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Zuill is right (of course). JW Change > Note Entries > Horizontal Position.

Bill Stevens

>> if you press Shift while dragging, everything after the selected handle will move in tandem with it

What a great tip, Vaughn. I've always dragged beats beginning from the right side of the measure, but this will change my approach.

Bill

Mike Halloran wrote: >> At first I wondered why anyone would want the non-breaking hyphen Lutherans need it for "well-being" in chanting the Kyrie. You mention using the en-dash which is really too big for a hyphen, but you can select the dash and reduce the font size and it's acceptable, though the...

Are you writing for tenor banjo or 5-string banjo? I believe that tenor transposes and 5-string does not.

You wouldn't have to attach the entire document. You could make a copy and delete everything except the first page or so.

Bill

What is the keystroke for elision in the Lyrics Font? Odd that under Help > Character Sets it shows keystrokes for all the fonts except Lyrics.

Bill

From the manual: OpenTo create an elision slur between lyrics Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics menu appears. Choose Lyrics > Lyrics Window. The Lyrics window appears. Type the lyrics in the usual way, up to the elision. Type the first syllable. Without adding a space, type a capital I, then the s...

It works for me, so to figure out your problem I guess you'll need to post a small sample.

Bill

You are all correct. Trashing prefs fixes the chop, but any change to the shape of the palette causes it to immediately reoccur.

Thanks.

Bill

Mike, I think you mentioned this, or something like this a while back. In 2014.5 with Sierra 10.12.5 my tool palette is chopped off as in the attachment. This doesn't happen in 25.4 or 2014. I've tried change the tool size from large to normal but that didn't help. If I stretch them horizontally or ...

Older than Mike, which is saying something.

Bill Stevens

When I've had measures like that once in a while I have marked them 4 ½ over 4. Yeah, I know, sorta cutesy, but the song was humorous.

Bill

Make sure that both notes are in the same layer.

In Speedy Entry use T or =.

Bill

Then under the Speedy menu uncheck Jump to Next Measure.

Are you entering the notes with Simple or Speedy?

How about Song Grinski, which oddly enough is an anagram of Grossingink.

Oops, I just noticed that it was Hector Pascal who started this thread. In that case, I would go with this anagram:

Carol Hepcats.

Bill

Ah, yes. Charles reminds me of one of the biggest drawbacks of the Ossia Tool -- that slurs in the origin measure don't get carried over to the target measure. If that doesn't make sense, then welcome to the Ossia Tool. I recall that when I did the project I described I would have to make a slur els...

A few years back I helped my daughter-in-law with her dissertation which included many examples like the one you posted. I experimented with the various ways of handling the notation, which have all been mentioned here already, and surprised myself by eventually choosing the Dreaded Ossia Tool. I wo...

It is in the November font, but you would have to pay for that.

Bill

It would be best to see an example, but I'm guessing that flipping the triplet would work fine.

Bill Stevens

Mike,

But to see the poster's signature you have to open the topic. I'm asking that the signature somehow be included in the list of topics.

I get it that many of the questions are universal, but just this morning there were several that were not.

Bill

On the old forum there were separate Mac and Windows sections. I know that some people thought the two sections should have been combined, which is what has been done here, but I often read a question only to get to the end of it and realize it is Windows-specific. I wish that either the two could b...

In the manual look for Cross-Staff Notes.

Bill