Coloring Beamed Highlighted Notes

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Coloring Beamed Highlighted Notes

2007-10-07 09:33 am

Working on something in which I am highlighting notes to do with patterns, I noticed that only the notes and stems of beamed notes change color (not the beam). When unbeamed, the color of the flag is the same, however.
It is the same in NWC1.75

I'm not sure whether this is the best way to do things, are there other opinions?

Re: Coloring Beamed Highlighted Notes

Reply #1 – 2007-10-07 10:09 am

If you are refering to playback, the stems attached to beams aren't highlighted either.

Outside of playback, beams are in the Staff color. Since beams are associated with more than one note, it is difficult to see where the program could get color info. It mght default to the note color if all the notes in the group are the same color.

Far down on my priority list ...

Re: Coloring Beamed Highlighted Notes

Reply #2 – 2007-10-07 10:32 am

Agreed, though the beam could be split.
About the priority list, I realize that it's pretty unimportant, it's just that it might be easy to fix.

Re: Coloring Beamed Highlighted Notes

Reply #3 – 2007-10-07 11:15 am

If you need the beams colored in the printout, try the technique in the attached file.

Re: Coloring Beamed Highlighted Notes

Reply #4 – 2007-10-07 03:41 pm

Splitting the beam into different colors wouldn't be easy, as the beams are drawn as single lines from the first note stem to the last note stem in the beamed group. The other stems are then drawn to the beam(s). Using layers, as Rick suggests, may prove to be a workable alternative in most cases, although it might still be tricky to split the beam. I realize we haven't been much help....