Hi all,
Beaming 8th with 16th or more is natural. But when printing, I would like to beam a 1/2 with 8th.
For example in a classical guitar arpeggio C Major chord having the 1/2 C and after the 1/8 E, 1/8 G, 1/8 C all beamed together.
Would it serve your purpose to insert 4 tied 1/8 (semiquaver) Cs, then insert the other 1/8 notes of the arpeggio as chord notes above these? You can then beam the whole group.
You can do to it with layered staffs and a hidden note. In the top staff write your half note. Set the staff properties (F2) to allow layering with next staff.
Create a second staff. Write your 8th notes, beam them, then make the first one invisible (Ctrl-E for note properties).
Now "allow layering" from the View Menu.
I say you CAN do it. I'm not sure you should. I am not familiar with guitar music notation, but it seems to me it is musically incorrect. I could be mistaken.
Try David's suggestion and see what happens.
If you use NWC2, you can have no notehead for the first note, add the open head as a text item, and avoid layering altogether.
I don't know the answer, but half way down
this web page are some old musical symbols:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/docs/dox/moresyms.html
Sorry, I replied to the wrong post :-(