Re: What NWC 2 SHOULD HAVE!
Reply #6 –
G'day again klerg,
Beaming: I won't go into a full on lesson here, but basically you have 2 staves, one voice is on the top staff with all stems up, the second voice is on the next staff with all stems down.
Beam each staff as appropriate. On the first staff, go to its properties and on the "Visual" tab select "Layer with next staff". From the "View" menu, select "Allow layering".
The result is that the 2 staves now overlay each other and your beamed notes work correctly.
Forced barlines: Mate, just work with the product for a while. You will very quickly come to appreciate the lack of this feature. Actually, if you want an editing comparison, download Finale Notepad (it's a freebie) and try to create a work in it, and then the same work in NWC - you will soon realise just how superior the NWC user interface is! Especially if you're trying to enter several voices.
As for accidentals (natural), unless you're editing text, they're available on the tool bar. If you want access to accidentals as text, you can use the NVCV15.TTF for NWC1.75 or the NWC2STDA.TTF for NWC2. You can also download the Boxmark fonts from the scripto (see the front page for a link)
Lawrie