About NWC and PYNWC

You can’t run PYNWC on its own. Nothing will happen. It has to be installed and run in NWC (NoteWorthy Composer), a music notation software for Windows computers.

About NWC

With NWC you can create, record, edit, print and play back your own musical scores in pure music notation.

One interesting feature in NoteWorthy Composer is the User Tool mechanism. It allows you to write your own user tools and share them on the NoteWorthy Composer Forum, where they can be downloaded by other users of NWC.

You can install and run these tools within the NWC application:

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About PYNWC

PYNWC is a user tool I wrote for NWC, but a special one. In fact, it consists itself of several tools within its own ‘environment’:

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Since for NWC it’s a normal user tool, you can install and then run it within NWC, after opening an NWC file (score). After invoking it, you come in the PYNWC environment.

Within this environment you can:

  • see information about the score

  • see help information about PYNWC

  • select a tool

  • see help information about the selected tool

  • see and change parameters for the selected tool

  • run the selected tool

  • see the results after running a tool (before saving)

  • save the changes (if any) to the score in the input file

  • depending on the tool:

    • save the changed score as another NWC file

    • save a generated report into a txt file

    • save a generated worksheet into a xlsx file