Is it possible to add a left bar line when you have only a single staff? The discussion referenced above says that an open staff (no bar line at the left) is standard with single staffs. But, visually, it would look nicer to have a bar line at the left. Is this possible with v. 2.75a?
If not, please consider this post an updated wish-list item. Thank you.
When you include hyphens in lyrics and a hyphenated word happens to occur at the end of a line, the hyphen gets repeated at the beginning of the next line. I have NEVER seen this repeated hyphen in published sheet music, hymnals, etc.
According to the post at https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=9078.msg64660#msg64660, you can eliminate this second hyphen manually by forcing a line break at the appropriate point in the Lyrics dialog. Yes, this does work, but it is tedious, it makes a mess of the lyrics as shown in the dialog, and you have to keep updating the lyrics if you change note spacing, etc., and the lyrics get shifted.
In short, there should be a checkbox somewhere in the Properties to automatically show/hide these second or courtesy hyphens. And the default should be "hide".
The default slur direction almost always happens to be the opposite of what I want on a given sequence of notes. It would be really helpful to be able to have slur direction (and tie direction) includable on the Toolbar.
Very basic questions. I finally figured out how to view the code for selected notes. Tools > User Tool > .Automatic > Show Note Names > Run > STDIN button.
So, how do you edit the code for your selected notes? You can't edit it in the window that appears after making the selection describe above.
And then how do you get your edited code translated back into the notation file itself?
I placed instructional text above the top staff using Insert Text. It's Staff Position is at 18.
If I set the Upper Boundary of the upper staff to 5 (the minimum - to squeeze as much as possible on the page) the text goes off the computer screen and is apparently inaccessible to editing thereafter, once you save and close the file so Undo is no longer available. This seems to be a simple glitch that could easily be corrected in the programming.
I'm arranging SATB music on 4 staves. Is it possible to have the bar lines entered automatically on staves 2, 3, and 4 once I enter them (and the notes) on staff 1? Or do I have to repeat the tabbing process all the way across for all four parts? Thanks.
Preliminary question: When you use Extend Last System, why does only the staff itself stretch out, but not the notes/chords on it?
Main question: In order to improve the appearance on the page caused by the above-mentioned anomoly, I apply Extra Note Spacing on the last line. Problem: If you apply this feature to a note/chord than contains an accidental, the note/chord stretches out, but the accidental stays in place, creating a wide space between the accidental and the note. Is there any way to force the accidental to stay directly next to its note?
Additional question: Is there a way to apply Extra Note Spacing simultaneously to all the notes in a given vertical position, on multiple staves?
This should be pretty basic, but I can't figure it out. I downloaded a simple piece of music. The inputter entered 2 vocal parts on a single staff (rather than on separate staffs and then layering them). As a result, there are odd combinations of notes and rests. For example, a musically unnecesary eighth rest is lined up vertically with a quarter note. How can I select only the rest and hide it? When I select that vertical segment, the note gets hidden, but not the rest. Thanks.
How do you make the final bar line a master repeat sign? I cannot select the final bar line to change its format. If I insert a master repeat close just before the final bar line, I end up with the repeat sign followed immediately by the default final bar line.
