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Topics - Robin L. Øye

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General Discussion / x head notes half note (minim)
Could something be done to make it more obvious that a half note with an x head is a half note?  Maybe a half note with an x inside the note?  Granted, the spacing tells one something, but a half note doesn't look much different from a quarter note.
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User Tools / Inversion?
Greetings,

I seem to remember  a user tool (I thought it was Global Mod) allowing one to invert a selection of notes.  I know I'm not thinking of the retrograde tool, but something that inverted.  Is my memory bad, or my imagination too good?

Robin
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General Discussion / Overriding my keyboard default
My keyboard default is for the Dvorak keyboard.  Once in a while, though -- and I can't really say what the circumstances are -- Noteworthy changes it to the other setting I have on the keyboard toolbar (XP), left in place for my wife, a confirmed querty typist.  This is disconcerting, because the same key strokes which, in Dvorak yield ctrl-shift-E yield ctrl-shift-D in querty.  So, when I'm trying to edit, I occasionally delete a staff.  Annoying, this.
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General Discussion / A new approach to Breves??
With all the new fonts available, could we maybe get round the breve (or lack of it problem) by doing a font which would a) move everything down, starting with a breve, and ending with the 32nd note (eliminating the 64th) or b) putting the breve in the 64th note's place.  I don't know how everything works with respect to placement: that is, what about note placement is intrinsic to the font or if there's something else at work. 

As I am with any idea of mine, I am fully prepared for a wet blanket to be thrown over it.  In this case, I can't believe that I'm the first to think along these lines; I would guess, however, that others have more knowledge and thus more sense than to make this suggestion....
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User Tools / nwc2xml
I've downloaded this program.  How does it work?
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General Discussion / Does Extra Note Space mean Extra Accidental Space, too?
I noticed that when I gave a couple of notes more space that the distance between the accidentals & notes increaced as well.  Here's the example
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Bar
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:#4|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First,XNoteSpace=1
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:10|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End,XNoteSpace=1
|Rest|Dur:8th
|Note|Dur:8th,Accent|Pos:#5|Opts:XNoteSpace=1
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

One wouldn't think from this that the accidentals would get more space, too, would one?

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General Discussion / Control of measure size, etc.
I know that this has been mentioned before.  One can increase or decrease note spacing for a whole piece, but not for a line or a measure ("line" here meaning a line in print preview).  It would be helpful if this were possible. 

As well, the grouping question, brought up last week or so could use addressing.  It would be nice to be able to group sections (strings, winds, &c) when printing out. 

I have a notion that some of these problems are rather more difficult to solve than to pose, or rather, are more difficult than they seem in the mind of the poser of the problems, me in this case.
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General Discussion / Lilypond
Some of you have worked with Lilypond.  I can't get the program to work on my machine (W98SE).  I get a dos screen that, after a while, stops & gives me an illegal operation message.  Any ideas?
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General Discussion / Space and Invisible rests
I think I'm missing something.  When I make rests invisible in a piece, the space they take up disappears.  Now, this is sometimes just as well, but not always.  Is there some sort of setting that I haven't found to control this?