Accidental alignment

1998-06-09 04:00 am

In commercially printed music, sharp/flat/natural symbols
are placed ahead of a note, in the "open space" after the
last note: and the notes themselves are placed the same
way regardless of whether there are intervening accidental
symbols. This makes the file slightly more compact, and,
I think, "looks better." Is this a possible enhancement?

Re: Accidental alignment

Reply #1 – 1998-06-10 04:00 am

As some other people already said, you could add this kinda topic in the wish list (https://noteworthycomposer.com/composer/wishlist.htm)..)
And if you REALLY want to gain space, use the Copy option in the Previez window and use Xpress or so.
If you really want to have to place yourself each item, use SCORE (a dos program that allows you whatever you want but you have to manage it, but it also has a powerful macro engine in it). Two years ago, some people were talking about a W95 version soon...;-)

More seriously, in commercially printed music, the engravers have the BAD habit to compress some sequences not regarding their duration (respecting the vertical alignment though, of course) and this can result into hard-to-read sheets. I usually prefer small efficient programs (such as NWC ;-)), but sometimes smallness is against comfort... Never forget the final user, the customer :
- As a reader, I don't care if my booklet has 64 or 68 pages.
- That's not my problem.
- But i higly prefer that the score be readable, thanks to 4 more pages out of 68...

NWCly,
MAD