
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General Discussion / Re: question on staff sizes
According to Automatic Beam, it's:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble
|TimeSig|Signature:4/4
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-6|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Bar
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-6|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Bar
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-6|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-2|Opts:Stem=Up
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down
|Bar
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-6|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Bar
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-6|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Bar
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-6|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
I, personally, don't like it that way.

You can, of course, use tools-automatic beam if you can't be bothered beaming it yourself.  I won't deny that it did annoy me when I switched from 1.75 to 2 (how could I when there's proof?!), but I've come to ignore it.
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General Discussion / Re: Tunings other than Equal Temperament
Quote from: matta –
[...] I am building quite a collection of Byzantine music [...] Almost all tunes require bent pitches, some requiring six or seven staves to implement this. These melodies sound wrong (and certainly not "Eastern"), if they are played with Western tuning.

You may be quite interested in Ertuğrul İnanç's Turkish Music on the Scripto.  Of course, you could submit your collection of Byzantine music to the scripto, I'm sure it would be welcome... :-)

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General Discussion / Re: NWC is good. Will it become great?
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A function for chord symbols that also can be transposed
That's Lawrie Pardy's area of expertise.  We'll just wait for him to post.

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A one click option to print all the parts of a big score
Not quite one-click, but it can be done by going into Page Setup and selecting each group.  There will normally be only one anyway.

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with a pdf-option
There are many topics on that, see:

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A dedicated option to create multiple bar-rests
There is a user-tool for this, http://nwc-scriptorium.org/nwc2scripts_mbr.html
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and make them visible only in the parts
I don't know whether the user-tool does that itself, but regardless, it would have to be set to "top staff only", but if the user-tool weren't like that, it could still easily be changed.

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comping slashes would be great!
I haven't got a clue what a comping slash is.
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General Discussion / Re: Arabic text in lyrics?
I don't think Unicode will come in anytime soon.  It would be quite a revision...
You can't have 2 lines of lyrics, each in a different font, despite desires for such, and I don't think it would be too hard.

It is a pity that it's so hard to get these in.  However, I would be surprised if there weren't a font like the one Lawrie would make, since I know there are some for Korean and Hebrew...