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User Tools / Re: NWC to LilyPond
Thanks to both of you for your reports.  That'll teach me not to test the install on a "clean" PC.

Because I've written the score translator to use the facilities provided by the user tool, you need to download both executables and put them both in the same directory.  I've updated my instructions on the web site and I hope this should fix your problem.  Please let me know if it doesn't - but in any case, how you get on.

http://www.holmessoft.co.uk/homepage/software/nwc2ly/
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General Discussion / Noteworthy to LilyPond conversion
I've now finished my initial stab at creating a tool that takes a complete Noteworthy score and automatically translates it to LilyPond.  With care, I believe it means you never have to hack the LilyPond files again, making editing and version control of your scores so much easier.  It's a free download, and a full description and download can be found at http://www.holmessoft.co.uk/homepage/software/nwc2ly/.

Comment welcome.
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General Discussion / Re: What is the best way to convert a .nwc file to a ps file?
Can I take this opportunity to do an initial advert for my heavily updated Noteworthy to LilyPond converter?  (I will be posting a separate announcement, but trust this won't count as spamming).  It should allow you to create both PDF and PS files automatically, providing you have downloaded and installed LilyPond.  It presupposes you're running Windows.

It's detailed at http://www.holmessoft.co.uk/homepage/software/nwc2ly/.
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General Discussion / Re: midi to wav conversion for win 7
A fairly standard way of doing this is using Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) and simply playing the Midi file using something like Windows Media Player and recording the result using Audacity.  It works with most sound cards.  Midi and Wav are inherently different formats - one describes how the sound is played (midi) and the other is essentially a recording of a sound.  It's therefore not a "conversion" but much closer to playing and recording the midi.
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User Tools / Re: NWC to LilyPond
I've now made some substantial upgrades to my Noteworthy to LilyPond translator.  I've corrected a number of bugs, and now extended it so that it will read a Noteworthy text file and write a complete LilyPond score.

As before, it's at http://www.philholmes.net/software/ and feedback is welcome. I'm away for a week or so so if you give feedback and it's not answered, that's why.
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User Tools / Re: NWC to LilyPond
A question, please.

I've tried to work this out, but can't.  Could someone explain what the check box "Use stem for articulations" (notated as ArticulationsOnStem in the text output) actually does?  TIA.
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User Tools / Re: NWC to LilyPond
I've now fixed some bits and uploaded a new version (0.1.0.1) to http://www.philholmes.net/software/.

Quote from: Rick G. –
Downloaded it from your site and ran it through a virus checker
:-)

Quote from: Rick G. –
Crashes if you try to run it outside the User Tool environment (no STDIN)
Not a problem except that it wants to send an error report to MicroSoft (I declined)
Should be fixed in latest version.

Quote from: Rick G. –
Many changes to NWC2 since Mike Wiering wrote nwc2ly version 0.21
NWC2 can now export the entire file as nwctxt
This would seem to be a better mechanism to derive a page layout.

Agreed.  However, as I said, I started with a port of the previous program.  When I've got more of the features working, I'll look at using it to do multi-voice songs.

Quote from: Rick G. –
There appear to be problems with RestChords and split duration chords.
I'm perfectly happy to put each voice on its own staff.

Yes - I was aware of that but forgot to document it. It's now documented and the error message is a bit more helpful, I think.  The problem with fixing it is that the current program parses the input one note at a time and then immediately writes the output.  To do polyphony using different voices (which is needed for chords with differing note lengths) correctly, you need to write a whole bar to each voice, and that means remembering a whole bars-worth of output before writing it - so I need some time to think about how best to do that.