[Rosegarden-user] help with notation editing

[Jared <lis...@le...>]

Hello, everyone.  I'm a new Rosegarden user, and I'm having some trouble
getting notes laid out correctly in the editor.

Here's what I'm trying to do (mock-up made with GIMP):
http://www.legroom.net/public/desired.png

With Rosegarden, here's the best I've been able to get so far:
http://www.legroom.net/public/current.png

The problem, as you can see, is with the notes in the bottom staff.
Actually, there are two problems:

1. I couldn't figure out how to add these notes in the notation editor at
all.  Everytime I tried to add the eight note, it kept trying to overwrite
the quarter note.  I tried using the shift key as I'd seen mentioned
elsewhere, but that didn't help.  How can I add overlapping notes like this
in the notation editor?

2. I was finally able to get what you see in current.png done using the
matrix editor.  When I play it back it *sounds* correct, but *looks* very
wrong.  How can I edit this so that the two overlapping notes on the bottom
staff are placed in the correct location?

Thanks.  I should also probably mention that I'm fairly new to this kind of
editing, with my only other experience coming from Cakewalk Pro Audio many
years ago, so please forgive me if some of my terminology is off.  :-)

--
Jared