Thanks again for all the valuable tips and advice, especially to Hal, who sent me a few sample files.
Here's what I ended up doing for now, with the ossia tool:
http://www.philomela.net/ex/range_finders.gif
It might be considered a bit ambiguous, since the notes of the range are to be read in the clef that follow them, and not in that of the incipit. But I want them to be as small as possible, since there are already incipits before the music, and I don't think adding a third clef (!) would be a good idea. Comments welcome, of course.
Is this something a plug-in could do? Find the range of a given part, move the first system to the right, add an ossia bar to the left of it, taking into account all the different options one has?
Dennis
Dear Dennis,
That looks very nice. I would suggest moving the range notes into the first bar just to the right of the signature and ahead of the meter. That would get around the confusion of clefs. As I mentioned earlier, Oxford uses this style for some of its early choral music publications. If you are using the Ossia tool for the range notes, you could suppress the staff, then move the range notes.
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