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Long measures

When dealing with a lot of 64th, usually the measures tend to become quite long.

NWC is Procustean: it simply truncates them!

You must be very careful for, sometimes, even passing to the landscape paper orientation is not enough.
The risk is to be forced to print in a very small size, difficult to read.

The solution is to insert by hand some bar lines hidden and bar-count excluded.
But that's very tedious!

The same comes with (long) text.
It would be a good idea to add some form of automatic wrapping.

Re: Long measures

Reply #1 –
I would simply use spacers to reduce the space between notes...
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Re: Long measures

Reply #2 –
In my case the measure is by far too long to resort to that trick.
A measure is easily two rows long!

Re: Long measures

Reply #3 –
Would inserting an invisible, exclude from count bar line help?
Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.5,Single)
|PerformanceStyle|Style:Legato|Pos:0|Visibility:Never
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Key|Signature:F#|Tonic:G
|TimeSig|Signature:6/8
|Tempo|Tempo:60|Pos:10
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-4
|Bar
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|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:-4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:-7|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:-4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Bar|XBarCnt:Y|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:-2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:-5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:-2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
Since 1998

Re: Long measures

Reply #4 –
As I wrote:
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The solution is to insert by hand some bar lines hidden and bar-count excluded.

Yes, it works, but you must insert it by hand and must be done in all the staves.