What's new in NoteWorthy Composer 2.75a.2
Sep 4, 2017
- Beam groups
- Courtesy accidentals
- Expanded range and fractional tenths for stem lengths (Alt+↕ in the editor)
- Expanded range and fractional tenths for note spacing (Alt+↔ in the editor)
- Expanded range and fractional tenths for accidental spacing (Alt+Shift+↔ in the editor)
- New Extra Dot Spacing option enables horizontal spacing control; hide the augmentation by setting this negative
- Finalized Multi-part Augmentation Dot Placement option in Staff Properties
- Position indicator, with leger lines, in the left side active staff frame
- Bar Number Panel now includes an indicator for notes with the Muted property
- New control key enabling mouse-over behavior in the editor
- Simplified grace note slur placement
- ANSI Text Encoding option for MIDI files (Tools, Options, File)
- Support for expandable file/folder path names
- Built-in Lua plugin and user tool API reference (Help, Lua API Reference)
- Download option in User Tools interface for forum hosted .nwcut.lua scripts
- Additions to the object plugin api, including support for integrated user tools
- Convert options now built into the main nwc2.exe program
- Detect problems with Unicode filenames that cannot be represented in ANSI
- Fix for a computation anomalies in the object plugin drawing mechanism
- Fix for loading files created/edited by an old NWC version 1 program
New in NoteWorthy Composer 2.75 (Jan 13, 2016)
- Official support for Windows 10
- Unicode support for all user entered text in the *.nwc/nwctxt file
- Dynamic loading of many standard NWC fonts, including the Pardy Font Pack
- Custom Objects, and a plugin API
- New Marker object for greater control over articulation, slur and triplet rendering
- Finer control over Expression Placement Staff Position (2 decimal places)
- Scaling of individual text expressions (Insert, Text)
- By popular demand, by default, the Notes toolbar again shows the full accidental and duration palette of buttons
- By popular demand, the ability to map File, New to your own custom folder location has returned
- A new MIDI File option has been added to Tools, Options, Folders
- Tools, Options, File, Start Export at MIDI Folder can be used to start File, Export from this new folder
- nwctxt format used for all clipboard operations
- Find now supports Next (F3) and Previous (Shift+F3) directions
- Find now supports searching through the current staff or all editor staffs
- Edit,Find and Edit,Filtered Properties now show the match count for the given search expression
- Relaxed stem direction rule when adding chord members
- Pitch Bend Range support added to the Instrument specification
- Multi-point Controller now accepts empty time offsets, which can be useful for resetting a sweep, such as with Pitch Bend
- Notifications alerts now popup when some kind of warning or error notification has been detected within the system
New in NoteWorthy Composer 2.51 (Jan 13, 2016)
- Built-in user tool scripting with Lua
- Built-in Retrograde and Show Note Names user tools included with the program (using Lua)
- New targeting mechanism for adding tie, accidental, glyph, and color options to individual, existing notes in a chord
- PCRE expressions in the Find and Filtered Properties commands
- Enhanced play back status timer with interactivity
- Enhanced Print Preview
- New accidental, duration, notehead, color, clef, key signature, time signature, rest, bar line, and dynamic selectors in the Toolbar
- Enhanced Edit Find mechanism
- Enhanced Tools, Score Review mechanism
- Enhanced editor scrolling support
- Built-in support for some special play related computer keyboard function keys
- File, New, Browse function
- New lyric syllable spacing
- Changes for Staccato performance style
- On-screen piano now supports over 10 point multi-touch
- User customized command images in the toolbars
New in NoteWorthy Composer 2.5.5 (Nov 30, 2012)
- New Insert Spacer mechanism
- New Boundary Change for dynamically changing a staff boundary during print
- New Boundary Collapse for dynamically hiding parts on some print systems
- New Boundary Change Staff Gap for creating a gap in the system, commonly used for ending Coda sections
- Full "round trip" support for working with *.nwctxt files
- User tool support for accessing the entire file or just the current selection
- New character map utility for use in creating text expressions via Insert, Text
- Text Expression access to primary and cue sized Staff Symbol Font
- New Edit, Filtered Properties command
- Shape notes
- Pause command during play back
- New Multi-measure Rest
- New Bar Number Panel in the editor which shows the measure numbers for the active staff
- Caesura added to Tempo Variance
- Staccatissimo articulation
- Marcato articulation
- Persistent note tools are now individually configurable
- The Orchestral staff style now supports staff groups, with each different group shown in its own bracket in the conductor score
- Support beaming through a clef change
- An Abbreviated Staff Label can be optionally assigned to each staff
- New page setup option for printing a multi-staff system separator mark
- Special endings now support start, continue, and close configurations
- New special ending bracket height and offset options
- New Transparent bar line style
New in NoteWorthy Composer 2.1 (Apr 17, 2010)
- New interactive piano bar, with significant editor integration
- New "Viewer Mode" for in place editing of the printed view of the work
- New cross hair for quickly finding your current location/insertion point
- Improved active staff boundary lines when in edit mode
- Color highlighting for noteheads with a new quick access tool palette
- New backup mechanism for handling .bak files during save
- New staff label taskbar in the editor, with tooltip for current clef, key, and time signature
- New persistent selection when changing the active staff
- New multiple document selector in the status bar
- New Layering Tool for quickly combining visible staves into layers
- Play/record indicator in the document selector
- Current clef, time signature, bar and MIDI channel are shown in the status bar
- A file changed indicator in the editor window's title bar and Window menu selector
- An origin indicator in the editor window's title bar and Window menu selector for unsaved editor windows from imported or backup sources
- Support for opening a file as "read-only"
- New "Fake" items in user tool clip text provide reliable play context for smaller clipped sections
- Expand editor background color control to support full RGB palette
- New active staff background color while in edit mode
- A command line program, nwc-conv.exe, is now included for converting *.nwc files to and from various other formats
- New "Show/Hide Rest" option for RestChord objects
- New line drawing techniques to help work around buggy print drivers
- Tools->Windows Volume Control support in Windows 7 and Vista
- MIDI import safeguards when encountering null tempos
- Audit bar line handling of double dots at bar boundary
- Leger lines now always print in matching color to the staff
- Leger lines are drawn consistently for staves with custom number of lines
- Improved default folder for "Song Files" and "Auto Save/Recovery" file locations when not set by the user
- Improved tempo variance handling for adjacent grace notes
- Improved triplet bracket positioning for starting or ending rest
- Improved notehead alignment for split stem chords
- Allow larger notation from File, Page Setup, Fonts
- Accept MIDI notes down to C-1
- Use standard notation octave indicators (C-1 to G9) in MIDI import instructions
New in NoteWorthy Composer 2.0 (Mar 2, 2009)
- Support for user selectable notation font
- Hear notes as you add them to the staff
- Hairpin/graphic crescendo/diminuendo note properties
- X noteheads for percussion notes
- Diamond noteheads for other non-pitched and harmonic notes
- A blank notehead for unusual circumstances
- Percussion Clef
- A new Instrument Tree mechanism
- New Bi-directional Clipboard Text
- New user tool mechanism for scripting clip text processing
- Lyricist field (in addition to the existing Author/Composer field)
- User control over note stems
- Slurs are now drawn to the contour of the enclosing notes
- Default beam placement and slant have been completely redesigned
- Grace note scaling is now more consistent with standard conventions
- Accidentals and other note symbols are now scaled on grace notes
- Grace notes are slurred independently from primary notes
- Grace note stems default to up when their stem direction is not set
- Text expressions now show typeface, style, and size for font selection
- A new anchor symbol for expressions (a replacement for the diamond)
- Optional support for underscores in your lyrics (shut off translation to spaces)
- Staff labels, which are separate from the staff name
- Staff labels can optionally be shown in the editor
- New "Use stem for articulations" option for selected notes
- Inverted fermata is now automatic when placed below the center of the staff
- Automatic handling of accidentals for tied notes across bar lines
- Hidden items show in active and inactive colors for quicker identification
- New note alignment algorithm (the notation alignment scheme has been totally redesigned)
- Accidental placement within chords has been totally redesigned, making them more consistent with prevailing notation guidelines
- Bar lines can optionally be excluded from the built-in measure counter
- Improved expression placement options
- Improved rendering of Grand Staff and Orchestral Staff braces
- Copy Special and Print Preview Copy now use the Windows Enhanced Metafile format (EMF)
- Staff notation limits increased to 32000 items (an almost 300% increase)
- New top and bottom margins in the score editor
- Wheel mouse can now be used for vertical scrolling
- More highlight colors (7 highlight colors, double the version 1 highlights)
- Direct entry of Multi-point Controller values via Edit boxes
- Toolbar data is now stored in the Config Files folder, and is named "nwc2toolbars.dat"
- When run on Windows XP, the selected display theme is supported in dialogs and windows
- File Open/Save now support new Windows 2000/XP/Vista favorites section on the left side of the dialog
- Mouse pointer in editor uses system cursor when run on a Windows XP/Vista system
- New Justify printed systems vertically option for controlling whether printed systems are justified vertically when printing