I've had to do this myself several times. The difficulty is that PMX must
know the maximum number of instruments and their names at the very
beginning. The trick is to start the file with a dummy page that you will
later throw away. Then start the second page of the score (the first real
page) with a line/page/movement break and change to the reduced number of
instruments. For this case (details courtesy of Werner):
% nv,noinst,mtrnuml,mtrdenl,mtrnump,mtrdenp,xmtrnum0,isig,
3 3 4 4 0 6 0 -3
% npages,nsyst,musicsize,fracindent
2 7 20 .09
1
2
3
btt
./
Arbd
% some dummy music for the first line/page with 3 instruments
c44 c c c c c c c /
c44 c c c c c c c /
c44 c c c c c c c /
Tt
Here the title goes
L3P2Mr+n212bt
g83 g4 g8 a4d a8 | b8 b b4 b2 /
g84 b4- c8 e4d e8 | g8 g g4 g2 /
%3
g8 g4 g8 g4 g | f4 f2d /
g8 b4- c8 e4 e | c4 b2d /
%5
L6Mr-n3123btt
g8 g4 g8 g4 g | f4 f2d /
b8 b4 b8r c4 c | a4 a2dr /
g8 b4- c8 e4 e | c4 b2d /
Notice that there must be two systems on the dummy page and the first real
page must start with L3. There is a bug in PMX (scheduled for fixing in
2006) that keeps this from working with just one system on the dummy page.
Also notice the slight flaw in the very last line: no octave information was
given for the new voice, and PMX gets confused. For safety I always specify
the octave in every line of music at the beginning of every new input block.
--Don Simons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andre Van Ryckeghem [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 12:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: pmx changing number of staffs
>
> Hi,
>
> I like to change the number of staffs from 2 to 3 after 2 systems (music
> lines)
>
> Is there anyone who is willing to give me the proper commands or if it is
> already mentioned in the mailing list,
> is willing to point me to the proper Mutex-Archive mail?
>
> %The first part should meet:
> %nv,noinst,mtrnuml,mtrdenl,mtrnump,mtrdenp,xmtrnum0,isig,
> 2 2 4 4 0 6 0 -3
> % npages,nsyst,musicsize,fracindent
> 1 4 20 .09
>
> %The second part should meet:
> %nv,noinst,mtrnuml,mtrdenl,mtrnump,mtrdenp,xmtrnum0,isig,
> 3 3 4 4 0 6 0 -3
> % npages,nsyst,musicsize,fracindent
> 1 4 20 .09
>
> This is what i already tried:
> ----
> nv, noinst
> 3 3
> ....
> \\instrumentnumber 2\
> ....
> L1Mn212bt
> %first bar
> ...
> L3Mn3123btt
> %next bar
> ----
>
> for the first lines of music the best i could manage was a first
> system of 1 bar if i omit \\instrumentnumber 2\ then the first
> system has 1 bar with 3 staffs, the next systems have 2 staffs
>
> Thanks in advance
> Andre
