NoteWorthy Composer Forum

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N.B. thank you, Mike, for your gentle offer.

Quote from: Lawrie Pardy – 2026-05-30 12:54 PM

My only objection to the headless, muted, stemless notes is that I make extensive use of the "CueHeads" object which functions on headless notes...

As the author of CueHeads.ms, I was thinking about this as well. In your usage of CueHeads, how often do the notes have zero-length stems?  The CueHeads object could have an option to exclude stemless (or mute) notes, so that it plays well with this tool.

My only objection to the headless, muted, stemless notes is that I make extensive use of the "CueHeads" object which functions on headless notes...

This tool converts rests or notes to beat slashes (a purely visual marker; see attached image).
In jazz and popular music, passages are often notated with slash noteheads that indicate no specific pitch and show no rhythm.
Depending on the content, this might indicate an improvised solo and accompaniment pattern to be devised by the player,
or a suggestion to continue in the style of previously notated passage.

The NWC rests, notes or chords are uninportant, provided that their durations are multiples of 1/4.
It uses the char '/' of MusicDingsSans or MusicDingsSerif with the same size of the standard NWC2STDA.
By default that font is assumed as font User 1, but a different User font (1..6) can be specified on the command line.
E.g., "scripts\fl_BeatSlashes.lua 3" to use User 3.

N.B. Instead of hidden rests up in the sky I preferred headless, muted, stemless 1/4 notes because in the editor you can actually see their presence.

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Quote from: Lawrie Pardy – 2026-05-29 03:58 AM

Quite often I need to enter comping marks - these are really just a slash in place of a crotchet (quarter note) rest.

Do you mean something like in the attached image?
Of course I can make it as an enhancement, but I see it quite different, hence deserving his own tool.
I was indeed wondering if creating it or not.
Stay tuned.

Quote from: Lawrie Pardy – 2026-05-29 03:58 AM

then I move the rest off the page with Global_mod.  The rest must be moved instead of being made invisible or it won't take up the necessary horizontal space.  Perhaps you could modify this tool to automate that process too (it would need to move the rest).

Yuk, I forgot that trick (and I was hoping it wasn't needed anymore...)!
I don't remember which was the usual value for the offset. Perhaps the maximum allowed. Maybe 25000?

I know I could highlight and use Global Mod to make these changes after the fact

there is any way to shorten the length of the slash and reposition it to reflect more of what one would see in a jazz chart?