Alter note lenghts and OpenOffice implementation
When I have like 4 eighth notes, let's say all e, and on the first is also a half note like c, I can just put it as an eighth note and make it look like a half note, but it's not yet possible to alter it's lenght to make it sound like one. Since I don't want to use ties in my transcription, it would be nice if there could be an option for that in the note edit menu.
Moreover a feature to simply implement parts of notation via select-copy-paste to a OpenOffice formular editor or something similar would be really great! Since I'm studying musicology I often like to insert some notes in a term paper and doing it all by cutting out the parts from screenshots is extremly troublesome.
There was OOomusescore, but I actually can't seem to find it and don't know if it would to the trick.
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It's not very clear in your first paragraph, but if I understand what you're asking for, you need to use Voices .
To insert notation into OpenOffice using MuseScore 1.0, you need a screenshot utility. I use GreenShot , a free open source Windows one. Take a shot of what you want to insert, save it as an image, and drop it into OpenOffice. The next version of MuseScore will have a screenshot utility built in. You can test it by loading one of the nightlies through the Download link, though they are still somewhat unstable and not designed for important work.
In reply to It's not very clear in your by newsome
Ah, I see, voices helps me out there, if i can turn both stems up, but that should be no problem I guess.
But even with a screenshot utility I would still have to insert the key signature and clef manually, wouldn't I?
In reply to Thx by Paco_
You mean, if you wanted to cut a section out of the middle of a score, you'd need to add the clef and key signature? You would if you needed there to be a clef and key signature, yes. Or you could simply cut and paste the section to the beginning of a new scratch score. Or create a score that had the excerpts you wanted and nothing else.
In reply to Thx by Paco_
Also, you can turn stems up by clicking on the note with the down stem and pressing X.
In reply to Stems by newsome
Right . But I should also mention, this would normally be considered "incorrect" notation. If you are trying to show a note being held out for two beats in one "voice" but also being played as part of an eighth as pat of another "voice", you are normally *supposed* to have opposing stems. Not only that, but there should also be two different noteheads - one solid, one open. That's not something unique to MuseScore; that's how music has been notated for centuries. So there would have to be a very special reason for not doing it this way. But if you do indeed have such a special reason, then yes, "X" allows you to break the ordinary rules of notation in this way.
I typed OOomusescore into the search box on the right hand side of the page and it returned three results. Here's one of them: http://musescore.org/en/node/6509
In reply to I typed OOomusescore into the by David Bolton
FWIW, as I've mentioned elsewhere, I actually the most efficient way to get notation into Word documents is to create the notation using the ABC language directly within the body of the document. I have written a set of macros that can automatically convert that to notation using the wonderful abcm2ps utility and insert the resulting graphic into the score, and then also let you easily turn it back into ABC to edit it, all without leaving Word. Here's a link to a page where you can download macros themselves if you're interested in trying them out:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/abcusers/files/abc%20utilities/
Obviously, though, you need to learn ABC to be able to use these. I suppose it takes the right mindset to find this easier than copy and pasting between applications, but I've done quite a bit of this stuff over the years,and I've always found the cut-and-paste approach to be fine for quick and dirty use but to to be a maintenance nightmare for larger scale projects. For example, if I want to update the examples in a book I wrote 15 years ago.