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<html><head><title>Adjusting Notation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="kde-default.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.67.2"><meta name="keywords" content="Rosegarden, sequencer, MIDI, audio, music, notation, score, KDE"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="The Rosegarden Handbook"><link rel="up" href="notation-view.html" title="Chapter�10.�The Notation editor"><link rel="prev" href="nv-paste-types.html" title="Paste types"><link rel="next" href="nv-interpret.html" title="Interpreting Performance Cues in Notation"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name="GENERATOR" content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.13 using libxslt"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div style="background-image: url(top-middle.png); width: 100%; height: 131px;"><div style="position: absolute; right: 0px;"><img src="top-right-konqueror.png" style="margin: 0px" alt=""></div><div style="position: absolute; top: 25px; right: 100px; text-align: right; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #fff 0px 0px 5px; color: #444">Adjusting Notation</div></div><div style="margin-top: 20px; background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div style="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><a accesskey="p" href="nv-paste-types.html">Prev</a></div><div style="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><a accesskey="n" href="nv-interpret.html">Next</a></div><div class="navCenter">The Notation editor</div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="nv-adjustments"></a>Adjusting Notation</h2></div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="nv-adjustments-note-rest-durations"></a>Adjusting note and rest durations</h3></div></div></div><div class="sect3" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="nv-normalize-rests"></a>Normalizing rests</h4></div></div></div><p>Sometimes as a result of editing or quantization
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operations, a piece of notation can end up with incorrect
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rest durations for the current time signature. You can use
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the <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenu">Adjust</span></span>-><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenuitem">Rests</span></span>-><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenuitem">Normalize Rests</span></span> function to
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fix these. This examines each sequence of
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consecutive rests found in the selection, and adjusts,
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splits and merges rests as necessary to ensure that the
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rests have theoretically correct durations and fall on the
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</p><p>For example, a 4/4 bar containing a crotchet
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(quarter-note), then a minim (half-note) rest and a
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crotchet rest will be rearranged to place the crotchet
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rest first, as the minim rest should not cross the
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central beat boundary of the bar.
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</p></div><div class="sect3" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="nv-make-viable"></a>Splitting very long notes</h4></div></div></div><p>The
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<span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenu">Adjust</span></span>-><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenuitem">Notes</span></span>-><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenuitem">Tie Notes at
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Barlines</span></span> is intended to deal
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with notes that have excessively long durations, and
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therefore overflow barlines or are too long to be
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displayed as a single note. It takes any such notes and
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splits them into shorter, tied notes.
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</p></div><div class="sect3" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="nv-de-counterpoint"></a>Splitting overlapping notes</h4></div></div></div><p>The
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<span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenu">Adjust</span></span>-><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenuitem">Notes</span></span>-><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenuitem">Split-and-Tie Overlapping Chords</span></span> function can be used to turn "counterpoint" notes into a series of split-and-tied notes and chords.</p><p>It can be applied to a selection that contains
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overlapping notes. It will split overlapping notes at the
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point where they overlap, and tie together the resulting
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split notes, ensuring that the music takes the form of a
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series of chords and/or single notes starting and ending in
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neat blocks, with some notes possibly tied.
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</p></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2560752"></a>Repositioning notation elements</h3></div></div></div><p>
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You may occasionally wish to to nudge the positioning of some
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element of notation that Rosegarden's layout algorithm has not
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placed in an optimal location. Use Ctrl-click and drag to move slurs, hairpins,
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text events, and several other sorts of events. You may not reposition notes in
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