Multiple windows and Excerpt

Multiple windows

NtEd allowes you to open as many windows as you want. This is useful if you want to compare two different scores or if you want to copy parts of one score to another score. To open a new window choose:

FileNew Window

a new window appears:

A new window

With the new window you can do all you could do with the first one. If you want to copy/paste between different windows please make shure both windows are in edit mode (see The 3 modes):

copy/paste between 2 windows

See also: Block instructions.

To delete a window choose:

FileClose Window

Extract a subset of staves

NtEd allows you to copy a subset of staves into the 2nd window. To do this choose:

FileExcerpt ...

The staff selection dialog appears:

The staff selection dialog

Select the subset of ataves, to be copied. To select more than 1 staff press Ctrl during selection. To select a range of staves press and hold Shift. Then select the first and the last staff of the range.

Press Ok! The subset of staves is copied into a 2nd window:

the excerpt