I am trying to add a new Note Head set (modifying a clone). Any combination of + or ++ (new, new from selection) in either the Category column or the Notehead Set area seems to edit both the original and the new notehead set. How do I create from selection and have it not change the original Notehead Set?
The first rule of working with notehead sets is never modify a notehead with a name you didn’t invent. When you go to Library > Notehead Sets, select a factory-supplied notehead set in the left column and click the button New from Selection, you create a new notehead set containing a collection of factory-supplied noteheads. If you modify one of these noteheads, you get a red triangle warning that this notehead is now modified in every notehead set in which it appears. To avoid getting a red triangle, follow these steps:
- Select the factory-supplied notehead in your notehead set that you want to modify.
- Memorize its name.
- Click the New from Selection button in the second column to make a copy of this notehead.
- Give the copy a unique name.
- Click the Edit Notehead button and modify the copy.
- Search through your notehead set until you find the notehead with the name you memorized in step 2.
- Click the Remove Notehead from Set button. This button looks like the letter U with an arrow coming out of it.
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Thank you once again John! I was actually trying to add to the noteheads you created in an answer you gave to another question (mixing tablature and standard notation in a single system). After following these instructions about 20 times, I figured out I needed one more step: the “Remove Notehead from Set” is greyed out between steps 6) and 7) until I exit “Edit Notehead Sets” and go back in; annoying, but I finally managed to copy one of the numeric noteheads you created and add a new number. But I still have one more issue, for 2 digit numbers, I can’t widen the white box behind the digits: it seems to have the aspect ratio fixed at 1:1. Any idea how I might fix this?
The white box behind the digits is made from the Unicode block character U+2586, which you can copy to the clipboard from this webpage. To add another white box in the Edit Notehead dialog, click on the Text tab in the upper right corner, click in the box which says Enter text here, paste the block character from the clipboard, click on the Add Text button, and change the Color property of the block character to white. To add a digit in the same dialog, click on the Glyph tab in the upper right corner, change the Font to Lato Semibold, click on the digit you want in the glyph boxes, click on the Add Glyph button, change the Y-Scale property to 50, and decrease the X-Offset property to move the digit over the white box(es).
Many thanks! I never would have figured out Lato Semibold - I was trying to reverse engineer the library XML and I do see it in there. But the Unicode character is not in there in any form I can recognize, so thanks again!