Warren Porter's Webpage for NoteWorthy Composer® related files

Dedicated to the memory of Rick Geibel, a knowledgeable and very helpful NWC user on their Forum.

Webpages to create or modify nwctxt or NWC clipboard data.

Since buying a copy of NoteWorthy Composer in 1998 I have created numerous files to help other choristers learn their part, hear how a song or piece of music is supposed to sound, or to provide accompaniment for what I play on the violin. In addition to listening to files others have submitted to Scriptorium and other sources, I am a frequent visitor to the NWC forums and have contributed tips on printing orchestra parts and creating various n-tuples. Since clipboard data created and read by NWC (in addition to their .nwctxt format) is text based, tools can be written to create or modify it.

These are my contributions to the Scriptorium.

Rick G showed me how to convert my webpages to user functions and his help was invaluable.

If you need to run any of these when you won't have internet access, you may do a "Save As" from your browser. When run from your computer, an unlabeled checkbox may appear in the lower left--this was used to provide test data when I was working on it.

Web pages to open concurrently with NWC

Some of these have been converted to User Tool Scripts, check next column.

Twelve Tone Row. Copy to clipboard to read into NoteWorthy2 program.
Guitar Chords. Copy to clipboard to read into NoteWorthy2 program. Remembers your options.
Move Guitar Chords. Moves chord names to lyric staff after creating them with Guitar Chords.
Fix accidentals. After guitar.htm and audit accidentals you may need this.
abc to nwc Converts ABC notation to NWCTXT.
Tempo change based on factor or requested duration of piece.
Custom Dynamics to allow crescendo on one note.
Number Measures using your model measure number text entry.
Pentuplet (quintuplet) workaround. Does groupings other than five as well.
Triplet Conversion Increases duration of all notes by half. E.g., time sig of 3/4 changed to 9/8.
Adds next higher octave to any note.
Multi Measure Rest assistant for new version 2.5 features.
Note Spacing assistant to fill in the last line of a part.
Layered note avoidance assistant to create offsets when layered parts are in the same space.
Slur & Articulation avoidance. Forces slur and tie direction as well as stem articulation for complex layered staves.
Rubato.
Simultaneous rhythms 1-10 to a measure.
Plays grace notes before the beat.
Aligns 6/8, 9/8 etc into triplet beats.

User Tool Scripts for NWC

The following are scripts to put on your PC and are installed through NWC. To install:

"Save as" the script on your PC and note its location.
Open any file in NoteWorthy Composer. Enter Alt/F8 to bring up "User Tools".
Choose "New" and pick a Group and enter a Name for the script.
Click "Browse", find the script, and click "Open". At the beginning of "Command", insert "wscript ". Note trailing space.
If the script has a prompt (should be in first 10 lines), at the end of Command add a space followed by the prompt(s).

Dynamics Placement Move all dynamics up or down or to a specific place on the staff.
Custom Dynamics Velocity to allow crescendo on one note.
Multi Measure Rests Create or remove Multi-Rests and boundaries to collapse unused staves on a system.
Number Measures using your model measure number text entry; may be anywhere in first measure.
Resting Staff Turns a copy of a staff to rests for use when layering is needed.
Midi Triplets Converts two dotted 16ths and a 16th to triplet 8ths.
Time Text Displays cumulative time after bar lines.
Create Octave Changes notes to octave chords.
Rubato.
Audit Bar Lines Shows measures with too few or many beats.
Plays grace notes before or after the beat.
Aligns 6/8, 9/8 etc into triplet beats.

Various NWC files

B147Ch04.nwc Demo of nummeas and triplet, before and after.
Thais.nwc
Thais338.nwc Demo of tempochange before.
Thais500.nwc Demo of tempochange after.
voltest11.nwc Demo of dynamics.htm on lower staff.
barlines.nwc Demo of nummeas.htm on lower staff.
TupletTest.nwc Explanation and practice (measure 4) for Pentuplets.htm.
diy.txt Do It Yourself model for a webpage to manipulate NWC txt.

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