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Messages - K.A.T.

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General Discussion / Re: THANK GOODNESS FOR SYSTEM RESTOR
Here is a picture of my son's computer innards.
It used to be mine and my wife's machine until ~2000; I have forgotten to vacuum it since it was handed down. :-P
[This machine has been working with few problems since ~1992.]
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General Discussion / Re: THANK GOODNESS FOR SYSTEM RESTOR
A bit OT, seeing as none of my NWC files were lost, but...
I was up to date on making backups, but due to circumstances I needed to transfer ALL of my files to my external disk.  THAT is the disk that started acting strangely.  Before I could get all of my files onto my new internal disk, an Error Check was run on the external disk, and every file was converted to a .chk file, whether it was a bitmap, Excel, Word, whatever.  So I now have over 20,000 .chk files with no folders, directory structure, etc.
So, folks, the lesson here is Backup your Backups!

[still looking for a "magic bullet" to put it all back the way it was...]
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General Discussion / Re: clef positions
What I mean by "the vertical positioning is not correct" is I cannot get an F clef to line up with the F line passing between the two dots of the clef.  One of the dots always touches a staff line.  The same (relative) problem exists for each clef (although I gottas admit, the C clef is much closer to being acceptable for some reason...)
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General Discussion / Re: Several question vis-a-vis a Bach score.
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one staff is in 18/16 time, and the other in 3/4. 
If looks are not important, then this one's a piece of cake. 
Simply use sixteenth-note triplets in the first staff, with both staves in 34 time.
If looks are important, then you can still do this but you'll need to "white-out" all of the little 3s, and hide the meter signature on the first staff and enter one as text in its place.
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ornaments which do not seem to occur in any of the fonts I currently have
Do you have the Opus suite?  These fonts contain quite a few ornaments.  I think I got mine with a Scorch plug-in.
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notes on either side of a beam
There was a thread dealing with this a few months ago, but I can't find it (is there something wrong with the search mechanism on the forum?).  Kind of a tough workaround, but some samples are provided.
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and smaller clefs, some in the middle of beamed groups of notes.
I've always done this as text [muted visual staff/hidden aural staff] as mentioned in a current thread.
 
HTH
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General Discussion / Re: clef positions
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for courtesy clefs you can just grab a clef from the NWC2 standard font and stick it in as a text expression.
The vertical positioning is not correct, though, no matter how it's sized.
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General Discussion / Re: outside opinion
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an 1000-measure rest.  (Haven't come across many of those, but there must be some.)
Beethoven, Symphony Nr.9 - Trombones I & II enter in m.603...of mvmt.IV - that's a lot of "resting"...
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General Discussion / Re: Trills
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Verdana font doesn't have an appropriate character for a natural sign, and the NWCV15 font doesn't seem to display correctly as superscript.
You'd think that in a forum discussing music notation, we'd be able to use d, e, f, g, and h without fudging it...
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General Discussion / Re: Flag groupings for simplified reading
Quote from: Michael W. Powell –
...it would be nice if NWC2 did this natively as opposed to having to use a workaround.
Exactly.  Having to use layering is okay in a score, but for parts, it just won't do.
Layering causes a "left barline" that simply does not belong there.
A single staff should never begin with a barline.
Essential Dictionary of Music Notation - Tom Gerou and Linda Lusk, Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. (p56)
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General Discussion / Re: Beta 2.19 <Ctrl-Z> returns to start of staff after changing font
It's been that way for as long as I can remember.
Usually before fooling with fonts, I'll place a random object where I want to be so that after I'm sent home against my wishes I press <Ctrl-Z> twice, I'll return to where I was.  Obviously this isn't the best way to handle it, but it has saved time and energy in the past.
The point is, I would love for this behavior to be corrected!
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Sometimes they reset the cursor, other times they don't.
I think if the Fonts tab is the active one when first opened it won't misbehave, but if you have to switch to Fonts from something else, say Contents, that's when it's naughty.
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General Discussion / Re: "This file was not properly saved"
An issue that somewhat relates to this one is something that happened after I switched to Vista.

I had to print a few orchestra parts one day for a performance that evening. 
My printer was not yet connected (no cable came with it, was waiting for one to be shipped), so I had to take the NWC files to my son's computer to print them. 
I opened the appropriate folders - nowhere to be seen!  I did a search - nowhere to be found! 
I re-opened NWC and the files were intact. 
After doing an advanced search (forcing many options), I found them here:  C:\Users\WhateverYourIdentityIs\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\NoteWorthy Composer\FileFolderName
instead of here:  C:\Program Files\NoteWorthy Composer\FileFolderName
Don't know why Vista has to do this...
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Version 1.75 Discussion / Re: labeling "right hand" and "left hand" simply as "piano"
'T was brillig, and the slithy toves...
Quote from: Peter Edwards –
Carroll was pretty consistent with his scansion and it would give a nine syllable second line whereas all the others are eight.
The scansion yields 8, 8, 8, 6 (three lines of iambic tetrameter, 1 line of iambic trimeter) for each stanza, but the 1st stanza ends with an irregular line (And the mome raths outgrabe.), and the line that ends the 2nd stanza contains an awk-word ("frumious" needs to be pronounced as 2 syllables).

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General Discussion / Re: V 2.17 Beta Observation: Suggested Additions
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I am unaware of any common fonts with the italicised rectangle as a glyph.
I have one that I have created, but when the *Dings Suite was released, I stopped tweaking it (I was gonna post it for general use, but you beat me to it with your font set.).
The glyph in question can also be found in the Inkpen2 suite, after which I modelled my suite.

Gotta go - dinner's on the table!
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General Discussion / Re: Trills
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K.A.T. is talking about definition 2.
Yes, thanks for pointing that out, Lawrie.
I had forgotten about definition 1 at the time of the posting, things being as hectic as they are lately...

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General Discussion / Re: Help me identify this song
Beethoven
Symphony Nr.7 in A Major, Op.92
Mvmt I [Vivace]
The movement starts Poco sostenuto, but your example is the next section (m.63).

(All of the horn players in my orchestra love this piece.)
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General Discussion / Re: 1812 Overture
Wow, this thread had been frozen for nearly three years (and by frozen I mean that no more replies were being accepted).
Glad to see it's thawed.
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General Discussion / Re: Trills
Quote from: John Mahony –
...the trilled note is...not the next note of the scale.
That would make it a tremolo, which is a whole 'nother kettle o' fish notationallywise speaking.
I am not at my computer right now, otherwise I'd attach an example of how to accomplish it. 
During the meanwhile, you may want to search the forum for "tremolo."
[It is possible but much more difficult in Version 1.  Version 2 is a piece of cake.]
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Version 1.75 Discussion / Re: labeling "right hand" and "left hand" simply as "piano"
Quote from: Lawrie Pardy –
...you need to adjust the staff upper and lower "Vertical Size" to 1. 

'tis also necessary to fill the staff with hidden whole rests so that the barlines will be continuous
You are correct, sir.
I guess I assumed all of you could read my mind on those points.  ;-)

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but can you still put a brace around it?
Yes, you can.  Simply leave the middle staff as Standard.

You will also need to add a clef to the middle staff so that you don't end up with a strange gap before the other clefs.  This clef will need to be highlighted white.

If I've forgotten anything else, just read my mind.  :-P
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Version 1.75 Discussion / Re: labeling "right hand" and "left hand" simply as "piano"
Lawrie's reply is pretty much what you need:
Quote from: Lawrie Pardy –
...you could create staff names using <Alt-0160> (no break space characters) - a different number of them for each hand - in order for the space required to be created, and then place a text entry in the appropriate place...
except I don't use a text entry anymore.  A while back, someone here (can't remember just now, and don't have time to do a search...) showed how to do this differently.  Add a third staff named Piano, placed between the two normal staves.  The third staff should have Lines: 0.

HTH
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General Discussion / Re: Multiple Instruments in One Staff
Okay, so this is not a solution to the original post, but it is possible to have two (or more) instruments on one staff.
[This is not something I normally do, but the technique has come in handy at times...]
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General Discussion / Re: swinging notes
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I wouldn't have the patience to work it all out like that. 
Patience is my middle name ["A" stands for "Patience?"] 
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Well done.
Thank you.
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General Discussion / Re: swinging notes
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this method is easy and does work well. thanks guys.
You're welcome!
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is there a way to make sixteenths play evenly? if the tempo is changed to make the sixteenths play evenly then the whole score stops swinging. is there a way to make it so that the soloist or melody plays even sixteenths while the rhythm section still swings?

Normally, I straighten whatever beat(s) require it and change the rhythm section to triplets (as per David Palmquist's reply), but I had one chart with the Tenor playing 4 choruses so I couldn't effectively change tempo and all the accompanying tracks.  I really wanted to have evenly-played sixteenths, so here is what I came up with (mind you, this is only an approximation, but it sounds pretty close [LOOKS HORRIBLE!  FOR HIDDEN STAFF ONLY!]):
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General Discussion / Re: getting ride of title space
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...erase errors (like the left over marks when cancelling  part of a key signature to make a change, since you can't select blanks from NWC's custom key signature menu),
You can insert a key signature of C Major set to Visibility: Never just before the new signature.
Cancellations are not an error, but their use is considered no longer necessary (unless the new signature has no sharps or flats).
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General Discussion / Re: 2007 Software Review Notation Pragrams
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... you'd run into the playback problem of displaying highlights on the words on the correct verse and only correct verse's lyrics ...
It can be accomplished using (hidden) local repeats, creatively arranged.
I'm not at home right now so I can't create an example to attach, but others might want to give it a try.
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General Discussion / Re: Workflow recommendations?
Quote from: Lawrie Pardy –
Lose the mouse!  Without doubt, the fastest way to enter music in NWC is to use the keyboard.

Then while looking at the source, NOT the screen I move the cursor up and down by counting lines and spaces...
...go back and check to see where I miscounted...
...The final check is playback while reading the original chart.
I totally agree with Lawrie,  My wife works with the mouse a lot and she takes about 3-4 times as long to do an octavo as I do. 
When I am doing big band charts, I enter all of the information (notes, dynamics, articulations, text items, etc.) on the Alto I staff and copy it to the Alto II staff.  I then select the entire staff (unless there's some unison figure somewhere) and drag it down two notches.  Then I paste the Alto I part onto the Tenor I and Bari staves and the Alto II part onto the Tenor II staff.  Naturally there are a few wrong notes (but not as many as you might think), so I adjust those where needed.  The same basic procedure works for the Trumpet and Trombone sections.  I usually copy the Trumpet I part to the Trombone IV part and then work my way up through the Trombone section (less dragging...).
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General Discussion / Re: Sound sucks on Vista or is it something else?
It’s not so much Vista’s fault (although I’m NOT happy with Vista so far...) as it is the sound card you were given.  I told my sales guy that I have to have the best sound because I’m a musician, but my music sounds less good than on my previous system.  I had a SBLive! before - don’t know what I have now (he just put all of the boxes directly from the shelves to the cart).  Gonna have to get the Geek Squad over here to put in a better soundcard...
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General Discussion / Re: wish list - radio buttons
I've used some programs in which radio buttons could be used only with the mouse.  I hate this.  If the radio buttons could be activated with the keyboard, then that would be fine.  I do not like being forced into using the mouse (Can you say "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?").
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User Tools / Re: Inversion?
I also remember reading about an Inversion tool but I have not found it (or any evidence of it) anywhere.  Maybe someone was thinking of creating one but hasn't completed it yet.  I have not found any evidence of that thread either...
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General Discussion / Re: NWC Viewer limitation
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Being able to start and start the Player/Viewer anywhere would be great.
Especially when the telephone rings at 22:13 in a 25:44 piece of music.
Or "What was that note?!??!  What just happened?!?!!  I need to hear that again!"
Or when one of the kids comes in with "Dad, I need..."
Or when the doorbell rings.
Or...

[Okay, I usually use NWC, so none of these things is a problem.  But whenever I choose NWP, that's what happens.  And most of my bandmates use NWP {still trying to get them to buy NWC...}]
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General Discussion / Re: Possible bug: Page numbers
Glad I could help.
I also got NWC way back in 1998 (or '97?), when I used to have time to explore programs thoroughly.  I used to click away just to see what was included in the programs I had.  I read through the entire Help file, and the wonderful Command Summary when that was released.
Wish I could have time like that again...
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General Discussion / Re: Backwards Searching
As far as I know, this is not possible.
It was discussed when the search feature was introduced, but nothing seems to have come from it.
This past week saw a great need for backward searching on my part...
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General Discussion / Re: Various suggestions
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That's a bit presumptious of you.
Well, yes, it is.  I presumed the key changes from Eb major to C# Major because the
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chord progression Ab G#7 C#
implies Major if minor is not stated.  I don't know the piece in question so I had to presume.  If minor had been specified, my reply would have read differently, but I'm still sure there is a clearer way to notate the passage. 
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There is a genuine need for enharmonic spellings and to argue that just because people personally can't see the use for them is not a valid reason to suppress them for everyone else. 
I totally agree.
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Presumably in a similar vein you'd like to suppress double sharps and flats too!
Don't presume that.  I use x and bb more than anyone else I know.  Even in jazz charts.  My bandmates usually (always?) need to ask "What's that thing in front of the C in bar 33?"  I use them to make the music look the way it sounds.