Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

[Urs Liska]

Am 27.11.2012 10:11, schrieb Xavier Noria:
> 2. Whole notes and rests are kind of flushed to the left. It's been
> many years since I did music but if I am not mistaken it was customary
> to have them centered... is there a way to center them?
I'm embarrassed that I don't exactly know when and where, but there 
actually _were_ times when notes were placed in the middle of the time 
they are supposed to fill.
You can even find it in _handwritten_ 19th century scores.
For example look at the last measure in this Schubert manuscript: 
http://www.schubert-online.at/activpage/manuskripte.php?werke_id=253&werkteile_id=&image=MH_00122_D648_052.jpg&groesse=100&aktion=einzelbild&bild_id=51

[Another practice was to place the prolongation dots not directly after 
the note but at the horizontal position where the next note normally 
would be placed (which is quite irritating to read)]

But you wouldn't have this kind of notation in printed scores, and 
surely not in anything from the 20th century.

Best
Urs