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                                  CONTENTS


     1    What is NoteWorthy?...............................2

     2    For those who don't read manuals..................3

     3    Getting started...................................4

     4    The file selection screen.........................5

     5    Basic Principles..................................6

     6    The screen........................................8

     7    Defining your system.............................10

     8    Typing in music..................................11

     9    Viewpoints and moving around.....................16

     10   Getting help.....................................18

     11   Adding text......................................19

     12   Adding lines and curves..........................21

     13   Adding symbols...................................23

     14   Altering existing music..........................24

     15   Moving, Copying and deleting.....................25

     16   Layout and formatting............................26

     17   File saving and loading..........................30

     18   Printing.........................................32

     19   Transposing......................................35

     20   Using the Mouse..................................36

     21   Frequently-Asked Questions.......................38

          Appendix A: The menu options.....................42
          Appendix B: NWSETUP and NW2.INI..................46
          Appendix C: For computer novices.................47
          Appendix D: Names and paths......................48
          Appendix E: Making the program run faster........49
          Appendix F: Note Styles..........................50
          Appendix F: Removing NoteWorthy from your system.51



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                             1. What is NoteWorthy?


     How often  have good,  well-thought-out musical  ideas been  spoiled in
     performance by  mistakes in reading? How often is this not the fault of
     the performer, so much as a difficult-to-read copy?

     The remedy is NoteWorthy.

     NoteWorthy is  a music  printing and  editing program for serious music
     writers -  composers, arrangers  and copyists  who need  to communicate
     their ideas  to performing musicians by producing the clearest and most
     easy-to-read music possible.

     It is rather like a good word-processing program which produces musical
     notation as  well as words. It is WYSIWYG - which means that what is on
     the screen  appears on  the printout (no unexpected shifting of text or
     symbols).

     But even  better is the fact that the control of the layout and spacing
     is entirely  at the  discretion of  the  writer!  The  program  doesn't
     dictate to you where characters must appear; instead they can be micro-
     spaced to exactly where you want them!

     Transposing? No problem! Once you've correctly entered a piece of music
     you can  save it, then transpose - including chord symbols - either the
     whole piece  of selected  staves either up or down, as far as you wish,
     at the press of a couple of buttons. Now save your transposed work as a
     new file and Bingo! You have copies in up to twelve different keys!

     Furthermore, NoteWorthy  music can be incorporated into word-processing
     files - a boon for those who write music tutors or collections.

     Thanks are  due to  Mike Muston,  a long-time NoteWorthy user, for this
     introduction.

     Technical details

     The system  works on  monochrome and Hercules, colour or monochrome EGA
     and VGA  video systems,  and will work with or without a mouse. A setup
     program is  provided to  customise your  package to your video, printer
     and computer  systems. It  needs  a  hard  disk  to  be  seen  to  best
     advantage.

     Since it  uses the disk extensively during operation, the use of a disk
     cache is highly recommended: see page 49 for fuller details.

     It drives common 9- and 24-pin printers (but gives far superior quality
     output on  the latter),  and other systems which can emulate them, such
     as bubble-jets.  It can operate a Laserjet-compatible printer in 150dpi
     or 300dpi  modes. These  are directly  comparable to  the 9- and 24-pin
     modes and  are referred  to as "draft" and " normal resolution" in this
     documentation.

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                       2. For those who Don't read manuals


     Getting started quickly: four steps

     1    Run the  installation program  INSTALL on  the distribution  disk,
          This will  place the following files on the nominated subdirectory
          of your  target disk.  You can  select the option to run the setup
          program NWSETUP and launch NoteWorthy (NW2) straight away, or just
          run NW2  straight away,  in which  case the program will ask if it
          may run NWSETUP for you!

          Windows users  can  install  with  the  program  WINSTALL  on  the
          distribution disk.  This can  be run  from the  Program Manager by
          selecting File  Run  and  giving  the  filename  A:\WINSTALL.  The
          installation process  copies files  to the  nominated subdirectory
          and optionally  creates a  new program  group with five icons. You
          should select  NWSETUP as  the  first  program  to  run,  although
          running the  first icon  for NoteWorthy  will cause the program to
          ask to run the setup program initially anyway.

     2    See Appendix  A (page 42) for further details of NWSETUP. The most
          important options  are to  set your  printer type  and video type,
          although  on  most  computers  NWSETUP  guesses  your  video  type
          correctly. If  you are  not using  an extended  keyboard then  you
          should set  this option too. Then select Finish and Save and Exit.
          Note that Windows users will also need to set up printer and video
          as NoteWorthy is a DOS program.

     3    If you requested it at step 1 above then the main program NW2 will
          run. If  not, simply  type NW2 to continue. (Windows users double-
          click the NoteWorthy icon).

     4    At the opening screen select New File (with Enter), and press Alt-
          F1 to follow the tutorial.

     There are  some demonstration  files supplied  with this  product,  and
     these will  appear at  the main program screen as an alternative to the
     New File  option. These  are not  listed here  as they will change with
     various releases of NoteWorthy, but they are all copyright-free and can
     be printed, examined or amended as the case may be.

     ...and for those who read manuals very closely

     There is an Addendum feature in NoteWorthy  2,  press  sh-F1  when  the
     program  is  loaded  to  see  how your version is an improvement on the
     manual.  Or you can print out  the  NW2.ADD  file as it's a simple text
     file.

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                               3. Getting Started


     Hard disk installation (DOS)

     From the  distribution floppy disk run the program INSTALL on the disk,
     eg

                    A:INSTALL


     In most  cases the  default options shown will be ideal, but increasing
     use of  multiple hard disk volumes may mean that you want to install on
     drive D: or even E: or more.

     Selecting the  second option gives a list of drives which exist on your
     computer for  you to  select. If  there is  insufficient room  on  your
     selected target  disk then  the 'Installation  Options' will flash, but
     you may  continue as  the program  does not  know whether  you will  be
     overwriting an existing NoteWorthy installation and thus saving space.

     Again, the  recommended target  directory for NoteWorthy is \NW2 but it
     may  be  that  you  already  have  another  application  using  such  a
     directory. In this case you could choose another subdirectory by typing
     a replacement name.

     When you  have completed  selections then  you can  select the 'Finish'
     option, and choose to Abandon, Install only, Install and Configure,  or
     Install, configure and run.

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                          4. The File Selection Screen


     The program is started from DOS with the command

                    NW2

     The file  selection screen is then seen. It contains a list of files in
     the current directory with extension ".NW" which the program expects to
     be  NoteWorthy   data  files.  At  the  end  of  this  list  the  other
     subdirectories  and  drives  are  listed,  including  the  DOS  pseudo-
     directory ".." . By moving the cursor with the arrow keys and selecting
     with Enter you can do one of a number of things:

          1    Select a directory name (shown as terminating with the \
               character) to move into that subdirectory.

          2    Selecting the  directory "..\"  to move  to  the  parent
               directory

          3    Selecting another disk (eg [A:]) to move to that device

          4    Selecting the  first option  "New file"  to start  a new
               document.

          5    Selecting one of the other .NW files will load that file
               for editing.

          6    The files  in this  file list  which have  an  extension
               other than plain ".NW" represent other associated files.
               For example,  sections of  music which represent partial
               saves have the extension ".NW$" and will be listed here.

          7    Pressing Escape quits the program.

     DOS users:  If the name of the existing file you wish to edit is known,
     then you  can start  NoteWorthy more  quickly by  giving this name as a
     parameter:

                    NW2 MYFILE

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                               5. Basic principles


     The program  can be  driven in three ways, which may sometimes be mixed
     according to the preferences of the user.

          1    By keystrokes.  Many instructions  cannot be produced by
               any other means. This includes basic production of notes
               (eg type  A to produce a note 'A'), embellishments (full
               stop (.)  adds a  dot to  the note  already there),  and
               other  symbols   such  as  bar-lines.  A  full  list  is
               available starting on page 13.

               To use  the analogy  of a word-processor: the basic text
               is produced  from the keyboard, rather than by selecting
               words  or   letters  from   a  menu.  In  the  same  way
               NoteWorthy's basic  units are notes (etc), and these are
               selected from the keyboard only.

               A large number of the keystroke commands in this program
               are cycling.  This means  that pressing the key a second
               time gives  another option,  and repeatedly pressing the
               key eventually  returns the  object(s) to  their initial
               option. For instance, pressing full stop (.) once 'dots'
               a note:  press it  twice  'double-dots'  the  note,  and
               pressing  a   third  time  returns  the  note  to  being
               undotted.

          2    By drop-down  menus. Pressing Esc when in normal editing
               mode will  produce a  menu-bar across  the  top  of  the
               screen: using  the arrow  keys and  Enter or  the  first
               letter of  the topic will result in a menu dropping down
               from  that  topic.  The  relevant  action  can  then  be
               produced from  the set  of commands  available, again by
               selecting with  the arrows  and Enter or the highlighted
               letter of the menu.

               Again, like  a  word-processor,  the  menu  options  are
               limited to  formatting  and  other  operations  such  as
               printing, but for some operations a keyboard shortcut is
               available for  instance Ctrl-R  as seen  on  the  screen
               above.

               Pressing Esc  again abandons  the drop-down  menu and/or
               the menu bar.

          3    If you are running the program with a mouse then in most
               parts of this program the right-mouse button is entirely
               equivalent to  pressing Esc  on the  keyboard. So  first
               pressing this  button will  produce the  menu bar,  from
               which the options can be clicked in the obvious way.

               However, in  addition to  this, in  mouse-mode, a  mouse
               toolbar appears above the status bar.

               This gives  a number  of shortcuts to operations such as
               save,  exit,   print.  To   assist  in  remembering  the
               operation of  the  buttons,  pressing  the  right  mouse
               button  when   over  a   button  will  produce  a  brief
               description of the function of the button.

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          Reading this manual

     This manual lists commands available in the order of

          a    keyboard instructions (eg Alt-F2)

          b    menu commands (Esc View PreView)

     Mouse shortcuts  are covered  separately in  the chapter  on using  the
     mouse (page 36).





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                                  6: The Screen


     The main  input screen  is divided  into two  sections (three for mouse
     users). The  upper section  is where  the music  will appear  and  will
     initially consist  of one  stave. The  lower section  contains  of  the
     status area, and just above this mouse users will see a toolbar.

     The status area

     The initial status area shows that

          a    the default  note length  is a  crotchet with  the  stem
               direction allocated automatically (Crotchet Auto)

          b    the tutorial is available by pressing Alt-F1

          c    the Addenda  to the manual are available by pressing sh-
               F1

          d    the current stave (where the I-shaped cursor resides) is
               number 1 of a total of 1 stave(s)

          e    the system number is likewise 1 of 1

          f    the page  number is  1 (or a ? may appear if the program
               is not  currently sure  of the  page number).  The  page
               numbers may  vary as the user moves staves apart, but at
               certain times  (eg before  previewing or  printing)  the
               program will  "repaginate" and  show the  correct value.
               Pagination can  be forced  on demand  from the  Esc View
               Repaginate menu.

     Central in  this area  is the  message  'Enter  Mode'  indicating  that
     NoteWorthy is  waiting for  music to  be entered. Other modes are Edit,
     Line-draw, Curve-drawing etc, as detailed below. In addition you may at
     times see "Thinking" while the program repaginates or transposes and so
     on.

     The NoteWorthy package operates in one of seven modes:

     Enter Mode
     Edit Mode      F10 or Esc Mode Edit
     Line Mode      F11 or Esc Mode Line
     Curve Mode     F12 or Esc Mode Curve
     Text Mode      F9 or " or Esc Mode Text
     Block Mode     F8 or Ctrl-F10 or Esc Mode Block
     Symbol Mode    Ctrl-F12 or Esc Mode Symbol


     Generating new  music will  be done  via Enter Mode, and from this mode
     you can  gain access to the other six modes by a menu or one simple key
     press as indicated. To return to Enter Mode from any of the other modes
     use the  Esc key.  (NOTE: in  the case of Edit Mode the escape key will
     cause you  to lose  all the  changes you have made: if you wish to keep
     these changes,  Carriage Return  will keep  the changes  and return  to
     Enter Mode)

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     For more  information on Edit Mode see page 24; Line and Curve Mode are
     covered on  page 21,  Text mode  on page  19 and Block Mode on page 25.
     Symbol mode  is the  way in which miscellaneous musical symbols such as
     dynamic marks (ff) or fermata are placed on the page and is covered
     on page  23. On  colour systems  the screen border changes colour as an
     assistance in monitoring the mode changes.

     If the  tutorial file  (NW2.TUT) is present in the NoteWorthy directory
     then the  message "Tutorial Alt-F1"  will appear  at the left. Likewise
     there may  be updates  to the  program not in the this manual in a file
     NW2.ADD, and  if this  is present  then Shift-F1 may be pressed to view
     it. It's  always worth  looking at  it -  at least  once! Help  is also
     always available  with the  F1 key  as indicated  at the  bottom of the
     screen.

     Aspect ratios

     If you  have a  VGA monitor  and have  selected the  VGA option via the
     NWSETUP program,  then the music as it appears on screen will be rather
     foreshortened, ie  squashed vertically. The reason for this lies in the
     What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get nature  of NoteWorthy.  If you are using a
     9-pin printer,  then each pixel (dot) on the screen corresponds exactly
     to one  dot on  the printer.  This means  that your  music will  always
     appear on  paper exactly  as you  see it  on screen. (High-density - 24
     pin/300 dpi laser - users will merely see a smoothed-out version of the
     9-pin output  on their  printouts). Hercules  and EGA  users will see a
     screen which  is much  nearer the actual printout aspect ratio, but VGA
     users will  be able  to see  more staves  on the screen at one time. If
     this misleading  aspect ratio  is distracting then VGA users can switch
     to EGA  mode by rerunning NWSETUP and stipulating that they have an EGA
     system. In any case, whatever system you are using, typing Alt-F2 gives
     preview mode  (or Esc  View PreView)  which always  gives  a  correctly
     scaled representation of the final printout.

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                             7. Defining your System


     In these  notes the  word 'system'  is used  in its musical sense, as a
     group of  staves bound  together by  a brace  or braces  and  (in  this
     program) sharing  a common  bar line.  This is  one 3-stave system with
     staves 1 and 2 bracketed:



     When you start NoteWorthy you will see a screen with just one stave.

     If you  write music  for other  than a  single  melody  line  you  will
     probably want  to see  more staves bound together. To produce this, you
     simple add more staves and then bind them together.

     To add  one more stave to that on the screen, press Ctrl-N or Esc Stave
     New.

     Now there are two systems, each of one stave.  To  construct  a  three-
     stave  system  press  Ctrl-N  again.   Now there are three single-stave
     systems which should be bound  together.   To  bind the first two, make
     sure the I-shaped cursor is on the top stave and press [  (left  square
     bracket) or Esc Stave System).

     Now pressing [ a second time will "close-bind" the top two staves:

     Pressing [  again would  unbind the  top stave  from the second, but to
     produce the  required system construction move the cursor to the second
     stave (down  arrow) and  press [  on this  stave so  that it  binds the
     second stave to the third.



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                               8: Typing in Music


     The principles  on which  the program is based are simple to understand
     and intuitive  in approach.  While many less-used options are available
     on drop-down menus or mouse toolbar, the majority of time you are using
     the program  you will  be using  the keyboard  to enter music. The key-
     presses which  enable this  are intended to be helpful in a mnemonic or
     other way.

     The current  'cursor' position  is shown  by a dotted (yellow on colour
     systems) I-shaped  cursor when in Enter Mode. The left and right cursor
     keys will  change its  position, as  will Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right at a
     faster rate.  (Mouse users can just click on the stave and the I-cursor
     will move  to that  position.)  A  complete  list  of  cursor  movement
     commands is  shown below in section 8 (page 12), and can always be seen
     on the  Help Screens  (F1). If  accelerated keyboard  is  selected  via
     NWSETUP then the cursor will move more rapidly when the movement key is
     held down.

     Particular objects  are now  created by  pressing a  particular key  or
     combination of  keys, in which case the object will appear on the stave
     in grey (or yellow on colour systems).

     But pressing  a particular  key does  not fix that object on the paper:
     this is  performed by  adding a  completion keystroke  (eg Enter  - see
     Completion Keys  below, page 15, for a full list - or the F1 Help). The
     advantage of  this is that the object can be manipulated into position,
     its attributes altered, or even changed to a different symbol before it
     is 'frozen'  into the  paper with  the completion  key. (Of course even
     once 'frozen'  it can  be altered  - see section on editing below, page
     24). If  you change your mind before 'freezing' the symbol then you can
     press Esc to abort, or another key to change to another symbol.

     It is  important to  realise that  all objects defined on the sheet are
     linked to  a particular  stave. This  is obvious  in the case of notes,
     clefs, etc.,  but also  applies  to  text,  slurs,  lines  and  dynamic
     markings. Normally  this is  no drawback but it should be realised that
     moving the  stave vertically  with respect  to its neighbours will move
     all the  objects associated  with it.  If you  want  an  object  to  be
     attached to  a different  stave then move to that stave (see section 9,
     Viewpoints, p. 16 below) and then define the object.

     Sometimes during  editing it  is found  that the some of the objects on
     screen have  been partially  or totally  erased. If  this  happens  the
     following keys are useful:

     F2        Redraw the current stave

     Shift-F2  Redraw the whole screen.

     An aside: In particular,  text (see page 19) is also attached to a
               stave. This  is so that you can add musical instructions
               ("legato" etc)  to a  stave and  have it  move with  the
               notes if  ever you  Compress or  Justify (see  page 26).
               However the  title of a piece will therefore be attached
               to the first stave, and is best added after the stave is
               complete, otherwise  the words of the title will move if
               the music on the stave is compressed.

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               For this  reason too,  if you  move text  up or  down in
               Block Mode  (see page  25) using the arrow keys, you are
               not changing  the page  it's attached  to. In Block Mode
               use the  PgDn/PgUp keys  if you want to move or copy the
               text to  another stave.  See the  section  on  blockmode
               (page 25) for full instructions.


     The complete list of keystrokes and symbols available is as follows, in
     somewhat logical order:-

     Ctrl-N    Add a  new system.  The system  added will have the same
               number of  staves and  be bound  in the  same way as the
               last system in the piece. Menu equivalent: Esc Stave New

     [         Bind or  unbind the  stave from the one below. There are
               three possibilities:  the stave  is not  bound  to  that
               below (different  systems); the  stave is  bound but not
               bracketed as for a string quartet; or it is bracketed as
               in a  piano score. In bracketed staves the bar-lines are
               drawn across  the space  between  the  staves,  in  non-
               bracketed staves  they do not - although they do line up
               automatically: see  / below  and section 7 on setting up
               the system (page 10). Menu equivalent: use Esc Stave.

     Alt-S          Define a  clef. The  first press  of the  key  will
               cause a treble clef to appear at the current position. A
               second Alt-S  changes the  symbol to  a  bass  clef  and
               repeated presses  will change  it to  an alto  and  then
               tenor clef  before it  cycles back  to the  treble clef.
               Normally this would be the first symbol entered on a new
               stave as  it is  not possible to enter key signatures or
               notes until the clef is defined.

     K         This defines  a one-sharp  key signature  appropriate to
               the clef defined. Repeated pressing will add more sharps
               up to  6. Continuing  to press  K defines  the key  of 6
               flats, 5, 4 etc.

     Shift-K   This moves  through the  flat keys  in the same way as K
               moves through  the sharp  keys. After  defining the  key
               signature it  pays to  leave some  space  to  the  right
               before adding notes. This will help if you transpose the
               music in  future: remember  a key  of 1  sharp becomes 6
               flats!

     C Major   Note that  giving the  command sequence  K -  Shift K  -
               Enter defines  a null  key signature of C major. If this
               is the first key signature on the stave then it is shown
               as a  natural sign  on the  centre stave,  but of course
               will not print. This is of particular value if the music
               is likely  to be  transposed later,  as the  correct key
               signature will then be placed at this position. (This is
               one rare  departure  from  the  WYSIWYG  status  of  the
               package in that on-screen symbols are normally printed)

     Alt-T          Defines a  common time (C) time signature. A second
               press defines an alla-breve () time signature.

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     Alt-U          Defines the  upper number  of a  time signature  as
               '2'. Repeated pressings cycle through the numbers 3 to 9
               and back to 0 and 1 etc.

     Alt-L          Defines the  lower number  of a  time signature  as
               '4'. Repeated  pressings cycle  through the  values '8',
               '16', '1' and '2'.

     1         Defines the  default note  duration (shown at the bottom
               of the  screen) to  be  a  breve.  The  other  durations
               defined are as follows:

     2         Default becomes semibreve

     3         Default becomes minim (double note)

     4         Default becomes crotchet (whole note)

     5         Default becomes quaver (half note)

     6         Default becomes semiquaver (quarter note)

     7         Default becomes demisemiquaver (eighth note)

     8         Default becomes hemidemisemiquaver (sixteenth note)

               If a  note has  already been  defined by  A to G (below)
               then  pressing   these  keys  will  change  the  current
               (uncompleted) note's  duration as  well as  the  default
               note duration.

     A-G, H    This places  a note  on the  stave  at  the  appropriate
               position on  the stave  in the  duration  given  by  the
               default shown  on the  information screen.  If the  same
               named note on a different octave is required then the up
               or down arrows can be used to redefine the note.

               Repeated pressing of the key will produce shorter notes:
               pressing sh-A  (etc) will produce cycle through notes in
               the same sort of way as K cycles through keys.

     For the  convenience of European users, the note H can be used to place
     what English-speaking  musicians call  B. Pressing  B and H are exactly
     equivalent in NoteWorthy.

     Notes have many other note attributes (dots, beams, etc) and a complete
     list of attributes and their keystrokes can be found at the end of this
     section.

     Z         Defines a  rest in  the current note duration. (Z=zzzzz,
               asleep, geddit?).  Repeated presses  cycle  through  the
               rest lengths  in the  same way  as for  notes. Rests can
               also be dotted in the same manner as notes.

     /         Defines a  bar line. Note that while the bar line can be
               defined  from  any  stave  in  the  system,  it  has  an
               existence only on the top stave. (This is important when
               editing it:  see section  9 below).  Subsequent  presses
               define two types of  double bar lines and three types of
               repeat bar  lines before  producing a  single  bar  line
               again.

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     ~         (tilde) Starts an arpeggiando (spread chord) sign moving
               vertically upwards  from the  bottom of  the stave.  The
               position may  of course be adjusted with the arrow keys.
               The length of the wavy line can be increased by pressing
               ~ again,  and decreased  with the  backspace key  as  if
               typing text.

     Note attributes

     While a  note is being defined (ie after giving it a name with A-G etc,
     and before  it is  fixed with  a completion key) the following keys are
     also operative:

     J         Note Stem  up (the note looks like a J - well, sort of).
               The default  note at  the  bottom  of  the  screen  also
               changes when this key is used.

     P         Stem down  ('P' looks  like  a  note  with  stem  down).
               Default changes.

     O         (letter O)  No stem.  Useful for  adding single notes to
               the stem of another note. Default changes.

     I         Stem direction  determined by  position of note on stave
               as in single melodies. Default changes.

     .         (full stop)  Add a dot to the note. A second press makes
               this double-dotting. A third press removes the dotting.

     '         (Apostrophe). Defines  the note  as staccato.  A  second
               press defines  it as  staccatissimo, and  a third  press
               makes it normal again.

     = or -         (equals/hyphen)   Places    a    horizontal    line
               above/below the note as emphasis. A second press removes
               the emphasis.

     0         (number zero)  Change note  style. The  first press will
               change the  note to  a small note, and then other types,
               including cross-headed  notes. The  styles are  shown in
               Appendix F on page 50. This key also affects accidentals
               and makes  them small  so that  they fit  in with  small
               notes. Note style is persistent (ie stays until changed)
               so that  long sequences of small notes or X-notes can be
               entered more easily.

               (Up and  down arrow  keys). These cause the note to rise
               or fall  by an  octave, up  to 12  leger lines  above or
               below the stave.

               (Backspace) If the note is a quaver or shorter then this
               causes it  to be  beamed to  the most recent note on the
               stave with  its stem  in the  same direction  and of the
               same style  (see 0  above). A  second press  of this key
               'unbeams' the note.

     T/t       This causes  the note to be tied to the most recent note
               of the  same pitch  on the stave. If a capital T is used
               then the  tie is  shown 'overhand',  the lower case t is
               for 'underhand' ties. A second press destroys the tie.

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     V         This turns  the  note  into  a  flat  symbol.  V  points
               downwards, hence flat - again "sort of"!

     W         Turns the note into a double flat sign(W=2 Vs, see?)

     S         As V above, but for a sharp sign.

     X         As V above, but for a double sharp sign.

     N         As V above, but for a natural sign.

               The flats  and sharps are not actually attributes of the
               notes but  symbols in their own right. This is to enable
               the flexible placing of accidentals in cluster chords.

               Completion Keys

     Notes require attributes attaching before they are 'completed', and all
     symbols can  be navigated  into place  with cursor keys before they are
     frozen in position. The following is a list of keys which will complete
     an object.

     Enter          Complete the  symbol but  do not  move the  cursor.
               Useful for  entering many  notes as a chord or the upper
               and  lower   elements  of   time  signatures.   If  this
               completion key  is for an accidental then the associated
               note does not appear (see spacebar below).

     Spacebar  Complete and  move a distance right. The actual distance
               is dependent  on the symbol just completed so that notes
               shorter than the pulse (page 26) have less space, dotted
               notes have more and notes longer than pulse have more.

               If the  completion key  for an  accidentals is  spacebar
               then a  default note is placed just after it. If this is
               not needed then it can be changed or aborted (with Esc).

     PgUp,PgDn Complete and  move the  cursor to  the  stave  above  or
               below. These are useful for aligning objects in the same
               position within  a system.  For instance the traditional
               piano clefs can be placed at the beginning of a piece on
               two staves with the sequence Alt-S PgDn Alt-S Alt-S PgUp

     Tab       Complete and  move right  to align  with the  next major
               object anywhere  in the  current system.  This is useful
               for aligning  objects together,  such as chords across a
               piano part or key signature changes. Not all objects are
               used as  'stopping points'  for the  cursor, however, in
               particular the  cursor will not jump to Text, Bar lines,
               Curves, Lines or accidentals.

     Shift-Tab As Tab but the movement is to the previous object.

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                         9. Viewpoints and Moving Around


     Horizontal movement

     As has  been mentioned  above, NoteWorthy  is a  WYSIWYG  package:  the
     pixels on  the screen  are exactly  the pixels printed on a low-density
     print image  of 120  dots per  inch, with paper width of 8" (960 dots).
     Since a VGA or EGA screen is 640 pixels wide (and Hercules is 720), the
     full paper is wider than one screen. Therefore we must be able to 'pan'
     across to  the right-hand  side of  the page.  The package will do this
     automatically whenever  it is  required, but  the following  keys  also
     affect horizontal movement:

     Spacebar  Moves to  the left by a default distance (see Completion
               Symbols, page 15 above)

     Tab       Moves right  to the  position on  the stave  which has a
               object defined in the current system. This is useful for
               aligning music. See Completion Keys, page 15 above)

     Shift-Tab As Tab but moves left to the previous object's position.
               See Completion Keys.

     Ctrl-Home Moves left and positions the cursor slightly in from the
               left margin, panning left if in full magnification mode.

     Ctrl-End  Move to  the right margin and pan right if necessary (if
               in full magnification mode).

     F3        Pressing this  key toggles  in and out of 'Zoom mode' in
               which it is possible to see the full page compressed. It
               is perfectly  possible to  work in Zoom mode, but it may
               be that  text and  other fine work becomes harder due to
               the  compression   of  pixels   on  the   screen.   Menu
               equivalent: Esc View Full.

     Vertical Movement

     The cursor  is always  placed on  a particular  stave, but may be moved
     between staves as follows:

               (Up and  down arrow  keys).  When  there  is  no  object
               uncompleted (in yellow or grey) then the arrow keys move
               the cursor  from stave  to stave.  This is  identical in
               action to PgUp and PgDn below.

     PgDn      Moves to  the  next  stave  completely  visible  on  the
               screen, or if this is the lowest on the screen, moves to
               the first on the screen.

     PgUp      Moves up likewise

     Ctrl-PgDn Redraws the  screen so  that the  top stave shown is the
               next full system below that currently on display.

     Ctrl-PgUp Ditto, moving upward.

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     Alt-PgUp/F4Shift the viewpoint down by one stave. Alt-PgUp is only
               available on  extended (102-key) keyboards. This and the
               following command is especially useful on systems with a
               large number of staves, too many to fit on one screen.

     Alt-PgDn/Sh-F4 Shift  the viewpoint  up by  one stave. Alt-PgDn is
               only available on extended (102-key) keyboards.

     F5        This pans  the screen up by a small amount, but does not
               directly affect  the stave position on the stave. If you
               want to  move the  music down  on the  printout, see the
               section Frequently-Asked Questions (page 38).

     Shift-F5  Pans the screen down.

     F6,Sh-F6  These keys  will move  the current and subsequent staves
               up or down relative to the page by a small amount.

     Esc G S   Direct jumps  to a  particular  system  number  of  page
               number may  be made from the Menu: Esc Go System, or Esc
               Go Page.

     Esc G T   Go to the Top of the score.

     Esc G E   Go to the End of the score.

     At times  the screen may need refreshing if objects or parts of objects
     have been  obscured by  editing or  moving  other  objects.  When  this
     happens F2  will redraw  the current stave and Shift-F2 will redraw the
     whole screen.

     Note that the redrawing of a stave is a matter of erasing the stave and
     redrawing its components. In the interest of speed, erasing is simply a
     clearing of  a rectangle  encompassing the  highest and  lowest objects
     attached to  that stave. It may happen that this causes erasure of some
     part of an adjacent stave, in which case Shift-F2 will be the best form
     of refresh.

     Page breaks

     The bottom  of the  page (as  given in  the page  length in NWSETUP and
     calculated during  repagination) is marked by a line across the screen.
     There are  two types  of page  break, forced and normal. If you wish to
     force a  system to  appear at  the top  of a  page, irrespective of the
     contents of  the previous page, then you should add a forced page break
     to the previous system.

     Move to  the previous  system and  use the  Menu  command  found  under
     Esc Stave to  add or  delete the  page break.  A wide  grey  (green  if
     colour) band  will appear  under the stave if it precedes a forced page
     break.

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                                10. Getting Help


     Help

     There are  a number  of help screens available to remind you of the key
     strokes which  the package uses. Pressing F1 at any time will produce a
     help screen  relevant to  the current  activity, but  any of  the other
     screens can be accessed with the PgUp or PgDn keys. Press any other key
     to return to your current mode.

     Tutorial

     Pressing Alt-F1  will produce  an on-line  tutorial provided  the  file
     NW2.TUT is  present on  the directory.  In fact  if this  file  is  not
     present then  the invitation to run the tutorial will not appear at the
     bottom left of the main screen.

     The tutorial  is intended  to be  a "get-you-started" session, and when
     this has  been run,  disk space  could be  saved by  deleting the  file
     NW2.TUT from the disk.

     Addenda

     If the  file NW2.ADD is available on the disk then the main screen will
     invite you  to press  Shift-F1. This file is intended to be for updates
     to the  manual such  as new  features in  the  version  you  have  been
     supplied with.

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                                 11. Adding Text


     The package  works in a number of modes. You will have entered music in
     Enter mode  but also available are Edit, Text, Line-draw and Curve-draw
     and other  modes. In colour systems the screen border changes colour as
     an indicator of the current Mode.

     Text mode is entered with F9 or the " (quotation mark) key, or from the
     menu with Esc Mode Text.

     The cursor changes to a small cross cursor (mouse users: a pencil), the
     mode is flagged in the status area at the bottom of the screen, and the
     current text font is shown.

     Choosing the font

     There are  currently five text fonts, and the font can be chosen before
     text mode  is entered  with the Menu command Esc Mode (select font), or
     from text  mode, provided  no text  has yet been placed on the screen a
     further press  of F9  will cycle  between them. They are essentially in
     two sizes, with upright and italic in each, together with a large Roman
     proportional font for titles.

     When in  text mode  the alphanumeric keys respond as might be expected,
     the backspace  key deletes  text,  and  the  arrows  position  it  more
     exactly. If  Esc is pressed then the text mode is aborted, if  Enter is
     pressed then it is completed, the text fixed in position and the system
     returns to normal Enter mode again.

     Should the  text be  completed with Ctrl-Enter then the current text is
     completed, the  program stays  in text mode and the cursor starts again
     just under  the last  text start.  This will  be found very useful when
     entering verses under music or alone at the end of a piece.

     Titles

     While the  large font is designed for titles, any font may be used, and
     as a  convenience during  typing, the  keystroke Alt-M  (middle) may be
     used just  before completion  and the  text will be placed centrally on
     the page.

     Special characters

     In text mode special keystrokes available are:

     F9        Change font  (as above).  Can only  be performed when no
               text has yet been typed at the cursor.

     Alt-B          This produces a flat symbol.

     Alt-N          A natural symbol. The sharp symbol is served by the
               standard keyboard  symbol

     Alt-C          This produces a copyright symbol.

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     Ctrl-A to G    Pressing these  keys results  in the  symbol A to G
               appearing at  the cursor  in inverse video which will be
               printed normally  on paper. These represent special text
               symbols which  will undergo  a  transposition  when  the
               Transpose function  (section 17,  page 35) is used. Thus
               inserting Ctrl-E  (displayed as  inverse E)  followed by
               the flat  sign and  later transposing  the stave  up one
               semitone will  lose the  flat sign.  A further  semitone
               transposition and  this E would become an F. Transposing
               up a further semitone will change the F to F# etc. These
               symbols  are   particularly  useful  for  other  harmony
               chords.

               If the  stave or  page is to be transposed later it pays
               to leave  some space  for sharps  and  flats  that  will
               appear after the transposition.

     ~         (tilde) Although  not  strictly  a  special  symbol,  it
               should be  noted that this character is designed so that
               it mates  with a second tilde for use in a trill sign in
               all except the largest font.

     The NoteWorthy  database is  based around  the notion of objects on the
     stave. Each  word of  text becomes  a separate  object, so  that  if  a
     complete sentence of many words is entered, the completion of text mode
     causes the  program to break this sentence into separate words, each of
     which it  regards as  an object (words of over 12 letters are broken up
     too). This  does not  affect any item of the printing process, but Edit
     Mode (chapter  13, page  24) behaves  differently since  each word will
     each  appear  as  a  separate  object  able  to  be  moved  or  deleted
     independently.

     The best  way to  enter words  under a  piece of  music will thus be to
     enter the words as a complete phrase using multiple spacebar presses to
     give the  words their  spacing, thus  avoiding repositioning the cursor
     for each word.

     Cursor movement

     It is  important to  realise that in the NoteWorthy system every single
     object on  the page  is attached  to, or  is part  of, a stave. This is
     obvious for  clefs and  notes but text is also attached to one stave or
     other. Usually  it is obvious which stave to attach text to in the case
     of tempo  or style  markings such  as allegro or legato. In the case of
     words of  hymns or songs placed between treble and bass staves the text
     could logically  be attached  to either, but it must be attached to one
     of them, and if the stave is ever moved or copied then the text will go
     with it.

     Consequently when  you are  in text mode the cursor movement is limited
     to a  region from the middle of the previous stave to the middle of the
     next (unless  of course  your stave is the first or last in the score).
     This should  give sufficient  freedom to  placing your text at the same
     time as helping you to attach it to the correct stave.

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                           12. Adding Lines and Curves


     Lines are most conveniently added with the mouse. See "Using the mouse"
     on page  36 for details.

     Straight lines

     This mode  is useful for drawing crescendo and decrescendo marks, first
     and second  time bar  markings and  any form  of orthogonal or diagonal
     lines.   It is  entered with the key F11 (from the menu, Esc Mode Line)
     at which  time the cursor changes to a large + marker which facilitates
     alignment on  the screen  of the  ends  of  segments  (mouse  users:  a
     pencil). During Line-Draw mode The following keys are then operative:

     (Arrows)  Move the  cursor. The  Ctrl key  may be  used to enhance
               this movement.

     Enter     When first  pressed, this key marks the start of a line,
               and subsequently  moving the  cursor drags the other end
               of the  line around the screen. A second press completes
               this line  and starts  another so  that continuous  line
               segments may be produced.

     Esc       This aborts  the current line (begun with the last Enter
               key) and returns to Enter mode.

     Curves

     Curve mode  is entered with F12, (or from the menu, Esc Mode Curve) and
     has a  similar behaviour to Line Mode except that more than two 'anchor
     points' are  required to  define a  curve. On  entering curve mode, the
     cursor changes  to a  small box  (again mouse  users: a pencil) and the
     following keys are operative:

     (Arrows)  As usual,  the box  moves,  and  this  movement  can  be
               enhanced with the Ctrl key.

               One restriction  is that curves are always defined left-
               to-right, so  any attempt to move the cursor back to the
               left of the last anchor position will be ignored.

     Enter          Defines an  anchor point.  The first  press of this
               key has  little apparent  effect, except  that  the  box
               moves a  little to the right. The second press defines a
               straight line  between the  last anchor  point  and  the
               current one,  while the  third  and  subsequent  presses
               erase the  current curve  and add a further anchor point
               to the curve (technically known as a cubic spline).

     Esc       This quits curve-drawing mode and erases the box markers
               previously drawn, leaving the curve on the page.

     Up to  20 anchor  points can  be used  to define the curve, but this is
     extreme, as  in most  cases 3 will suffice for a slur, and 4 or 5 for a
     phrase mark.

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     In the  drawing of  long curves, it is often found that the position of
     some of  the inner points is not quite right, but the position of these
     can be  modified in  Edit mode to make the curve just right. Due to the
     WYSIWYG nature  of NoteWorthy,  the positioning  of curves, lines, text
     and other symbols on the printed page can be relied upon to be the same
     on the printed page.

     Cursor movement

     As with text (see the last paragraph of the preceding section, page 20,
     lines and  curves are always attached to a stave, and to help you avoid
     attaching lines  to the wrong stave the cursor movement is limited to a
     range from  the middle of the preceding stave to the middle of the next
     (excepting of course first and final staves).

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                               13. Adding Symbols


     Symbol Mode

     NoteWorthy is  capable of  adding a  large range  of musical symbols to
     your output.  As always, each symbol is attached to a stave and will be
     moved with the stave if the stave is moved vertically or will move with
     the notes  if the  stave is  compressed or  justified (section 16, page
     26).

     Selection of  symbols is  particularly easy.  Select Symbol  Mode  with
     Ctrl-F12 (menu  equivalent: Esc  Mode Symbol)  and a  set of symbols is
     placed on the screen. Select with the arrows and Enter, when the symbol
     appears on screen and can be moved into position. Press Enter to place.

     It is  important to  realise that symbols placed in the music from this
     menu have no musical relevance for the computer program and the package
     sees them  as mere  shapes on  the screen.  So, for instance, you could
     imitate the  rare Soprano  Clef (a treble clef placed one line lower so
     that the  bottom line of the stave is G) by using the large treble clef
     sign from  this menu and deleting the real treble clef at the beginning
     of your  piece. However  this would  not make  the names  of your notes
     change as  the system  does not  recognise this  symbol as defining the
     clef for  the system in use. Similarly sharps and flats placed by using
     this Symbol Mode would not be transposed if transposition is performed.

     Attaching to the right stave

     It is  important to realise that every object in NoteWorthy is attached
     to a  stave: symbols no less. If you attach a symbol to a stave then it
     will move  with the  stave, be justified, compressed, copied or deleted
     with the  stave. The  stave to  which it will be attached is the one on
     which the I-cursor was when Symbol Mode was entered.

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                           14. Altering Existing Music


     To enter  Edit Mode,  press F10  or from  the menu,  Esc Mode Edit. The
     object nearest  the cursor  will now  change  colour  (red  for  colour
     systems, grey  otherwise).  It  can  now  be  edited  in  a  completely
     intuitive way  depending on  the actual  symbol shown. The normal input
     keys are  active except  that an  object cannot  be changed  to another
     object, although  notes can  be  changed  in  their  attributes  (dots,
     emphases, names, octaves, durations etc).

     Another difference  is that  in edit  mode curves  are erased and their
     defining points  replaced by  small boxes whose position can be altered
     with the  arrow keys.  The curves  will be  redrawn when  edit mode  is
     terminated.

     Note that  bar lines  exist on  the top stave of a system only, so that
     they can  only be  moved or  changed by  moving the  cursor to  the top
     system and editing with F10.

     The list of keys available in Edit Mode is as follows:

     (Arrows)  Same operation  as in Enter Mode. However, Ctrl-Left and
               Ctrl-Right change  the editable  object to  that to  the
               left or right respectively.

     A-G,H     Change object to an A-G/H note

     1-8       Change duration  of note  (NB the  default at the screen
               bottom does not change in Edit Mode)

     JPOI      Change note stick orientation

     (Backsp),T,t   Make or break a  or tie, as in Enter Mode

     0'=.      Change note style, staccato, emphasis or dotting

     /         Change bar line type

     Kk        Change key signature

     Del       Delete symbol

     If the  edit is  terminated with  Esc then  the edit will be aborted on
     confirmation of  the prompt,  but this  will  cause  the  stave  to  be
     reinstated just as it was before the F10 key was pressed. When the edit
     is terminated with Enter then the current stave editing is complete and
     fixed in place.

     Multiple Editing

     Many objects  can be  edited at once. The Ctrl-right and Ctrl-left keys
     can be  used to  'drop' the  current red object and move to the next in
     the required  direction. In this way many objects may be edited at once
     and then the resulting complete stave be reinstated into the page.

     Note that  beamed notes  may need  to be  unbeamed before  changing the
     attributes which would make this impossible (eg J,P, 0 (zero)).

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                        15. Moving, Copying and Deleting


     At times it is faster to copy existing phrases of music than to re-type
     them. This  might be  true, for instance, in the duplication of a voice
     melody in  an accompanying part. In this context the program produces a
     facility to copy, move or delete whole sections of music.

     The key  F8 enters  Block Mode and the cursor changes to a small cross.
     Move the  cursor to  a corner of the symbols to be marked, press  Enter
     and move the cursor to the opposite corner. As you do so a box is drawn
     on the  screen and  a second press of the Enter key completes this box.
     The objects  inside it  will turn grey (red on colour monitors) so that
     the extent of the block marking can be seen unambiguously.

     The following keys are then effective:

     Esc       Abort the block mode. The program returns to Enter Mode.

     (Arrows)  Move the  box (the  outline only  is shown  moving).  As
               usual, the movement can be enhanced with the Ctrl key.

     PgUp, PgDnThe  box moves  to another  stave. Should  this stave be
               'off screen'  then a full-screen version of the page and
               box is shown.

     Alt-C     Copy the  contents of  the box  to the current position.
               The box remains marked for a possible further copy, move
               or delete. Press Esc to return to Enter Mode.

     Alt-D     Delete the old contents of the box.

     Alt-M     Move the contents. This is equivalent to copying the box
               and then deleting it.

     One point must be noted. Bar lines are not copied as they exist only on
     the top stave of a system.

     Tip:      If the  selection box  picks up notes you don't want but
               are unavoidably  selected, make  the copy  anyway. It is
               easier to delete the unwanted notes in Edit Mode.

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                            16. Layout and Formatting


     Program Options

     The menu command Esc Options Options show the current options available
     in the program:

     Relevant to  the layout  and formatting  of the music are the following
     values:

     1    Minimum beaming  angle (change  with Esc  Options Min).  Set to  a
          default of  10, this  affects the  aesthetic appearance  of beamed
          notes. Beams  are formed  by attempting  to fit a straight line to
          the tails  of the  constituent notes,  but gradients close to zero
          leave a jagged edge when printed. Thus beams which would have been
          less than  this beaming angle will be forced to be horizontal. For
          instance a  minimum beam  of  90  would  force  all  beams  to  be
          horizontal, while  0 would  allow them all to form angles with the
          horizontal.

     2    Compression factor  (change with  Esc  Options  Compression).  See
          formatting, below.

     3    Spacing grade,  1 -  5. (change  with Esc  Options SpAcing).  This
          gives the  space which  will be seen between pulse notes (see next
          option) when  the spacebar  is pressed  as a  completion key.  Use
          spacing grade 1 for compressed music and grade 5 for large default
          spaces between notes. Of course the actual spacing can be manually
          changed with  the arrow  keys before a note is frozen in place but
          the pressing  of space  is intended  to assist  the  user  with  a
          convenient sized gap between notes.

     4    Pulse  (change   with  Esc   Options  Pulse).   Demisemiquaver  to
          semibreve. The pulse note receives a default space (1, above) when
          space is used to move the cursor at completion. Dotted pulse notes
          take rather  more space, and notes which are double (or more) take
          larger space  again. Notes  half the  pulse or less take less than
          the default  spacing. Judicious  use of  these two parameters will
          minimise your  manual horizontal adjustment of notes before fixing
          them on the stave.

     Changing the system width

     Besides compressing  and  expanding  music  within  a  system,  systems
     themselves may  be placed  at a distance in from either the left or the
     right margin  to allow  room for  text or special symbols etc. The keys
     which perform  this operation  are Ctrl-R  (fix the  right margin)  and
     Ctrl-L (fix the left margin).  Both these options can be performed from
     the menu Esc Stave).

     Ctrl-L    The left  side of  the current  system is  fixed at  the
               cursor position.  If this would have resulted in symbols
               being  'orphaned'  beyond  the  stave  limits  then  the
               operation is disallowed and a warning given.

     Ctrl-R    The right  side of  the current position is fixed at the
               cursor position.  Again it  is not  possible  to  orphan
               objects outside the system length.

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     If the margins need to be reset then the cursor can still be moved back
     to the original position and the commands re-typed.

     Tip 1:    Move clefs  and key signatures to the right before using
               Ctrl-L. If  you have  re-formatted  the  stave  (Esc F6)
               there will be a bar line on the extreme right. This will
               need moving  left before the stave can be shortened with
               Ctrl-R.


     Tip 2:    Because systems  can be moved up and down it is actually
               possible to  shorten one  on the  right, another  on the
               left and move them alongside each other.


     Formatting

     It is  one thing  to type  in music, it is another to get the layout on
     the page  just right.  In addition  to the  pulse  and  spacing  above,
     NoteWorthy can  help considerably  in getting  the bars  per line  just
     right. There are three options available here:

     a         To push  existing work to the left to squeeze in another
               bar at the end

     b         To push some of the existing work right to insert a bar

     c         To make  the current  music  expand  to  fill  the  page
               neatly.

     These options are available on the Staves drop-down menu.

     1         (Esc Stave  Left).  To  produce  a  compression  of  the
               existing music to the left, first move the cursor to the
               position (typically  at the  end of the current music on
               the line),  and select  this  option.  Doing  this  will
               result in  a compression  by about  20% to the left. The
               amount of  compression can  be altered  by changing  the
               compression parameter (see above).

     2         (Esc Stave  Right) To  produce a  compression  right  in
               order to  open a  space, move the cursor to the required
               position and use this option.

               If you  have forgotten  a bar out of your music, you may
               be able  to squeeze  up the  music to the left and right
               just enough  to insert  your section.  In this  case you
               would compress  left and  right with  the cursor  in the
               place  where  you  wish  to  insert  the  music,  and  I
               recommend a  low value  of the  compression factor:  the
               line can always be compressed more than once.

     3         (Esc Stave  JustifY). To  fill out  existing music, move
               the cursor  to a position in which the music to the left
               is not  to be moved, and the music to the right is to be
               filled out  to the  stave end  (this will typically be a
               position after the key signature) and press Esc, F6.

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     How formatting works

     There is  no automatic  formatting in NoteWorthy. The spacing is always
     under your  control, and  when a compression or expansion is requested,
     then the  program merely  expands or contracts the spaces between notes
     or symbols in proportion to the expansion or contraction required. Thus
     if notes  are almost  next to each other it may in fact not be possible
     to compress the stave at all.

     Once notes,  clefs, accidentals, etc are moved then the other items are
     made to  fit in  with this.  Lines, curves  and text  are then moved in
     accordance  with   this  reformatting  so  care  must  be  taken  in  a
     compression that text is not overlapping other text.



     Note:     Since the  Justify option  shifts all  the objects out to the
          complete size  of the stave, it is important that the final object
          should not be at the end of the stave or else the justification is
          already done! It is very easy to inadvertently leave a bar line at
          the extreme  right and wonder why Justify does not move the music.
          Simply delete the last bar line and try again.

     Paging and page layout

     Since the program handles more than one page it must break the music up
     into pages.  It will never break up a system to do this, but will force
     a page-break before a system if that system will not fit on the rest of
     the page. You will see a line (green for colour, dotted for monochrome)
     across the  screen below  the last  system on a page. However this will
     only be  a reliable  guide after  a Repaginate  command (menu  Esc View
     Repaginate) or  an operation  which  forces  a  repagination  (such  as
     Preview mode, Alt-F2).

     Headers and footers

     In addition  to plain pages produced by default, it is possible to have
     a header and footer defined which will appear on each page.

     Before it  is possible  to define either, then the user must define the
     size of the header or footer (or both).

     The sizes  are given  in inches,  and are on the Document menu. Typical
     sizes might  only be  0.25" as  any room  taken up by the header and/or
     footer will be subtracted from the effective page length for music.

     Once  a   header  or   footer  length   is  defined,  then  the  Define
     Header/Footer will  be activated  on the Document menu. Selecting these
     will give  a small band for editing, and the only active modes here are
     F9 text mode and F10 edit mode for the entry and editing of text.

     However, unlike the normal text mode a special symbol; "@P" is defined.
     Placing this  in as  a word  as part  of the  text will  place the page
     number in this space. So for instance, giving the text

                    - Page @P -

     (terminating with Alt-M to centralise) in the footer will result in the
     page number appearing at the centre foot of each page as

                    - Page 1 -

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     etc.

     First page number

     The first  page number's  page does  not have  to be  1, it is settable
     before printing  with the menu command Esc Print First, and will remain
     at this value until a new file is loaded or altered.

     Note, however,  that the  first page number is stored with the file for
     printing next time the file is loaded.

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                           17. File saving and Loading


     Saving your work

     At any  stage in  the addition of music the file being worked on may be
     saved via  the File  menu. The menu sequence is Esc File Save and a new
     menu appears  offering the user the opportunity to define or change the
     output file  name. The  file will, however, always have an extension of
     .NW so that the program will recognise it on the choice menu.

     If a  file is  saved when another file of the same name exists then the
     old file is saved with the extension of  .BAK and the new one takes the
     .NW extension.

     There is  currently no  mechanism in  NoteWorthy to  load a  .BAK file,
     should you  need to  use a  .BAK file  then you  will need  to exit the
     program (or shell to DOS with Esc Go DOS) and rename the .BAK file with
     a suitable new name and .NW extension, eg

                    RENAME  MYFILE.BAK   OLDFILE.NW

     Saving parts of your score

     You can  save a range of systems to disk. Look carefully at the inverse
     coloured numbers  on the  left of  the system:  these give  the  system
     numbers within the whole document (or the values in the status line for
     System number).  Once you have defined the system to save then the menu
     command Esc  File Export will prompt for the system start and end and a
     file name to save to. The file will be saved with an extension of .NW$,
     the extra  $ indicating that it is a section of a piece rather than the
     whole score.

     Loading

     NoteWorthy can  only work  on one  file at once, so if you wish to load
     another file,  NoteWorthy will make sure you want to finish the current
     one by  reminding you  to save if you have not already done so. The new
     file is loaded with the menu commands Esc File Load.

     When loading a file, the file is selected from the usual file selection
     screen which is seen on program start-up.

     Starting a new piece

     To clear the score and start afresh, the menu command is Esc File New.

     Merging files into one document

     You can  merge smaller files into one large file with the menu sequence
     Esc File  Before or  Esc File  After, which  will merge a selected file
     before the  current stave  or after  it, respectively.  If the  current
     stave is  not the  first or  last in the system then the option will be
     greyed out as only complete systems can be saved and loaded.

     Deleting files

     There is  no direct  mechanism in  NoteWorthy for deleting music files.
     You can use the usual DOS delete command after the program has finished
     (or during  a shell  to DOS  (Esc Goto DOS)  command).  To  delete  the
     NoteWorthy file MYFILE issue the command

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                    DEL   MYFILE.NW

     Finishing

     The program is terminated by one of the commands

     Esc File Quit                      Quits  the   program.  Requires
                    confirmation if work is not  yet saved.

     Esc File EXit  Save and  exit.  Allows  a  new  file  name  to  be
                    specified  or  the  one  currently  in  use  to  be
                    confirmed.

     Changing target and source directory

     The current  working directory can be changed with the menu command Esc
     File Directory,  and selecting  directories and  disk drives  from  the
     screens provided.  Once the required target directory is shown then the
     option This dir  can be selected to return to the music editing screen.
     The directory will stay the selected directory until changed again.

     An alternative  way of changing directory for those who prefer it is to
     shell to  DOS with the menu sequence Esc Go DOS and issue a CD or CHDIR
     command directly.

     What is stored in the files on disk?

     Obviously the music! And so the size of the disk file representing your
     score will  depend upon the complexity of the work. Every object in the
     music occupies  space in  this file,  as well as parameters below which
     are stored in the file and will be replaced on reloading:

          1    The spacing  (1-5) which  you last  used to  create this
               music (default =3)

          2    The   pulse    you   last   defined   for   this   music
               (default=crotchet)

          3    The beaming angle you last defined (default =10+)

          4    The start page number for printing (default =1)

     Note that the following are not stored in each music file:

          a    Compression factor (default set to 20% when program starts)
          b    Page length (from initialisation file produced by NWSETUP)
          c    Printer type and port (ditto)
          d    Number of copies to print (default =1)
          e    Page range to print (default=all)

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                                  18. Printing


     Since the  whole point  of typing  in music is so that it can be saved,
     changed and  reprinted, NoteWorthy  provides printing  via  the   Print
     Menu.

     Selecting the  menu Esc  Print Print  generates  options  to  print  to
     printer or to file.

     The direct  printing options are self-explanatory and will be attempted
     via the  port LPT1,  LPT2 or  LPT3 as  specified to NWSETUP. Should the
     offer to  print to  file be  accepted then a second menu appears on the
     same screen  offering a  choice of formats: high or low density printer
     dump.

     Printer dumps  are useful  for multiple  printing of one file, when the
     time to  compose the  page can  be saved by printing to a dump file and
     later, after  exiting from  NoteWorthy, the  dump can  be copied to the
     printer directly with the DOS command

                    COPY   /B   MUSIC.DMP LPT1:

     (Note the "/B" is required as a NoteWorthy dump is a binary file).

     Beware however  that printer  dumps can  be several  hundred  kilobytes
     especially in high density mode!

     However the well-known PKZIP Shareware suite can compress these printer
     dumps into  a space  about 5%  of their  actual size,  and  print  them
     directly. Provided that PKZIP and PKUNZIP are in your current path, you
     can issue the DOS command

                    PKZIP   MUSIC   MUSIC.DMP -M

     which  will   compress  the  file  MUSIC.DMP  to  the  file  MUSIC.ZIP,
     afterwards deleting MUSIC.DMP (the "-M" option),

     Then the command

                    PKUNZIP   MUSIC   -PB

     will send this compressed file to the printer ("-PB"). See the programs
     from PKware  for full  details of  how this  works. Contact  your usual
     Shareware library.

     The print process

     Whether printing  to a printer or a file, the print process consists of
     two stages,  page composition  and the actual print. Depending how much
     conventional memory  is available in your computer, the printing may be
     done in  several 'stripes':  compose, print; compose, print; etc. While
     this is  happening there  is a  screen showing  the progress of each of
     these operations. The actual time to compose the page is very dependent
     on the  speed of your computer and the printing depends on the speed at
     which your  printer can  accept the  typical  megabyte  of  data  which
     NoteWorthy throws at it.


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     Occasionally it is necessary to abort a print, and it is important when
     this occurs that your printer should be left in a sensible state, ie at
     the end  of a  print scan.  Consequently the  Esc key can be pressed to
     abort, but  the actual termination may take some seconds after this. Be
     patient.

     Page length

     NoteWorthy defaults  to a  page size  of 10.8"  x 8"  which fits onto a
     standard A4  page (11.69" x 8.27") with reasonable margins. The maximum
     printing width  of 8"  cannot be  increased (although you can reduce it
     with Ctrl-L  and Ctrl-R on all the staves on the page). To define other
     page lengths  use the  command on  the Print  menu. Note  the following
     points, however:

     a    A page-printer which feeds A4 pages can never make use of the full
          limits of the paper as it needs some paper to hold on to. 10.8" is
          a limit  which seems  to work with most printers: if in doubt, see
          your  printer   manual  for   the  maximum  printable  region,  or
          experiment.

     b    Preview Mode  (Alt-F2) is  accurate for the layout and can be used
          to find  out exactly  where the  page breaks  will occur.  Bear in
          mind, however,  that the  preview is  of the printable area of the
          screen and there would be space at the top and bottom in addition.

     9-pin printouts on 24-pin printers

     While Laserjet  users may  quite  happily  use  low-density  prints  as
     'draft' prints  (although this  should be  quite unnecessary due to the
     WYSIWYG nature of NoteWorthy), there is an intrinsic problem with using
     low density  printouts from  high-density dot matrix printers. Since 9-
     pin printers  have a  vertical dot  pitch of 1/72", and high-density is
     1/180", it  is not  possible to do a perfectly proportioned print as 72
     doesn't go  into 180. Consequently 9-pin prints on 24-pin printers will
     be found  to be  vertically stretched  by about  20%, meaning  that the
     effective length  of an  11" page  is about  9" when  set in NWSETUP or
     defined from the print menu.

     Exporting to word-processors

     NoteWorthy has  the facility to produce files of part of the page which
     can be imported into your word-processor. This is selected from the Esc
     File PCX  menu, and when this is selected, a mode akin to Block Mode is
     selected whereby with the cursor or mouse you can mark a section of the
     screen for  printing. Once selected with the second press of Enter then
     four options are offered:

          a    High-resolution

          b    High-resolution inverse

          c    Low resolution

          d    Low resolution inverse

     Selecting high  resolution gives  better character shapes but is a much
     larger file,  while the  inverse options  are  given  because  Desk-Top
     Publishing systems  and Wordprocessors  are not  consistent  about  the
     format of  the  file:  white-on-black  or  black-on-white.  You  should
     experiment with your wordprocessor to see what is best for you.

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     Once a resolution is defined, then the program asks for a filename. The
     extension is .PCX so that your target system can recognise it.

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                                 19. Transposing


     NoteWorthy has  the ability to transpose a single stave or the complete
     page by  a semitone  either up  or down, and so repeated application of
     this will generate any reasonable transposition. The technique is self-
     explanatory and is accessed by the Esc Xpose menu.

     The procedure  may take  a little while (depending on the complexity of
     music and  the speed  of your computer) but the following points should
     be noted:

          1    The key  of 6 flats is used when transposing up from one
               flat and 6 sharps is used when transposing down from one
               sharp. In  this way  you can choose the key signature by
               "overrunning" and transposing back.

          2    All notes,  accidentals and  key signatures are changed.
               This is  not normally a problem, but many key-signatures
               become wider  when transposing  from, for  example,  one
               sharp to  six flats.  Some adjustment  in format  (by  a
               setting the  compression ratio  to about 5% - Esc Option
               Compression -  and compressing  right - Esc Stave Right)
               may be necessary.

          3    Sometimes the  program cannot  decide how  to  designate
               various notes  and accidentals. For instance some double
               flats  occurring   in  a   sharp  key  have  an  unclear
               destination accidental  when being  transposed down.  In
               this  case   the  program  will  leave  this  particular
               accidental  alone   and  warn  the  user  to  modify  it
               manually. This  could occur  a number  of times  in  one
               transposition, but  will only occur in these exceptional
               conditions.

          4    If there  is no  key signature then the program will not
               insert one.  Therefore it is a good idea when working in
               C major  to insert  an "dummy"  key signature  with  the
               keystrokes:

               K    Shift-K   Enter

               This results  in an  on-screen "key  signature"  of  one
               natural on  the centre stave. It will not be printed out
               when a print is requested.



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                               20. Using the Mouse


     While the  main  entry  of  music  to  NoteWorthy  remains  a  keyboard
     exercise,  provided  a  mouse  is  installed  then  numerous  ancillary
     operations are simpler with the mouse.

     Installing the mouse

     Since NoteWorthy  is a DOS product, the mouse must be loaded before the
     program starts.  Mouse drivers  are of two types: programs and drivers,
     with drivers being the older type.

     Many mouse  drivers are  supplied on  their own  installation disks: if
     this  is   so  then   simply  run  the  installation  program  on  your
     installation disk. Otherwise some guidelines are given here:

     If your  mouse program  has the  name MOUSE.SYS then it needs to have a
     line in the file CONFIG.SYS which reads

                    DEVICE=C:\MOUSE.SYS

     If you are using a version of DOS and a computer which supports loading
     device drivers  "high" then  this line  may read HIDEVICE=C:\MOUSE.SYS.
     Also the  directory where  the mouse  driver is situated may need to be
     changed.

     See your system documentation for more information.

     Most later  mouse drivers  are in  the form  of a  program file, called
     MOUSE.EXE (or  sometimes MOUSE.COM).  In this  case the  mouse  can  be
     started by running the program, usually with the command

                    MOUSE

     although sometimes the resident directory may need to be stipulated, as
     in

                    C:\MSMOUSE\MOUSE

     for instance.

     The best  place for this command is in the file AUTOEXEC.BAT so that it
     is available every time your computer is started.

     Windows users

     For Windows  users the  mouse must be loaded before Windows is started,
     so AUTOEXEC.BAT is the best place for the MOUSE command to be located.

     Mouse compatibility

     If NoteWorthy does not work perfectly with your mouse then it is likely
     to be  a driver  problem. NoteWorthy  adheres  strictly  to  the  mouse
     standards defined  by Microsoft  and so  if you are having problems you
     are advised to obtain a proper copy of the Microsoft driver.

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     Mouse shortcuts

     If the mouse is loaded then when NoteWorthy starts then a mouse toolbar
     can be  seen just  above the  status bar,  and also  the  normal  mouse
     pointer will be seen on screen.

     With a mouse the following features can be used:

     Clicking with  the right  mouse button  is in  most cases equivalent to
     pressing the Esc key, and so, for instance, enables and closes the menu
     bar.

     This menu  bar can  be clicked on with the normal left button to obtain
     operations, and aborted or closed with the right button.

     In non-menu  mode, clicking  on the  screen moves  the I-cursor  to the
     stave and position nearest the mouse cursor.

     Using the mouse in other modes

     Text Mode      Cursor is  a pencil. Clicking the left mouse button
                    will move the text cursor and any accompanying text
                    to the cursor.

                    Right mouse button aborts the mode.

     Edit Mode      Left selects  the object  nearest the mouse cursor,
                    dragging can move it.

                    Right button aborts.

     Line Mode      Cursor is a pencil. Left button defines a start and
                    end point.

                    Right terminates  the line  mode, aborting the last
                    moving line.

     Curve Mode     Cursor is  a pencil.  Left button defines an anchor
                    point.

                    Right terminates curve mode.

     Symbol Mode    Left first  defines the  symbol from the menu and a
                    second click places it.

                    Right button aborts the symbol mode.

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                         21. FREQUENTLY-ASKED QUESTIONS

     My alto and tenor parts have stems which overlap and get confused. What
     can I do?

          Move to  the bass  stave and press F6. The bottom stave moves down
          to leave  more room between staves. Sh-F6 moves the stave back up.
          As  you  press  F6  you  may  notice  parts  of  the  stave  above
          disappearing. See a question below on this.

     How do I put in a rehearsal marks such as a letter A in a box?

          Write the  A in text mode, and put a box round it in line mode, to
          get the  box the  right size.  If you  need another  on this page,
          delete the  A and use the Block Mode to copy the box to the places
          you want it, then fill the boxes with the letters you want.

          You can  use the  same method  to copy  complex objects  you  have
          created to  other positions  on the  music. For instance, in cello
          music there  is an  instruction to stop the string with the thumb,
          and the  symbol can be made up with a small circle with a vertical
          line above  (like an inverted lollipop). This can be made once and
          copied with block mode.

     I understand that, but I have lots of made-up symbols I want to use.
     What's the best way to use them?

          Make up  a dummy  single stave  with your  symbols on. Save it and
          give it the name TEMPLATE. Now you can load it somewhere into your
          music (File Merge), copy the symbols as required to various places
          in the score, and then delete it.

     I need to edit the middle note of a chord, and can't make it turn red
     when I press F10

          You can  edit many  objects in  edit mode, not just one. Press F10
          somewhere near  the chord  and press Ctrl-Right or Ctrl-Left until
          the note  you want  turns red,  then edit it as required. You only
          need to  press Enter  to finish  edit mode  when you have finished
          editing all the objects you want to change.

     I can't make some of my objects turn red when in edit mode, so can't
     edit them

          Whenever you  create an  object (eg  text or line or symbol) it is
          attached to  the stave you were on when you pressed F9, etc. (This
          ensures that  they will  move up  and down with the stave when you
          press F6  or justify  with the notes). Now if your objects are not
          turning red,  they're not  attached to  the current stave. Perhaps
          you were  on the  stave above when you added a symbol intended for
          the current  stave? You  can verify by moving the current stave up
          and down one unit to see what moves with it (F6, Sh-F6).

          It's best  if you  re-attach them to the current stave by deleting
          and re-creating, or in block mode: Enter block mode from the stave
          which contains  the objects;  enclose the  objects; press  PgDn to
          move to  the target  stave, and up/down arrows to move them within
          the stave. I suggest you save your work before you start something
          complicated!

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     I have the opposite problem - my notes are red and stay red when I
     press Ctrl-Right etc.

          Then you have multiple copies of the notes, lying exactly over the
          top of  each other! When in Edit Mode, press the Del key to delete
          one. By moving left and right you can find out how many duplicates
          you have and delete all but the last one.

     When I enclose objects in Block Mode I can't get them to turn red

          They're not  attached to  the stave  you're working  on.  See  the
          question about Edit Mode not turning red above.

     How do I make some room at the top of a page for a title?

          Press F5  to move  the music  down, and with the cursor on the top
          stave press F9 for text mode. Move the text cursor up, type in the
          title in  large font  and before  you complete  it, press Alt-M to
          place it  in the Middle. When its height is right you can complete
          the title and exit text mode.

          Beware however, that you have implicitly moved all the other music
          down and  some may  have dropped off the bottom of the page! Check
          with a preview, Alt-F2.

     How do I leave a gap above the title?

          When NoteWorthy  prints a page, it automatically makes the highest
          object on  the page  at the  top of the paper, and the position of
          everything else  follows. So  you can't  have an  empty gap at the
          top! However  you can  fudge this  by placing  a small object well
          above the  title (moving  the screen  up with F5 first). The small
          object may  be a  full stop  in text  mode, or  a tiny (even zero-
          length) line from Line Mode (F11).

     How do I make a chord with quavers?

          Simple - only the note on top is a quaver, the rest are crotchets!

          It takes  a while  to realise  that NoteWorthy is not intelligent:
          the symbols  are just  symbols on  paper: you  can break  all  the
          musical rules to get what you want to see!

     When I try to make an octave chord, the first note disappears when I
     press 'down'. Is it OK?

          Yes, it's  still there.  Have  faith.  If  you  need  to  reassure
          yourself, press F2 to redraw the stave.

     When I redraw the stave with F2, or when moving the stave up or down
     with F6, and also at other times, the stave above or below has bits cut
     off. Why?

          In order  to redraw  a stave, NoteWorthy 'wipes' the paper between
          the lowest  and highest  objects on the stave, then redraws it. It
          may be that the highest object on the current stave is higher than
          the lowest  on the  one above,  and if so, some of the stave above
          will be  wiped. If  this bothers  you,  redraw  with  Sh-F2  which
          redraws the whole screen.

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     My problem is worse than that, I lose a stave or two when I press F2 or
     F6.

          The problem  here is that part of the current stave lies above the
          stave above.  Or below  the stave  below. Perhaps you've created a
          symbol on,  say, on  stave 5 and moved the cursor above stave 4 to
          place it.  Now this  symbol is attached to stave 5 and so when you
          redraw stave 5 the "wiping" referred to above wipes out stave 4!

          The moral  is to make sure that the symbol is attached to the most
          relevant stave:  that way  when you  move stave  4 up or down they
          will go  with it,  and when  you justify  or compress  stave 4 the
          symbol will be moved to go with the music it refers to.

          If you  imported or reloaded music created by NoteWorthy 1 you may
          have text  or  lines  which  are  attached  to  the  wrong  stave:
          NoteWorthy 2  makes it  difficult to  attach text and lines to the
          wrong stave  but the  earlier version  this  was  possible  -  and
          common!

     My text is too high, I need to move it lower (or higher) on the stave.

          The quickest  way is  to use  Block Mode to highlight the text and
          then move  it up  or down.  You may find that the cursors move the
          text more accurately than the mouse does - mice tend to wander.

     I work in Windows, and NoteWorthy won't start: it says I haven't enough
     memory.

          You may have many megabytes in your computer, but DOS programs use
          conventional memory.  In fact  NoteWorthy needs  at least  512K of
          this.

          You need  to allocate  more DOS memory before Windows is run. This
          is a  rather specialised  area, but  basically you should load all
          device  drivers   "high"  in   CONFIG.SYS,  and   also   TSRs   in
          AUTOEXEC.BAT. If  you've never  edited CONFIG.SYS  before I advise
          you to  get expert  help. It's not difficult, but getting it wrong
          could leave you without a working system!

     How do I create a 12/8 time signature?

          Simply place a '1' and a '2' on the top line side-by-side with two
          separate presses of Alt-U.

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     How do I make triplets or other irregular groupings of notes?

          For triplet  quavers or other beamed notes the simplest is just to
          place a  '3' with  text mode over the beam. For crotchets or above
          you can place an angled line over with the '3' or even a curve!

     My printer prints out gobbledegook

          You're not  using the  right printer  driver. If  you're a Windows
          user you're  used to Windows looking after the printer driving for
          you, but  NoteWorthy is  a DOS  program and needs configuring. Run
          the NWSETUP  program (Windows  installation creates  an  icon  for
          this) and select another printer. You can quite safely run through
          all the  possible choices  on the  menu, trying  a sample printout
          each time until one works. (Be sure to 'Exit and Save'!) When your
          printer sends  rubbish, press Esc on the keyboard to halt printing
          and turn  your printer  off to avoid paper waste. If your computer
          then doesn't  respond, Press  Ctrl-Alt-Del to  reboot (or  halt in
          Windows).

          If no printer driver works, contact me.

     How can I use bits of NoteWorthy printout in my word-processor?

          The simplest way is via Windows.

     1    Print your  section of  music to  a .PCX  file (whether you choose
          inverse or  not depends  on your  word-processor -  experiment  to
          see).

     2    Import it  into your  word-processor (see  your WP  manual or help
          text)

          This is how this manual was created!

     How do I save a second copy of the program to floppy disk for backup?

          You could  do a  second save  to the  floppy disk by selecting Esc
          File Directory and drive A: first. Don't forget to re-select drive
          C (or whatever) afterwards.

          However, the  most convenient method may well be to make sure that
          you copy  all the  day's work  to a  backup (such as floppy disk).
          When you  exit NoteWorthy  you could  copy all  the  newly-created
          files to floppy disk with the DOS command    XCOPY  *.NW  A: /M

          The /M  will copy all the files which have not been backed up yet,
          and then  mark the  files as  having been  backed up (so that next
          time you  do this,  these particular files won't be copied again).
          Alternatively you  could use  the /A  switch rather  than /M which
          will copy  the same  files but not mark them as having been backed
          up. You  might do  this if you have a separate backup regime which
          copies all  today's files  to disk or tape. All this is to do with
          the 'Archive  Bit' on  every file  which marks whether it has been
          backed up yet. See your DOS manual for fuller information.

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                          APPENDIX A: The menu options


     This is a list of menu options available on the drop-down menus

     FILE

     New                 Create a  new music  file by wiping out the current
                         one. Asks permission if work has not been saved.

     Save                Save the current file in the current directory.

     Load                Load a new file by wiping out the current one. Asks
                         permission if work has not been saved.

     Merge Before        Loads a file from the selection menu and inserts it
                         before the  current stave.  Not  available  if  the
                         current stave is not the start of a system.

     Merge After         Loads a file from the selection menu and inserts it
                         after the  current  stave.  Not  available  if  the
                         current stave is not the last of a system.

     Quit                Finish the  program without saving. Asks permission
                         if work has not been saved.

     Exit                Finish the  program  by  saving  the  work  in  the
                         current directory.

     Export              Requests  a   first  and  last  system  number  and
                         filename  and   saves  this  in  a  file  with  the
                         extension .NW$ on the current directory.

     Directory           Change current directory or disk drive.

     PCX                 Print a  section of  the current  screen into a PCX
                         file for  later use  in a  word-processing or other
                         package.

     DOCUMENT

     Define Header       Define header  contents. Not  available  if  header
                         size still set at zero.

     Define Footer       Define footer  contents. Not  available  if  footer
                         size still set at zero.

     Header size         Define header size in inches.

     Footer size         Define footer size in inches.

     Background          Repeated pressing  of this  B key  will  cycle  the
                         background colour  through a  range. This colour is
                         saved  in   the  initialisation  file  so  will  be
                         effective on future runs until changed.

     Foreground          Press F to change the foreground colour likewise.

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     STAVES

     Append              Add  a   new  system   below  the   last  one.  The
                         construction of  the new system will be the same as
                         the   last    one   in   the   document.   Keyboard
                         shortcut=Ctrl-N

     Insert above        Insert one stave above the current stave.

     Insert below        Insert one stave below the current stave.

     System with stave below  Bind the  current stave  to the  system below.
                         Disabled if the current stave is already bound.

     Separate from below Unbind from  the stave  below. Disabled  if already
                         unbound.

     Bracket with stave  Bracket the current stave with that below. Disabled
                         if already bracketed.

     Remove bracket      Unbracket  the   current  stave  from  that  below.
                         Disabled if not bracketed.

                         The last  four operations  can all  be accessed  by
                         repeated pressing of the [ shortcut key.

     Compress left       Compresses the  whole system  left from the current
                         cursor  by  the  compression  percentage  given  in
                         Options.

     Compress right      Compresses the  whole system right from the current
                         cursor  by  the  compression  percentage  given  in
                         Options.

     Justify             Takes the  part of  the system  to the right of the
                         cursor and expands it so that the last object is at
                         the very end of the defined width.

     Indent left         Takes the  current cursor position and cuts off the
                         each stave  of the current system to its left. Will
                         not operate  if there  are objects on this stave to
                         the left of the cursor.

     Indent right        Takes the  current cursor position and cuts off the
                         each stave of the current system to its right. Will
                         not operate  if there  are objects on this stave to
                         the right of the cursor.

     Delete              Deletes  this  stave.  Will  request  verification.
                         Shortcut = Del

     More space above    Moves this stave down, together with all the staves
                         below. Keyboard shortcut = F6

     Less space above    Moves this  stave up,  together with all the staves
                         above. Keyboard shortcut=sh-F6

     Add page break      Add a forced page break after this system. If there
                         is already  a forced  page break  then  the  option
                         changes to "remove page break"

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     TRANSPOSE

     All up              Transposes  the   whole  music   up  one  semitone,
                         adjusting   accidentals    and    key    signatures
                         accordingly.

     All down            Transposes  the  whole  music  down  one  semitone,
                         adjusting   accidentals    and    key    signatures
                         accordingly.

     This stave up       Transposes this stave only up one semitone.

     This stave down     Transposes this stave only down on semitone.

     VIEW

     Full Screen         Toggles zoom mode. Keyboard shortcut=F3

     Preview             Enters preview mode. Keyboard shortcut=alt-F2

     Redraw              Redraws the whole screen. Keyboard shortcut=F2

     Repaginate          Evaluates  the   positions  of   the  page   breaks
                         according to page length given.

     PRINT

     Print to printer or file Prints the  currently selected  music  in  the
                         currently selected  page range,  with the currently
                         selected number  of copies  to the current printer.
                         The menus  which subsequently appear allow the user
                         to select  output to  file or printer. If a file is
                         chosen then  a printer  dump file  is created,  see
                         page 32.

     Printer type        Allows the  printer to  be changed,  so  that,  for
                         instance, a  printer dump  could be  created for  a
                         printer other  than that  for which the printer has
                         been defined  by NWSETUP. This setting is not saved
                         when the  program finishes,  but  does  remain  set
                         until that time.

     Specify Pages       The range of pages to print can be specified. Enter
                         the range  as  numbers  separated  by  hyphens  and
                         commas, eg "1-5,6-9,12". If the input is given as a
                         blank, then  the page  range is taken as "all". The
                         default is "all".

     First Page          This is  a number  which is  added (less  1) to the
                         page number  field in headers or footers, so that a
                         page range  of (eg)  1-5 can be specified, but with
                         First Page  at 10,  this would be printed as 10-14.
                         If there are no "@P" fields in the header or footer
                         then this value is not used.

     Number of copies    Allows more than one copy to be printed. Default is
                         1.

     Page Length         So that  the page length can be changed temporarily
                         along the  same lines as Printer Type above. Option
                         not saved when program halts.

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     Printer Port        Allows temporary change, as page length and printer
                         type. Value is not saved when program halts.

     OPTIONS

     Note Length         The default  not length can be altered by selecting
                         here. Shortcut keys are 1 to 8.

     Note Stem           Alter the  default note  stem. Shortcut keys are J,
                         P, I and O.

     Pulse               Change the  pulse (see  page 26).  The pulse can be
                         set at any value from Semibreve to Demisemiquaver.

     Spacing             Change the default spacing, 1-5. See page 26.

     Beaming Angle       Change the default value. See page 26.

     Compression         Change  the  percentage  compression  effective  in
                         compress left and right operations. See page 26ff.

     Noises/Silent       Allows noise  or silent  running, and  this setting
                         remains  in  effect  until  changed  again  or  the
                         program finishes.

     List Options        Show the available options.

     MODE

     Text                Enter text mode. Keyboard shortcut=F9

     Edit                Enter edit mode. Keyboard shortcut=F10

     Line                Enter line mode. Keyboard shortcut=F11

     Curve               Enter curve mode. Keyboard shortcut=F12

     Block               Enter block mode. Keyboard shortcut=F8

     Symbol              Enter symbol mode. Keyboard shorcut=Ctrl-F12

     Select Font         Allows direct  selection of  the current  font  for
                         text mode.  Equivalent  to  choosing  via  F9  when
                         starting text mode.

     GO TO

     System              Allows direct movement to a given system

     Page                Allows direct movement to a given page

     DOS                 Allows the  user to  shell to  DOS  to  allow  file
                         renaming, copying, backup etc.

     Top                 Move to the top of the score.

     End                 Move to the last system in the score.

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                         APPENDIX B: NWSETUP and NW2.INI


     The program  NWSETUP, when  run (simply  type the  command  NWSETUP  or
     Windows users  click the  Setup icon),  places a file called NW2.INI on
     the current directory of the disk. This file is read by NoteWorthy when
     it starts up, and contains a list of the parameters which are needed to
     customise your system for this package.

     When the  program is run, a menu appears on the left where items can be
     selected with  the up  and down  arrow keys  and Enter.  On  selection,
     submenus will  appear and  responses selected  in a similar manner. The
     box at the bottom of the screen contains the current settings.

     When the  selection is  complete the  'Finish' option  can be selected,
     with the 'Save and Exit' option. This will cause the file NW2.INI to be
     saved to the current directory.

     If you  have a  monochrome screen and the text is hard to read then the
     program can be forced to run in Monochrome mode with the command

                    NWSETUP   MONO



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                        Appendix C: For Computer Novices


     In DOS,  file names consist of two parts, the name (up to 8 characters)
     and the  extension (up to 3 characters following a full stop). The idea
     is that  the file  extension gives some clue as to the nature or use of
     the file,  and  the  name  its  contents  or  function.  Thus  all  the
     NoteWorthy program files have names of "NW" and varying extensions. All
     the music  files which  it produces  have names  which you  can  define
     yourself, but  extensions of ".NW". Thus the file selection screen only
     searches for files with extension ".NW".

     Your hard disk (probably drive C) is structured into directories, which
     have a  name of up to 8 characters. This allows groups of related files
     to be stored together, and can include directories-within-directories.

     The best  way to  organise your  NoteWorthy system  is to place all the
     program files  into a  directory called  C:\NW2 (that  is, its  name is
     "NW2", and  it's on drive C at the very top of the directory tree), and
     the  files   grouped  in   subdirectories  off   this   directory,   eg
     C:\NW2\SONGS, C:\NW2\PIANO, C:\NW2\VIOLIN, etc.

     For a  DOS user,  the relevant computer commands you could use here are
     COPY, MD  (make directory) and CD (change directory). Windows users can
     perform all these operations with the File Manager.

     DOS users:  After you  have installed  your system, you can move to the
     NoteWorthy directory by typing

                    CD \NW2

     and create subdirectories with (eg)

                    MD  SONGS
                    MD  PIANO
                    MD  VIOLIN

     Now you  are "sitting  in" the  C:\NW2 directory  and you  can run  the
     NoteWorthy setup program by typing

                    NWSETUP

     and answering  the  questions.  This  leaves  a  file  NW2.INI  in  the
     directory for the program to use.

     Run NoteWorthy by typing NW2 or from Windows click the icon.

     and at  the file  selection screen  (see page  5) you can move into the
     required directory by selecting the directory SONGS\, PIANO\ or VIOLIN\
     before selecting New File or loading an old file.

     These notes are not intended to be a substitute for your DOS or Windows
     manual, but  they may  get you  started quickly. Don't forget to keep a
     second backup copy of all your NoteWorthy files, either by copying them
     to floppy  disk or  some other  way. One thing is certain: one day your
     hard disk  will fail  and you  will probably  lose all  your hard  work
     unless you have backed up your data.

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                           Appendix D: Names and Paths


     Files and Functions

     The following  files are  created on your directory by the installation
     process:



     Vital files - the system will not run without these:

     NW2.EXE        The main program
     NW2.OVL        and its overlay (must be kept together)
     NW2.HLP        Help file
     NW2.F08        ) These are the high-density printer fonts, and the
     NW2.F13        ) program will not print in 24-pin or 300dpi modes
     NW2.F24        ) without them.
     NW2.F55        ) Definition files for the large text font
     NW2.F99        }


     Optional files

     NW2.TUT        On-line tutorial
     NW2.ADD        Addenda to manual (shift-F1)



     Ancillary programs

     NWSETUP.EXE    NWSETUP program, creates file NW2.INI in current
                    directory.

     If the  file NW2.INI  is not  in the  directory from  which you run the
     program then  the directory containing the program NW2.EXE is searched.
     If this does not contain the file then certain defaults are assumed:

     Monitor:       EGA/VGA/Hercules as found in the system, colour
                    assumed unless Hercules.
     Printer:       Epson
     Density:       Low
     Keyboard:      Enhanced (AT)
     No page throw after printing
     No keyboard speed-up
     Printer port:  LPT1
     Page length:   10.8"

     All data files (NW2.HLP, NW2.TUT, NW2.ADD) are treated in the same way,
     ie the  program first  searches the current directory and failing that,
     the source directory.

     In addition,  the program  uses temporary files which should be deleted
     on exit,  but might  due to  an error, be left on the disk. These files
     have names

     ERASE.ME,  ERASE.ME2,  DELETE.ME,  DELETE.ME2

     and can safely be erased after the program has run.

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                   Appendix E - Making the program run faster


               A. Keyboard  speed moving  a bar  and placing  it on  another
               stave or generally reducing the complexity of the score.

     Transposition Error

               See the section on transposing on page 35.

     Undo turned off due to lack of disk space

               When NoteWorthy performs a justification, compression or edit
               (F10) it first saves the current line in a disk file in order
               that the  user can undo his operation with F7 later. If there
               is insufficient  disk space  to save  this  stave  then  this
               message appears and the undo operation is not available.

               You could free up some disk space by shelling to DOS (Esc F2)
               and deleting .BAK files:

                    DEL  *.BAK



     Program Failure

     NoteWorthy is  a program  under continual  development, and,  like  all
     software (though  many authors or software houses do not admit it) will
     probably  contain  residual  errors  or  'bugs'.  Hopefully  these  are
     minimal, but  should   a fatal program error occur then the screen will
     clear and  a cryptic  message appear  highlighting the  area within the
     program at which the error occurred. But more usefully, from the user's
     point of  view, it offers to attempt to save your work. If you answer Y
     to this  question  then  the  current  file  is  saved  with  the  name
     ERROR$$$.NW, which  you could rename (RENAME   ERROR$$$.NW   MYFILE.NW)
     and so attempt to salvage.

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                            Appendix F - note styles


     The key  0 (number  zero) may  be pressed  a number  of  times  in  the
     creation or  editing of a note. This alters the style in ways dependent
     on the actual duration of the note. The symbols available are

          1    Small notes.  Quavers etc can be beamed together just as
               for normal notes

          2    Open-headed tailed  notes. These  can be used for shakes
               by beaming them

          3    Crossed crotchets  (and longer).  Up to 2 strikethroughs
               are available,  if  more  are  required  then  they  are
               available with the symbols under symbol mode.A

          4    Cross-headed notes, again beaming is possible.

     Note that  beaming is  not possible  between notes of differing styles,
     and beams must be removed before editing.

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                Appendix G: Removing Noteworthy from your system


     When you  installed NoteWorthy,  you created a directory on a hard disk
     drive which  contained all  the program  files, and  you may have since
     added a  configuration  file  (NW2.INI)  and  music  files  (*.NW)  and
     possibly subdirectories  to contain  other music  files as  detailed in
     Appendix C.

     Whether you  installed via  DOS or Windows, no other files in any other
     directories will  have  been  modified  by  the  installation  process.
     Specifically your  AUTOEXEC.BAT and  CONFIG.SYS files  are not altered,
     and Windows  users can  be assured that no extra files have been placed
     in any Windows directories, neither are WIN.INI or SYSTEM.INI modified.

     Consequently a  de-installation of  NoteWorthy is  very simple.  If you
     wish to  preserve your  music files  (*.NW) then  copy them to a floppy
     disk or  other backup  medium. Then you are free to delete all files in
     the NoteWorthy directory and subdirectories (if you have created any).

     For instance,  let us  suppose you selected the default installation so
     that your  NoteWorthy files  are in  C:\NW2 and  you have  created  one
     subdirectory SONGS containing music files.

     To backup the music files

     Issue the DOS command

                    XCOPY  C:\NW2\*.NW  A:  /S

     to copy  all *.NW  files to  floppy drive A: and include subdirectories
     (/S).

     Make sure  that you  do not  receive any  error messages  such as "Disk
     Full" to  indicate a  failure of  backup! If your files will not fit on
     one disk  then you  may have  to copy them individually (see Frequently
     Asked Questions).

     Now you are ready to delete the subdirectory SONGS:

                    DEL  C:\NW2\SONGS\*.NW

     and remove the SONGS directory:

                    RD  C:\NW2\SONGS

     If this  operation does  not work,  it probably indicates that you have
     other files  in SONGS  besides NoteWorthy  music files.  You had better
     back these up to floppy disk too!

     Now we  are ready  to delete the main NoteWorthy directory. In assuming
     that you  have backed  up any non-NoteWorthy files you may have created
     there:
                    DEL  C:\NW2\*.*

     and remove it with

                    RD  C:\NW2
