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General Discussion / Re: Beats in a bar
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.
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General Discussion / Re: Beats in a bar
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.

Perhaps you could post an image of the source?
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General Discussion / Beats in a bar
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?

...or have I midded something obvious? :D

Thanks guys...
Andrew.
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Object Plugins / Re: PageTxtMaestro.nw
Last post by David Palmquist -
Thank you, Flurmy.  Thank you so very much.  That did the trick.

I never hought of replacing the text in the white box, I just clicked the box hoping a menu would open with choices.
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Object Plugins / Re: PageTxtMaestro.nw
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.
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Object Plugins / Re: PageTxtMaestro.nw
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:
Quote
                  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
Quote
Bass Saxophone                  My 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 what Page Style Custom 1 means, 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.
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General Discussion / Fonts.ini
Last post by Flurmy -
Fonts.ini is very good for having the fonts specific to NWC not cluttering the system font list.
Recently (...today) I had to add a font to NWC, so I added it manually to fonts.ini.
Does it exist in NWC an "official" (read: user friendly) procedure to add fonts to Fonts.ini?