How do I edit members of an existing chord?

After I create a chord, is there any way to change the members in the chord without rebuilding the chord? I just want to change one note from A# to A natural.

You can selectively remove chord members by pressing Ctrl+Backspace while the insertion point is immediately to the right of the target chard member. The Ctrl+Backspace command essentially performs the reverse operation from the Ctrl+Enter command.

You can find other useful keystrokes in the help file, section Keyboard Guide.

Regards, Support Staff

The given solution is only partial. There should actually be something like "vertical selection" in addition to the existing horizontal selection possibility.

I recently download NWC as an evaluation. It works great but I wonder how can I add accompaniment over the staves. I mean something like A, Dm, F, B etc.

Thanks in advance.

Antoine

Chords can be added as text at a point above the staff.
They need to be placed just ahead of a note with the preserve width attribute off.
It may be necessary to add some padding with spaces before the text to align the chord with the note.
Use # and b for sharps and flats.

I too am evaluating NoteWorthy. How can I modify an inserted text? I'm not more able to select it.
Thanks for your attention
Marco Losavio

You should be able to select the text simply by moving the cursor to the left or right of the text insertion point and typing <Shift><right-arrow> or <Shift><left-arrow> respectively. Once the text is selected you can delete using <Delete>.

If you want simply to delete without selecting, move the cursor to the left or right of the text insertion point and type <Delete> or <Backspace> respectively.

If you have Preserved Width OFF then you have to select the small diamond symbol representing the insertion point.
Grant's tip above is the easiest way to select the symbol.

hey is there a way, when importing midis, change all of the midi triplets to noteworthy triplets

Triplets are imported incorrectly, but consistently. They can be fixed using keyboard macros. See Helpful in the Noteworthy Scriptorium.

When I want to import midi file with the lastest versin of NoteWorthy, what do should I do to do that ???

File --> Open --> select a midi file. The new version is smart enough to know that you want to import it, and you're taken through the import dialog.

I have a question for everyone...if anyone is in here. How do you create a trill on the shareware version of Note Worthy Composer???

Thank you

It's the same in any version:

1) for the look of a trill, use the Boxmarks font available from the Scriptorium (www.vadu.com/nwc)

2) for the sound of a trill, write out all the little notes. Copy & paste can be helpful here.

3) for both, create a visible but muted staff that looks right and an audible but hidden staff that sounds right.

Interesting chat, in here! I use Noteworthy Composer for professional use (yes, I'm registered!) and it works great! As easy to use as a text editor! My only problem comes when I get to print my stuff, and most characters I cheat with (Staccatos, trills, multiple bar rests, etc), I have to re-edit them all the time and it eats in my schedule - takes too much time! Now what I'd REALLY need is functions, not fonts! Now, Mr. SysOp, will there be any improvements in that direction in future upgrades?

I mentioned this once before, but it's worth mentioning again:

A Windows metafile from NWC (File>Print Preview>Copy to file)can be opened and edited in some drawing programs. This is great for fine-tuning the appearance of sheet music to be printed. Of course, it does nothing whatever to the "sound" music.

I realize that's not the same as editing within NWC, but I have a couple of expensive programs to compare it to, and neither of them is very useful for within-program appearance editing.

Yes, and by the way - to all users - Metafiles are great when you have to send files to someone - as long as he has the Noteworthy font on his computer! (Question marks in my head concerning copyrights...)

As to the appearance of the charts, with all the add-ons and fonts in the User's Help section, it's great! Although I might suggest - for those fonts - to add a couple more characters which might be useful to the pop-jazz domain of writing! Noteworthy's real close to entering in the big competitive market alongside the ones mainly used in the big music schools! Its interface - as I mentioned earlier - which is more reminiscent of a text editor makes it a MUCH EASIER program to use that the others...

But I can't help but mention that functions will always have a step over fonts! Especially when it comes to printing your pages and the adjusting of text characters take time...

I just need to insert rests into chords. Any tips?

Can't be done, AFAIK. You can insert chords into rests, though, as long as the chord's duration is longer than the rest's.

The general all-purpose way to get around these limitations is to insert the rest as a text item in the NWCV15 font. Set one of the User fonts (in File/Page Setup/Fonts) to NWCV15. The appropriate font size for NWCV15 varies with the staff point size (in File/Page Setup/Options); for a staff size of 16 it looks like a font size of 20 is about right. When you insert the text item, set the Display Font to the one you mapped NWCV15 to (e.g., User 1); rests are mapped to the characters "lmnopqr", starting with the whole rest. "z" maps to a dot.