I know this must sound crazy but I don't know the correct nomenclature. I want to use a note drawn with an x instead of the typical oblong dot at the top or bottom of the stems. I want to use it just to force the lyrics to show up under them.
The other thing I don't know what it's called either but it's a squiggly, vertical line that appears left of a chord telling the pianist to roll into the chord rather than hit it all at once.
Can someone help an amateur please?
Hey JB,
'x' noteheads can be selected from the toolbar, by pressing 'q' or from the "Notes" menu:
Just select the required notehead prior to placing the note(s) - the selection is persistent - you will need to manually change it back OR you can place the note(s), highlight them and then select the required notehead - done this way the notehead selection is not persistent.
To place the "Arpeggio" squiggly line you'll need a font that *contains such a character and place it as text. Depending on the vertical height of the required arpeggio you may need to place more than one symbol - just make sure they don't preserve width and are alligned identically. I usually use Righ justified at next note/bar and pad the right part of the expression with sufficient spaces to give a pleasing result.
There is a user tool that will create the sound part of the arpeggio with hidden grace notes (it's called "Arpeggiate (nwsw)" and can be found in the ".Starter Tools" user tool group)
*fonts that contain the squiggly line are Boxmark2, or any of my *Dings font suites which are available from the NWC site or the Helpful files section of the Scriptorium. Boxmark2 can be found on the scripto too.
... or you can use my version of that tool that takes care of both the visual and the sounding part of it.
https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=6046.0 (https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=6046.0)
N.B. it assumes that the font User 1 is one that contains the squiggly line.
Hi Flurmy,
thanks for cutting in, I thought there was a version that did that, but couldn't for the life of me remember who or when...