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I have just purchased Composer
I have just purchased Composer 2.5.2 and read the User Guide (which is excellent!). I am trying to add lyrics to a internet midi which I have opened in Composer. The lyrics are from a a Notepad file in my XP/documents. I am trying to use the copy/paste procedure described in secs 5.1.6 and 6.2.7(importing the Notepad lyrics into the midi score in Composer) After many attempts I did partially succeed once, but have not been able to do it again. I think the problem is that I do not understand what the windows and Composer clipboards do, how and where they do it, or how I find them. I have copied/pasted many times in other documents, but have never been aware that clipboards have anything to do with it. I seem to have become involved in windows Word, which I never use I do not want to have any involvement with windows unless I have to. Will appreciate any help as I am dead in the water now. Thanks.
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Howdy Ron,
I'm glad tha
Howdy Ron,
I'm glad that you're enjoying Composer, and have found the User Guide to be helpful! Any time you use a "Edit -> Copy" (Ctrl + C, or other "copy" command) or "Edit -> Paste (Ctrl + V, or other "paste" command), you're making use of a "virtual clipboard." It's just a term that is used to say that "your computer now has the information that you copied sitting on it's 'clipboard', and it's ready for you to paste it in where ever you want to." Does this help to understand how the copy/paste mechanism works to get lyrics from one type of file (eg. a .txt file) into another type of file (your .not song file)? You mentioned that you're using Word. This may introduce some trickiness, because there are some items (eg. carriage returns, line breaks) that Word hides when you're viewing a file, but that get copied (and entered) as well when you copy/paste. These little "extras" can make for some interesting situations To keep things simpler, please try using Notepad (typically found in Programs/Accessories) for copy/pasting lyrics into .not song files in Composer. If the above suggestions don't help, please feel free to post copies of the text file and the song file, and we'll give 'em a try here to see if maybe there's some problem that needs to be addressed with the file itself. ttfn, Sherry |
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Thanks for the quick reply She
Thanks for the quick reply Sherry. Sounds like the clipboard concept is not something I have to bother my head about. Here are a couple more thoughts:
-The User Guide seems to distinguish between what the windows clipboard will do and what the Composer clipboard will do (see sec 5.1.6 p249 pdf). I take it from this section that I can add all of a song's lyrics to a Composer transcription from Notepad in the usual copy/paste manner (i.e. click copy in the Notepad screen and then click paste in the Composer screen. Trouble is that it is not working for me. Possibly I do not completely understand the mechanics of using the copy/paste method. -The only reason I used Word is because I stumbled into it while I was thrashing around, and I did manage to copy the lyrics to the transcription, but then lost them again. At least I think Word played some role. I have all my lyrics on Notepad saved to my documents folder as txt files. Is there a better way? -I will try and post copies of the text and song files as you sugessted. |
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