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Copy / paste

It would be nice if it was possible to copy a certain number of beats in more than one staff at the same time and to paste them in a different position of the same staves.

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Reply #1 –
I agree - that would really be great!
Barry

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Reply #2 –
That's omething I miss too - being able to cut and paste a part of a whole system. An extension of that is to to be able to highlight a part of a system and have changes properties change across all the staves in it. For example I have been increasing note spacing and each stave has had to be opened, the note highlighted, properties changed etc... At least we can do it.

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Reply #3 –
This would be really nice. It's probably the main thing other NoteWorthy Composer users at my school talk about.

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Reply #4 –
This is something I'd like to see too, but NWC wasn't thought that way in the beginning.
Staves are very independent you know :)

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Reply #5 –
The staves may be independent, but a cut/paste option across staves would be no rocket science. This is the way I would like to see it implemented:
Copy Special -> pops up a menu like 'm' does, where you can select the staves where you want to go and copy (default = all)
Then, enter bar number begin + bar number end (FROM) and bar number to (TO), and Go.
Restrictions:
- Whole bars only
- Use at own risk. If bars are not aligned, haywire ensues.

But oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! I would chortle in my joy.
Rob.

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Reply #6 –
I suppose the term 'bar' is written in the sense of "measure".

Well, I'm not mouse-oriented, but for once I'd see it that way:
select (on one staff) the zone to be copied;
right-click, "copy this from all staves", then a paste would copy on all staves also.
Why not a staff selection list, good point you raise here :)
(otherwise one may wonder if applicable only on visible staves, or all... When you got some rhythmic staff with different repeats, that may lead to strange results)

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Reply #7 –
That's right: bar as in
'Young man. Don't you know this book has no redeeming social virtues?'
- 'No. Hum a few bars of it.' (A Fortran Coloring Book)

And you are very right: any staff that would not have the position to copy to (if the number of measures is too low)  would not be affected, even if marked in the proposed selection box.

Hi  Ho to the Wish List?

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Reply #8 –
And to give you heart...

Several items I placed on the wish list about 1995 have yet to be implemented.

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Reply #9 –
And many of the ideas I've submitted during the same period of time were implemented.
Some not (yet).
Let's be creative and innovative, then :)

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Reply #10 –
That would be very nice. Maybe having hot-keys to enable/disable.

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Reply #11 –
Did nobody spot the Jabberwocky in reply #5, or was it too off-topic to react to?

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Reply #13 –
Why Jabberwocky as a title, versus Jabberwock as the object of Beware?