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General Discussion / Touchscreens, graphics tablets and notation
Hi all,

After having a break from noteworthy-style notation input (i.e. arrow keys up/down + enter), I was thinking, has anyone else thought of the possibilities of using a touchscreen/graphics tablet with noteworthy? I reckon it would be more natural to new users, but it would be interesting to see whether it is any faster.

Touch screens may become more popular in the "near" future, with systems such as Microsoft Surface and technologies such as multi-touch being implemented. (therefore a higher proportion of users may have access to touchscreen features)

Anyway, that's just throwing it out there. Currently I believe that the best way to use a tablet with noteworthy is to "right-click" on the spot of the note, then "left-click" on "note", which actually proves to be quite intuitive... (the tablet I'm currently using tracks the location of the pen even when it is not touching the surface, so effectively each spot on the tablet is mapped to a spot on screen. The button is the right click, and the tap is the left click, so to place a note I push the button then tap down, hitting the note button due to my unsteady hand)

I suppose the main weakness would be the need to change note durations... maybe if some handwriting recognition software for musical notation existed...

Any other ideas on pros and cons?


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General Discussion / Tempo Interpretation
Hi all

In a piece I'm arranging, I have several tempo markings in English (I'm used to the standard Italian markings)

here's all the markings written above the music (until the next section):

Start: Vigorously (Crotchet = 100)
Bar 4: Start slowly and accelerate
Bar 13: as before
Bar 19: accel.
Bar 22: wildly
Bar 29: rit.
Bar 34: rit.
Bar 37: Recitative - freely and slower

Here's the questions:

1: Bar 4 (Start slowly and accelerate) - does this mean to slowdown from the current tempo first?
2: Bar 22 (wildly) - is this referring to tempo in any way? (so far I've interpreted this as the way to play)
3: Bar 29-34 (rit.) there is a rit. followed by a rit. does this mean to speed up again then get slower or to keep getting slower from the slower tempo?

Thanks in advance,

Globbilink
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General Discussion / Exporting chords
Hi all,

I was recently reminded of some difficulty I had in the past with sharing noteworthy files with friends who have Finale or Sibelius. Does anyone have any ideas on how you could export a file that had guitar chords written in it? (I don't expect to need this ability for a while, since I'm mainly doing classical music, but it would be nice to know there was a way) I currently use Lawrie's fonts to display chords, but I have used the fretqwick font in the past (I can't seem to find it anymore)

On that topic, does mxml support guitar chords?

<edit> I just realised that you could put the chords in the lyric line... (I usually use text)
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User Tools / "Parts" User Tool
Hi All,

I haven't had time to research this tool or the problem properly because I'm currently preparing music for a wedding.

While I was preparing the music, I invoked the parts user tool on this rhythm:

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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Rest|Dur:Half
|Chord|Dur:4th,Triplet=First|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-1
|Chord|Dur:4th,Triplet|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-1
|Chord|Dur:4th,Triplet=End|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-1
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Down,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-1
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Down,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:Half|Pos2:-1
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:#-3,-1
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

When I ran the tool with the options "remove", "top", I got:

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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Rest|Dur:Half
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,ArticulationsOnStem
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,ArticulationsOnStem
|Bar
|Note|Dur:Half|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Down,ArticulationsOnStem
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:#-3
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

Any ideas on why I'm getting this output? (I'll do more research when I get time)

Globbilink
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General Discussion / Input Methods
I've been wondering about the best method for using NWC's (computer) keyboard note entry. Having started using noteworthy on a laptop, I never thought about using the number pad. Currently I use my right hand on the arrow keys, and my left hand to push [Enter], [Tab], [Space] and practically all other settings such as note duration and properties.

This was all fine, until I tried to input "Drowsy Maggie" from memory (I didn't have any music available at the time). I found that my normal method of inserting each note sequentially led to lots of [up arrow] and [down arrow] presses (due to large number of fifths in the melody). I found inputting a large number of fifths (melodically) rather cumbersome.

This led me to explore other options on the market, and one of the discoveries was alphabetic input. Both the Sibelius and Finale Free downloads had this feature, and (the thing I was really interested in) Denemo (GUI for Lillypond) also had this function (I didn’t manage to find a build for windows, however)
My questions are:
1.   What are the most efficient methods of note entry using the computer keyboard (what should each hand be doing?)
2.   Some general thoughts on “Alphabetic note entry”

Thanks in advance (and sorry if this has already been covered elsewhere)