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Delete should have worked, then. You want the Delete key below Insert on the keyboard, not Del in the keypad. If it's a laptop, then who knows.

The Delete key will work if you select all the staves vertically, the so-call "stack."

Looks like JW Grace Note Slash uses the document setting Grace Note Slash Thickness. The one above looked too thin. Here I've set it thicker to demonstrate. If you'd like to keep it thin for single grace notes, you can set it back after running the plug-in.

The JW Grace Note Slash plug-in will do it, but Peter's way gives you more control over the look.

No, I use Speedy. As I said, I don't usually look at the screen, so I live with it.

If you hit Esc, you'll leave the Speedy Entry tool and the measure will be respaced, then you can go back. Not ideal, I know. You probably want to turn off "fill with rests at end of measure" in that case.

This thread details the best I could come up with for articulations. It will place the top correctly; you then need to adjust the bottom.
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Go to your Windows settings and see what printers are installed. If there's no print-to-PDF print, you'll have to download and add one. There are several free ones, including one from Microsoft. I use CutePDF.

apkyburz wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:29 am

motet wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:33 am

If you can enter the music in Scroll View, I think that doesn't happen.

No, the behavior is the same.

You are right. I guess I don't tend to look at the screen when I'm entering music. Simple entry does seem to adjust as you go along. Alas, I suspect this is unlikely to ever be fixed.

Looks like you can't anyway! I was going to suggest using the copy filter to propagate the manual adjustment, but if you switch to layer 2 to extend the beams, then they show up already extended. Extending them further doesn't see to work. Personally, I don't like the look of beams extended over res...

But you can likely fix it by hand with the beam extension tool.

If you can enter the music in Scroll View, I think that doesn't happen.

I'm sorry I offended you, but if the question is "Why are my coloured notes coming out black and white?", then of course ask here. But if the question is "what is PDF Creator?", Googling will give you your answer much quicker, and, if it seems to be what you want, you can download it and be on your ...

Right--this is not a unison. You could flip the 16th stems, or manually move the whole note.

If you want something like this then set the Music Spacing option: Avoid collision of unisons: All noteheads

Human Playback, I suspect. Is there a fermata before the repeat, by any chance?

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If you're using the copy filter, make sure Chords and Fretboards is checked.

In this case, I need to use an annoyingly sib-like workflow: Speedy, ctl 3, enter first pitch as whole note, change duration to half, proceed... Doesn't seem like much of an annoyance. Make sure the Speedy option "Insert notes or rests" is unchecked, then, after entering your whole note, press left...

You didn't answer my question in the redundant topic, so I'll post here. If it's really a tuplet of three whole notes you want, then in Speedy entry, press Ctrl-3 (for a triplet), then enter three whole notes. That's the standard way of entering a tuplet in Speedy and that's all there is to it. For ...

Three whole notes in the space of? Time signature?

The manual, in fact, lists the predefined metatools.

Maybe that's better than the multi-step way I tried.

This is easy with Finale, but I don't know about Songwriter; perhaps someone else will. If not, you might consider upgrading.

Looks like the file is in the right place. So now you just need to unpack it from the zip file by double-clicking.

It's supposed to work, but why not just try it?