Re: Break for Coda
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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.
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