The thing to remember when you are using two parts per staff is that when you have two notes of different durations at the same position (like the dotted quarter stem up and plain quarter stem down), the duration that is reserved for that position is that of the shorter note. NWC created the "rest chord" as a way of dealing with this. A rest chord is basically a split chord where one of the two notes is a rest. Also, in a rest chord, the rest duration must be less than or equal to the note duration (i.e. you can't have a half rest and a quarter note.) So for your example, I change the lone quarter note to a rest chord with an eighth rest, which "steals" an eighth duration from the first two notes, so that the total duration is now 3 eighth beats, and the parts line up again.
You'll notice that the rest is shown greyed out. That is because a rest chord has an option of hiding the rest in the printout, since you don't always want to see them.
Last post by Mike Shawaluk -
I'm pretty sure Lawrie is spot on with this one. It sounds like you might have mixed or overlapping chords with different durations, which means you need to make one of the notes a rest chord. But it would really help to see a copy of the sheet music you are trying to enter.
Last post by Lawrie Pardy -
Hi Andrew, we could probably use a little more context: 3 minims is 6 beats, but a dotted minim plus 3 quavers is 4 1/2 beats.
Do we assume it's a 6/4, or maybe a 3/2 bar? How do the quavers line up with the minims below?
Have you learned how to make chords and rest-chords? Or perhaps it might be best approached with layered staves.
Last post by AndyL -
Sorry, not very descriptive - but best I could come up with. The problem I have is I have a bar with: [Stems Up] Dotted Minim, quaver, quaver, quaver. [Stems Down] Minim, Minim, Minim
No mattwer what I try - the beat count in the bar is wrong. Adds a quaver. Yes, there are 'ways round' this with tied notes - but is there a more elegant way?
Last post by Flurmy -
I often do similar things and I never had any problem. Hint: do you change the "page style" name for each different PageText? I usually have them named "subtitle", "page number", "instrument" etc.
Last post by David Palmquist -
Back to the original subject of this thread - PageTxtMaestro.nw and PageTxt.nw. I thought I had mastered these a while back, but this week I can't accomplish what I need.
I am transposing instrument parts. I will only print the transposed parts, so the results are just single system, multi-page charts.
I want to show the Title, Lyricist (I use this box for the instrument name) and Composer/Arranger on the first page. If I suppress the file information I should be able to use PageTxt for this, or if I don't suppress the file info, PageTxt should be able to be set to show on the second and later pages only.
On printed pages 2 and 3, I want to show Title at the centre of the top of the page, and at the left margin, Lyricist (for the name of the instrument) either on the same line or a second line.
PageTxtMaestro is in the score before the first bar. PageTxt, with either "%Title%" or the written-out title is next. If 2 font sizes could be used in the "Text" field, I would type in "Title" %br% and "instrument name." The instrument name would appear on a second line:
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My Horrible Train Wreck Bass Saxophone Page 2
Alternatively, to get a second font size for the intrument name, I type it into a second instance of PageTxt, left justified at the top of the page. Ideally, the result will be the top of the second and later pages showing
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Bass SaxophoneMy Horrible Train Wreck Page 2
If PageTxt PageTXT come before bar 1, they (should) display on all pages. To skip the first page, I can move them somewhere after bar 1 but before the last bar of page 1. Doing that means they should appear just on page 2 and later pages. That works ...sort of.
No matter how much I tinker with them, the second PageTxt prevents the first PageTxt from displaying.
Why?
Other things:
I've searched this thread, and couldn't find whatPage Style Custom 1means, if it can be changed, how, and why might I want to?
Similarly, Page Display Contol has <default>, Even Pages, Odd Pages, No Mirroring and Once. It would be nice if another choice was available, "second and later pages." Then it wouldn't matter if PageTxt appeared after or before bar 1.
