Last post by fathafluff -
I recently wanted a bar number at the start of each staff. I inserted BarCounter.hmm at the beginning of the staff with Pos: 7; Starting bar number: 1; Hide starting bar number checked; Every n-th bar: 0. In what would become the fifth staff line I wanted to number ten bars 1-10. I added another BarCounter.hmm with Pos: -8.5; Starting bar number: 1; Every n-th bar: 1; Excluded bars: 11-999. The bars were numbered as expected, but the original entry was cancelled, so there were no more bar numbers at the start of the rest of the staves. The only way I could get all staff lines numbered was to replace the first entry with BarCounter.nw. So I would say they do work together. Improvement to .hmm that would be nice: Allow Every n-th bar: 1 to not cancel Every n-th bar: 0. Another improvement I would like: If Every n-th bar was not 0, provide an option to move the bar number a distance to the right (or left, though I'm not sure that would ever be needed) of the bar line, or to the first note or rest in the bar. Or to print the number in the middle of the measure, but I suspect that calculation would be difficult or impossible.
A B C D Coda Verse 1 x x x Verse 2 x x x Verse 3 x x x Verse 4 x x x
An "ending" that contains the number N. is, in NWC, actually not an ending, but a "play marker" that says "play this on the Nth repetition". As each verse is a repetition, I simply(?) put in markers according to this table: A plays in repetitions 1 and 4; B plays in repetitions 1, 2, 3, and 4; etc.
Last post by lawrroc -
After much observation of Harlad Müller's nwctxt, whom I thank again, I figured out the trick of the notes in parentheses and the eighth-note rests on quarter notes. I had changed the time signature to 7/8 by muting the extra note, but it didn't work. So far, okay. Now I just have to discover the entire architecture of the choruses 1.4, 2.3, etc. It's always useful to periodically browse the forum; you always discover something interesting. Have a good week everyone. Lorenzo
I put the barcounter.nw at the very beginning and then barcounter.hmm where I wanted the change. Just like PageTxt and PageTxtMaestro.
Well, they are alternative, with barcounter.hmm being more advanced (more options). It's not a good idea to mix them. As far as I know (I didn't try), they are not compatible.
Maybe Noel was referring to "BarCounter.nw" and "BarCounter.hmm", even if I don't see why they shouldn't both work as expected.
Yes. I put the barcounter.nw at the very beginning and then barcounter.hmm where I wanted the change. Just like PageTxt and PageTxtMaestro. But it did not give me the desired results.
Last post by fathafluff -
If I insert text at the beginning of the first staff (before the clef or signatures) with left alignment, it shows up aligned with the left edge of the staff. If I have a later bar with force system break, and add text immediately following the bar, the text aligns after the (automatically inserted) clef. Is there an easy way to get it to align with the left edge of the staff? I can change the text alignment to center or right, and insert spaces before or after the text, but the spacing amount is very trial and error, depending on the width of the text. I just discovered that I can insert another clef after the system breaking bar, and that seems to work, but is that the only way?
Sligltly off topic: years ago I saw many scores in which there were the instructions (in Italian) "from (the glyph for Segno) to (the glyph for Coda) then follows", but lately I see only, as per NWC, the glyph for Segno, the indication "To Coda", the command "D.S. al Coda" and the gliph and text "Coda". Was it an old way that became obsolete or a "local only" (Italian) use?
Last post by lawrroc -
Thank you so much, my friend Harald! Your message catches me while I've been (super)busy for several hours transcribing this "very complicated score." Yours, which I'll study carefully, shows the hand of a professional! I'm not even familiar with some of the solutions you proposed. In the measures with the eighth note in parentheses, which increases the tempo by 1/8, I had initially considered changing the tempo for that measure to 7/8, but then the "rhythm" of the singing (which I've heard many times on YouTube from different choirs) was altered in an unfeasible way. I'll study your solution for this too. Now I want to finish my work. I've decided to transcribe the ENTIRE score from beginning to end as if there were no refrains. In practice, I've gone from 20 measures to 48! It's too complicated and difficult for me to work on the refrains. Then I'll work on the graphic aspect. Thanks.
Last post by hmmueller -
Here is my raw version. I actually don't see that this is really complicated - just tell NWC which parts to play on which repetition, and that's it - unless I have overlooked something. To check the appearance and the playing, open it in NWC Viewer - as far as I can see, it does what is described in Lorenzo's scan.
One special trick is in m.10, to play the parenthesized eighth only in the fourth verse: The preceding quarter is below an eighth rest, and in verses 1 to 3, this is followed by another eighth rest - thus, in these verses, the eighth note is not playing. In verse 4, however, the second eighth rest is bypassed, and instead the second eighth note is played/highlighted. I put in a tempo=30 so that when playing the score in NWC Viewer, one can follow the sequence of these events. This "machinery" would have to be copied to all parenthesized notes.
Of course, lots of formatting (layering of staves, direction of stems and ties, some beams, lots of additional text and its formatting) has to be done. As part of the lyrics is above the staves, it might even be necessary to add additional staves like "Tenor 1 UpperLyrics" and "Tenor 2 UpperLyrics" - but that's just menial work.
In more complicated lyrics cases, where part of the lyrics is reused in multiple verses, it might be helpful to have completely separate lyrics parts (with invisible rests with "Lyrics Always") where one can put the lyrics of one verse on different heights at different places of the piece; maybe one would call these staves something like VERSE1_HEIGHT1, VERSE1_HEIGHT2, VERSE2_HEIGHT2 etc.
Fun exercise, Lorenzo . @All, let me know what I overlooked !
. @All, let me know what I overlooked 
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