I'm a new NWC user, and have just installed NWC2 beta v2.14. It works great for me, but I'm stymied on one thing...how do you insert a white-space break leading to a Coda?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Barry
G'day Barry,
welcome to the world of NWC.
Now, as for your problem, it's done with smoke and mirrors ;)
NWC will not do this natively, however there are several techniques available that can help.
One method requires exporting from the |Print|Preview| screen to some form of DTP application and then editing the image/vector objects within that package.
The other one uses "Digital White out". This is the one I use (when I bother).
What I usually do is :
- force a system break to put the Coda on it's own line
- Add a bar that contains a rest and exclude it's barlines from the barline count (NWC2 only)
- Set a user font to WingDings at an appropriate size
- Choose but don't yet change to a highlight colour to be White (I generally use Highlight 7 for this - no reason, that's just the one I use)
- Insert text using the font set to wingdings and select the appropriate highlight - chosen above)
- use an appropriate character(s) to blank out the unwanted staff lines and whatever elements it may contain (clef's etc) - You may need several text objects with differing justification to get sufficient overlap to do this properly.
- Insert my Coda symbol and a clef and keysig (if necesssary) and continue creating my staff
- You NEED to use |Print|Preview| a lot when placing the blanking blocks as the editor window will not display the placement relationships correctly
- When satisifed change the highlight to white
I've attached a "BlankSpaceDemo" file in NWC2 format. In this case, It's a blanked system rather than just a "missing" bar - the principle is the same. - Leave highlight 7 at it's default to see the technique that's used, then change it to White to see the final result.
Wow-thanks for the fast response Lawrie. I will give your suggestion a try.
Barry
OK Lawrie-I've tried what you suggested with limited success. A couple of questions for you or the other gurus...
Should the length of the rest be equal to 1 bar?
Is there an easy way to hide the clef, key and time signature?
Barry
It must have some duration (a grace note/rest won't work). A whole measure rest will center itself in the bar. Anything else will not.
A way? Yes. The TimeSig doesn't show. Hide the Clef/KeySig by putting invisible items before the skipped line. Put visible items at the start of the next visible line. I'll let you judge its ease ...
Webdings "g" is a better whiteout character than Wingdings "n". It is sometimes better to put all this on a layer and keep it off screen while editing. Example attached.