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two questions about beaming

Someone asked me if I could make him a copy of the first
movement of one of the Brandenburgs ready for a music
weekend. I set to quite happily, but came across two
problems with beaming:

* Two quavers (eighth notes) beamed together; I use the
Text command to add tr above the first and voilà! two
quavers unbeamed

* Sometimes there is a divisi section, where I need two
sets of quavers (for the two parts) in the same bar. No
matter how I play with stems up/stems down, beaming one
set unbeams the other

Are there workarounds for these? Thanks in advance for
any hints and tips.

Re: two questions about beaming

Reply #1 –
1: You are putting the text in after the first quaver rather than before. Make sure any text you put in is before any beamed notes, or it will break the beams.

2: The only way you can have 2 lots of beamed quavers on the same stave is to have 2 staves, and use the layer file to layer the first staff over the second. If you have version 1.52a you can get a program to activate the layer command, or if you have an earlier version, you can get the layer file from http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/composer/usertip2.htm#layer and this will give you a layer file to work with.
Adam

Re: two questions about beaming

Reply #2 –
Sorry, the program you can get is in the newsgroup, and you must have version 1.5 or later to use the layer file mentioned above.
Adam

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Reply #3 –
I think that you can beam 2 sets of quavers at the same time.
You should normally do this entering all the notes (as chords), then beaming all together.

HTH.

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Reply #4 –
I don't think marsu's suggestion will work when you have stem up and stem down notes present. I've never managed to get both sets beamed anyway.

Re: two questions about beaming

Reply #5 –
Joy, you're right.
In fact the beam is on the side the icon tells (stem down => beam down, and vice-versa)
Maybe this may be considered as a bug ? But then how to tell NWC to beam _only_ the stem-down notes for instance ?
One way of doing this could be that the Stem Up/Down could be de-activated, then beaming would appear on both side (or none of course) ?

Otherwise, a good solution is to use the Underlying staff feature.
But --there we need NWC support answer-- will this experimental feature be kept in next release ?? I know many of advanced users use it, what a loss if not kept !!

NWCly yours,

                              MAD