NoteWorthy Composer

[3][4] Version 2 of NWC introduced a textual representation of the file format called NWCTXT.

Staff systems are visually broken to fit margins during page layout, allowing many possibilities at "print time", when parts and scores can be laid out.

On older hardware, this presents performance advantages over the WYSIWYG behavior of other editors because it minimizes the necessary rendering of particularly large scores.

[6] Because of the availability of a free viewer, Noteworthy has been adopted as the standard score distribution format by the large hymn database, Hymnary.org.

[7] An "unofficial" catalog of composition files contributed by users is available from the NoteWorthy Scriptorium.