On May 31, 2005, at 7:15 AM, Neal Gittleman wrote:
Any suggestions on how I can get those secondary beams to connect
either by giving me another step to do or by suggesting a different
overall strategy for note entry?
I haven't actually tried it, but my first instinct would be to enter
all six notes in both layers, then use special tools to make the stem
and notehead invisible on the three you don't want. (Come to think of
it, I guess you'd have to do five notes in each layer, skipping the
first in one and the last in the other.) If you're doing playback, use
the MIDI tool to turn off the invisible notes, too.
To me that feels cleaner than stretching notes out of order or messing
with tuplets. And if the rhythmic pattern persists, you can copy the
measure and adjust the notes as needed. Doesn't seem too bad.
mdl
P.S. That business with secondary beams not extending properly over
rests is a bad flaw. I would have thought they'd fixed it by now, but
apparently not. Does it still have that other quirky problem where the
secondary beam stretches way too long? I forget how that comes up, but
I remember having a heck of a time with that once. Keeping secondary
beams solid over a rest, visible or invisible, ought to be a simple
option. It shouldn't be such a big deal.
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