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General Discussion / Installing Inkpen2.TIFF fonts
I've searched hi and low on how to install the inkpen2 fonts so I can make chord symbols appear a tad more professional.
I can't seem to find anything on this.  Thing is, years ago, when I was using Noteworthy on some way earlier version, ( when the forum was on Usenet )  I remember using the font and I forgot how I installed it.

I have the fonts in my windows folder, and I have them in the noteworthy composer (2.75) fonts folder.

When I go to (from an anchored text )  Notation Properties>Display Fonts>

 then my font isn't appearing in the display font drop down box.

What am I doing wrong?

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Nevermind, folks, I figured it out.   It was Inkpen Chords, not inkpen2  and it's done via the Page Setup tab, where all the fonts show up, and you just assign the InkpenChords fonts to USER 1, 11pt, etc.  ( whatever you want ).   and then, from
 Notation Properties>Display Fonts> select USER 1 in the drop down box, and your assigned font to that value will appear on the music page.   Sheesh, this is far more complicated than, say, Band In a Box. 
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General Discussion / Re: It's 2021 and NWC still lacks one obvious feature?
If you insert the chords as text, then there's nothing to do... text is text and it's independent of the musical information on your score, sorry... but if you insert the chords using the ChordPlay.nw user object, then it changes automatically when you transpose the score using the "Transpose Staff" Tool.

Try it!! I think this User Object is the feature you're looking for... Unfortunately if you used the "Insert Text" option to insert the chords, I'm affraid you'll need to re-write all of them manually using the User Object in order to turn those "text symbols" into "musical symbols".

If someone out there has any other solution I'll be glad to read it!

D.

PS: Yeah!! I'm still alive, my friends!! And keep reading you all frequently ^__^


Okay,  that works perfectly, thanks.  Funny thing,  I had some other text before the music started,  'Ballad Tempo"  and when I hit the transpose staff after installing the ChordPlay.nw via tools,   I needed to transpose up two semitones from F, , so it it  changed "Ballad Tempo"  to   "C#allad Tempo"   That's hilarious! ,    It couldn't distinguish chords from other text.   Still, I'll just make sure I do key changes before any other text is added where there are scale tones in the text above the staff.   Not perfect, but a timesaver, nevertheless. 

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General Discussion / Re: It's 2021 and NWC still lacks one obvious feature?
Hi!!
I'm asuming that you are talking about a sheet with a typical chord notation above, so please, can you tell us how do you input the chord symbols? I mean, depending on the way you do it, it could be solved or not...

D.

If you insert the chords as text, then there's nothing to do... text is text and it's independent of the musical information on your score, sorry... but if you insert the chords using the ChordPlay.nw user object, then it changes automatically when you transpose the score using the "Transpose Staff" Tool.

Try it!! I think this User Object is the feature you're looking for... Unfortunately if you used the "Insert Text" option to insert the chords, I'm affraid you'll need to re-write all of them manually using the User Object in order to turn those "text symbols" into "musical symbols".

If someone out there has any other solution I'll be glad to read it!

D.

PS: Yeah!! I'm still alive, my friends!! And keep reading you all frequently ^__^
If you insert the chords as text, then there's nothing to do... text is text and it's independent of the musical information on your score, sorry... but if you insert the chords using the ChordPlay.nw user object, then it changes automatically when you transpose the score using the "Transpose Staff" Tool.

Try it!! I think this User Object is the feature you're looking for... Unfortunately if you used the "Insert Text" option to insert the chords, I'm affraid you'll need to re-write all of them manually using the User Object in order to turn those "text symbols" into "musical symbols".

If someone out there has any other solution I'll be glad to read it!

D.

PS: Yeah!! I'm still alive, my friends!! And keep reading you all frequently ^__^


Where is this ChordPlay.nw thing  and how do I apply it in NWC ?        I need serious handholding here, thanks
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General Discussion / It's 2021 and NWC still lacks one obvious feature?
Hi all.

I don't know if anyone remembers me,  but I was on this forum when it was on Usenet,  back around the years 2000 - 2001 -ish, maybe later, I forget.   

Now then,  I just purchased the latest version, 2.75a.2  and a problem I had back then seems to stlll exist.  I'm only interested in doing lead sheets, mostly,  sometimes piano/vocal scores, but that's about it.  Now then, I input the chord symbols above the staff, and I noticed that should I decide to change the key of the song, well, that's easy enough,  but the chord symbols do not change. 

Is their any fix for this,  or am I missing something,  a feature in the app that does it now that I missed?    Reinputting all those chords is such a chore.  I tried searching for this, and just see others registering the same complaint.