A couple of queries with a piece I'd like to finish today:
1. How do I get a special ending to stretch over two bars?
2. In the first of two adjacent bars, I have a special ending 1 (no problems with that), but in the second bar I have an un-numbered ending which appears to be a mirror image of the usual special ending.
Any ideas?
G'day linlin,
For the first problem may I refer you to this discussion:
https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=5715.0
For the second, I'm not quite sure what you mean... Perhaps it is simply the final ending and the engraver has thus left it unnumbered...?
Hi Lawrie
Thanks for your help. I've recently installed an imaging programme which had a lot of fonts (unfortunately not the ones required for the special endings) and this caused a huge problem on my computer. For the moment, I'm reluctant to download any other fonts just in case. I'll give it a try in a week or so when I've completed work on a project which needs the imaging programme.
Thanks again
I still haven't resolved the special endings and wonder if there's any other way to go about it.
The music is 58 bars long. Bars 1 - 8 are sung once, at the beginning, so bar line 8/9 is a local repeat open. Then bar 9 to 32 are sung (bars 31 and 32 are only for the first verse)so bar line 32/33 is a local repeat close and the song goes back to bar 9.
All that plays okay. The problem arises from the 2nd verse....starting bar 9 - which should then stop at the end of bar 30 and skip to bar 33 when it should then play right through to bar 58.
I have put special ending 1 in bars 31 and 32 - that seems to have no effect at all as those bars are played again during the second verse, followed by bar 33 and onwards....
I then put a special ending 2 in bar 33 - that has two effects: it only plays to bar 32 then stops; and ties appear for the first notes in bar 33.
Can anyone help?
G'day linlin,
special endings do not work with local repeats. For special endings to work you need to use master repeat open and close.
so...
clef, key, 4/4....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....||:....|....|.... etc to bar 30 ....|se1.:||se2.||....| etc. to bar 58 ||
all the repeats are master repeats.
Hope this is what you're looking for.
Morning Lawrie
Thanks for coming to my aid (again).
I have put special ending 2 in bar 33 and replaced the local repeat close in bar 32/33 with a master repeat close. Now it seems to completely ignore the repeat and plays bars 31 and 32 then straight onto bar 33...and on.
So I'm still doing something wrong......
G'day linlin,
did you replace the local repeat open at bar 8/9 with a master repeat open?