Dear fellow typesetters.
For my M-Tx typesetting of choral- and recorder ensemble music I use to prepend the scores by a 'pseudo bar' containing voice ranges for each part indicated with solid note-heads only. Until now I've been implementing that by setting blind rests in that bar and using in-line musixtex for drawing the voice ranges. I've been using \zcharnote with absolute vertical positioning of \znq.
However, for a madrigal by Marcello Tosone (see the Icking Archive Tosone index) I wanted to supply 2 different separate parts for the Alto part, one in actual pitch for singers and one an octave higher for treble recorders (recorder notation is another discussion!). I also wanted the range indication to be automagically transposed. For that purpose I've developed a couple of musixtex macros doing what I want. You'll find them in the input file, mysetup.tex, used for this typesetting. The macros allow you to transpose the score to another key including the range indications.
Among my needs is to surround some of the range indication noteheads, possibly preceded by accidentals, by parentheses. It turns out that the musixtex macros \lpar and \rpar fail if noteheads have accidentals. Therefore I've also added my own 'home-spun' macros \Lpar and \Rpar that require explicite parameters for their due horizontal positioning. These macros are referenced by a special version of the voice macros.
I'm interested in comments and suggestions for improvement of the macros in question.
Best regards -- Christian Mondrup, Sheet Note Editor Werner Icking Music Archive http://icking-music-archive.org/ _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
