Guido Gonzato writes:
>While I'm at it, I may just as well ask for more. Imagine a scheme like
>this: a SATB choral part and a piano/organ accompaniment. The SATB staves
>could be linked by tall bar lines, but not the piano part. So, something
>like:
>
This may be a question of language. I've recently been going into
MusiXTeX, to find what has to be done to make multistaves and lyrics
easier in abc2mtex. I found that MusiXTeX organizes the staves in an
interesting way. Before defining staves, they define instruments (with
orchestral scores in mind, of course.) Then each instrument is assigned
one or several staves. This gives a way of associating certain staves.
There are some things that can be done with staves associated
to the same instrument that can't be done with staves of different
instruments: barred note groups can cross staves, voices can go from one
staff to another, and presumably, one instrument can have tall barlines
while the others have short ones, although I haven't checked that last.
This idea may be useful for abc.
While I'm at it, I think it may also be useful to have invisible
bar lines. These could be used in difficult cases to aid the alignment
of notes between staves carrying different voices, or having different
meters (in polyrhythmic music) or when there is M:none, or when for some
other reason there were no barlines at all in one staff, as in some early
music. An alternative is some sort of tab stop that one can put in the
music to align the notes.
Cheers,
John Walsh
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