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General Discussion / Dotted ties
I am sure that I have read about this (possibly even asked) before, but I have been through the forums and can't find a reference.  :-[
I want to have a dotted tie connecting 2 quavers for lyric purposes in 2 verses. Is there a way?
Thanks in advance - and a happier new year.
Paul
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General Discussion / Accent and tenuto
Hi folks,

Is there a way to put the accent and tenuto symbols above the staff rather than just above the note (where they can easily disappear into the staff!). I've tried playing with the properties with no joy.
Thanks in advance
Oh and edit so they can be above/below!
Paul
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General Discussion / Printing as an image file
Hello all,

I have taken on a task which involves inputting a psalm chant of 7 bars in NWC and then including it in an A5 "music sheet" which has general information in it, then the psalm music and then the psalm words. At the moment, I have to print it either directly or as a pdf and then scan it to get an image I can paste into my DTP program. Is there any way I can produce an image file directly (I seem to recall there used to be an option to create an "EMF" file, that may have been in v 1.75?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Paul
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General Discussion / Re: Collapsing stave /lyrics
Without seeing the score in question, it is hard to give exact advice. I don't know if the refrain is at the beginning or the end, but let's assume it's the end, because that is a little easier. The approach I use for this situation is to put the refrain words on the highest numbered verse, and then at that point in the score, you would insert a boundary object with "Set new boundary offset" checked, and change just the lower margin. You will need to experiment a bit to get the right setting, but the idea is to bring the 5th verse up so that it is at the same spot that the first verse would have been.

If your refrain is at the beginning of the song, it would be a little more complicated, but let's save that for another post, unless that's your current situation.

Let me know if the above makes sense.

Mike - many thanks, for what I need at the moment that has worked fine.
Rick and Bart - thank you for your contributions too - food for thought in the future.

Paul
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General Discussion / Collapsing stave /lyrics
... I have just successfully collapsed a stave for a hymn I am using, so that the bass clef is only visible in the refrain.
However, I have 5 verses and one refrain, so there are 4 blank lyric lines in the refrain. Is there any way I can not have the 4 blank lyric lines without having two separate scores?

Many thanks in advance

Paul
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General Discussion / Re: Persistent (stuck) notes
Thank you to all, especially Rick, this has cured the problem. I have actually removed the ties and adjusted the lyriucs where necessary, as I am obviously being thick and am unable to find a "muted note" property to deal with it correectly.

I think a user tool would be very helpful if this should arise in the future; mind you I've only really used the one which splits a stave with 2 parts on it into two separate staves (with mixed results if the vocal parts cross over!)

thanks again

Paul
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General Discussion / Re: Persistent (stuck) notes
I don't.


The stuck notes are caused by muted tie destinations on tied notes that are not muted.
To fix, unmute the tie destination note in these staves and measures:
Flute II 742
Oboe II 79, 170, 741
Violin I 5, 386
Violin II 5, 385
Soprano I 305, 313, 742
Tenor 305
Bass 600

Thanks Rick

I will look at that tomorrow (too knackered tonight as I've just done a 350 mile drive back home from holiday).

Paul
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General Discussion / Re: Persistent (stuck) notes
Don't forget to check hidden staves...
Yes, I did find a couple but they weren't the cause.
The file is movements 4-11 of the B minor Mass at https://nwc-scriptorium.org/bachj.html#Bachj

I have muted all staffs except the 5 choir parts. If it is played throughout (at least as far as bar 381, start of |"Qui Tollis", it seems fine. However if you try and start a "choral" movement ie missing out the solos, there is a stuck note or chord.
It's very odd!

Paul
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General Discussion / Re: Persistent (stuck) notes
If you click the Stop button several times in succession (or press F6), it will prompt you if you want to send a full reset for all notes on all channels. This might be the function you are thinking of.

However, if you have a score that has stuck notes, there could be a problem with it that is causing this, especially if it is using certain plugins which perform playback. If you would share the score here, we can look at it and perhaps offer a way to fix it.
Thanks Mike,
I've tried that and it doesn't seem to remove the problem. I'm now going through the score muting every staff in turn and see what I can find. I would go for the tied note issue that David mentions, but can't see anything likely yet. If I can't find it, I will link to the file

Paul
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General Discussion / Persistent (stuck) notes
Hello all,

I am currently using a file of the Bach B Minor mass (which I think is on the scriptorium) as a rehearsal aid, and I have run into a problem with stuck notes continuing to play. I can remember ages ago that there was a toolbar option which cleared this, but in 2.75 I can't find this, only the more general "persistent tools" option. Is anyone able to help me get rid of the extra note, which doesn't add a lot to the music!!

Thanks in advance
Paul
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General Discussion / Including small note-heads in a NWC score
As the title says: is it possible to do this? I want three "small" crotchets (organ introduction) prior to a chant. I've searched in the forum and the help files but cannot find anything.

Any help gratefully received

Paul
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General Discussion / Re: Unable to play some files in evaluation edition
I can understand there being limitations on the evaluation version and fully agree with that, what I can't work out is why it would load some songs but not others, especially as we were not trying to edit them (that may have come later if the full version had been bought). I have to say we failed to convince the prospective purchaser.

Paul
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General Discussion / Unable to play some files in evaluation edition
Hi

Having been somewhat busy with other things :) and not checking the forum for a long time, I hadn't actually realised that v2.1 was available (now downloaded and installed!). Over the weekend I was at a folk-singing workshop, and a friend (who had v 2.1) had brought along some Christmas carol files to show one of the course leaders what NWC could do, so downloaded the evaluation copy on Saturday. To cut a long story short, some of the files created in v2.1 would not load (a message about "not created in this version or corrupted files" appeared), some of the files would load, some of the files created in v2.0 would load and some wouldn't! All the files appeared to load ok on my PC. We were stuck! and unable to demonstrate NWC - any ideas? The PC was running XP, not sure what processor.

TIA for any answers

Paul