On 09/10/2023 13:05, Jun Tamura wrote:
Dear List,
I’ve been engraving an arrangement (for a smaller orchestra) of
Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto and I’d like your advice. There are
Tutti/Solo marks on the original score
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at the beginning and then at bars 111, 172, etc. These marks should
appear above the top staff of the multi-staff score and on each part of
every instrument. Is there a recommended practice to achieve this?
I initially thought that \textmark would be a good choice. I embedded
'\textmark “Tutti”’ on every part and then realized that several
(actually, the number of the parts in the score) “Tutti” are stacked
vertically above the top staff of the multi-staff score. I understand
that \mark and \tempo aggregate identical marks into one line but I
can’t use \mark or \tempo since only one \mark or \tempo is allowed at a
specific moment and Tutti/Solo marks sometimes coincide with a tempo
indication (at bar 1) or a rehearsal mark (at bar 172).
Any suggestions would be greatly appriceated.
Declare a voiceTuttiSolo variable and just use spacers to put them in
the right place? Then when printing parts you can merge this voice in,
when printing the score you can merge it in, but it's not in every part
to cause that chaos.
The other approach I would consider is to declare variables Tutti and
Solo so you can just put \Tutti and \Solo at the appropriate places, and
improve the code as and when you can. Okay, you'll have that mess
initially, but once you find out how to fix it, you'll only have that
one place to fix.
Cheers,
Wol
