I don't think what's being described will be covered by TG Tools - it's tremolo notation. I'm sure it's fairly simple as a manual workaround, although this isn't a good option for a whole song (or songs).
My two cents, however, are that this notation is hideous and unnecessary. It's the kind of thing that was preferable to an engraver when they were actually engraving, and every notehead fewer was a bit less to their workload. It's not necessary on computer notation. Therefore the only reason to use it is if it provides greater clarity than a fully-notated version, or than an alternative abbreviation. And I don't see that it does either of these.
<snip> In defense of the tremolo:
In much of the 4 and 8 hand music, the use of the tremolo is helpful to the reader, especially when sight-reading as is more often the case with this type of music. As you are sight-reading, when you read ahead and determine what the note pattern is for measure number 10 and then see a tremolo of the same notes following in measuress 11 and 12, you do not have to analyze further and can then do other things like peek ahead beyond that to measure 13 &etc., or focus on listening and currently playing well measure 9 and 10. Also, when a tremolo is followed by a fully notated measure, then the sight-reader is alerted that something is different since the tremolo notation is not being used in that measure, such as the last beat being different notes. This happens a lot in symphonic arrangements.
I prefer to see six measures of tremolos rather than six measures of the same 32nd notes, especially if the seventh measure has a slightly different pattern -- see the mass of notes after a series of tremolos warns me I need to analyze the notes carefully. Moreover, seeing 6 measures of the same notes repeated becomes almost hypnotic and if they are all the same I, as the reader, have to make sure each note is the same or different. When I finish reading the set and verifying all the notes are the same, I wonder why did the engraver not use the short-hand tremolo to convey the same information to me in a more concise fashion.
Two cents from a sight-reader.
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John Poole
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