Werner Icking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> From: Dirk Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Poet's name; labels at every staff
>[...]
>> Christian Mondrup wrote:
>>
>> > One last question: how do I tell M-Tx to print the abbreviated voice
>> > labels from the style SATB4 at the beginning of staffs after the
>first > > system ?
>> >
>> M-Tx and PMX have no such feature. Raw MusiXTeX may -- I don't know.
> > MusiXTeXperts please help!
>
>Have a look at the MusiXTeX add-ons on http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
>"Orchestral scores" shows such an example. The raw MusiXTeX-source is
>given there, too. An extract:
>
>%...
>\let\ni\nextinstrument
>%...
>\def\namespace{14mm} % provide space for instrument names
>\advance\hoffset\namespace\advance\hsize-\namespace
>%...
I have not tried this out, but please consider this: When horizontal
spacing becomes tight, PMX inserts additional space to avoid crashes
or just to improve appearance in many situations: accidentals, flags,
clef changes, up-stems before bar lines, dots, etc. This facility
will be compromised by any in-line TeX that alters either the
horizontal space available in a line (as I believe Werner's suggestion
does), or the horizontal space required (such as inserting an extra
spacing note with in-line TeX). If the line in question is "loose"
enough, there will be no undesirable effect, but if it is tight,
crashes could result. The crashes could be remedied by inserting
extra space with the PMX command "X...".
Perhaps a better approach would be to set a reduced basic line width
with the pmx command "w...", and adjust the horizontal offset with
in-line TeX.
--Don Simons
