hi,
Thank you, I shall try PMX. Does it work well with MikTeX?
Alexander
"Simons, Don" wrote:
>
> I cannot speak for M-Tx (which you would need to use for lyrics), but in PMX
> it is *very* easy to put two instruments on one staff (actually the PMX
> terminology is "two lines of music" on one staff). And if later you want to
> change them to separate staves, that would also be very easy, simply having
> to replace the "//" with "/" at the end of the first of each bass/tenor pair
> of input lines.
>
> If you do not or cannot use a pre-processor, everything will be hard.
>
> --Don Simons
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander V. Voinov [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:42 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Two instruments on one stuff
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to have two instruments on one and the same stuff?
>
> I plan to publish some choral scores with the use of MusixTeX/MXlyr, and
> I'd like to retain the possibility to quickly change the layout: either
> to join tenor with bass or to provide a separate stuff to him. From what
> I see now, I can hardly figure out that this is at all possible: I have
> to write tenor+bass scores as if it was a single 'instrument' issuing
> chords:
>
> \zql L\qu b
> \zql M\qu c
> \zql L\qu b
> ...
>
> rather than
>
> \ql{LML} & \qu{bcb}
> (this example may be musically unreasonable, just to show the idea)
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Alexander
