Reply To: Mr Fancy Pants
Hey, I like it a lot, Colleen!
I do all my notating with Noteworthy (which oughta be an ad jingle), but I haven’t worked with it that much (no musical talent). Still, I’ve seen a couple of workarounds for swing and other stuff (like trills, wouldjabelieve?) — NWC tries to be both a MIDI sequencer and a notation-printer, so the workarounds usually end up having some hidden, audible tracks for the sequencer and some visible, muted tracks for notation-printing purposes. Awkward, no doubt, but hey, $40.
The solutions I’ve seen to the spoken x-notehead problem have been awfully involved — worse, they don’t play nicely with NWC itself. (They mostly involve exporting to other programs and editing them there — see the Scriptorium‘s “xfonts.zip” for a really unnecessarily complicated 12-step process, for example.)
Oh, right, NWC2. Have you upgraded, Colleen? (I, er, ought to.) If you’re running 2.0, check out the “What’s new” page for really simple, straightforward x-notehead instructions.