Maurizio Codogno wrote:
>
> I am transcribing a song (one voice, lyrics and chords), using M-Tx and pmx.
> I ran into two problems, however.
>
> (a) the song starts with a voiceless obbligato, which I wanted to show with
> tiny notes. I added a macro
> %%\def\tns{\tinynotesize}
> and added \tns\ before the notes. It was nicely passed to the pmx source, but
> the problem comes in the TeX output. Every time there is a \en (every bar at
> best, but also when there are some eigths) I should add again a \tns\ , and
> this
> is annoying. Is there any way to do it simpler? And what if I have two voices
> in the same staff (sung part and some variant)?
>
Bob Tennent once helped me with a similar problem, i.e. forcing small
note size in a right hand harpsichord staff. I attach a small file with
the tex macros doing so. Maybe you'll be able to adapt it to your
purposes.
> (b) I want to add in the lyrics' line some annotation: "(Solo)" and "(Coro)".
> The solution with \llyr\lyroffset{-5}\ does not seem to work. Since I have
> a bar
> with a rest before the beginning of the lyrics, I could also force the text
> under that bar, but I don't know how :-(
>
use \zcharnote which will allow you to place anything anywhere in the
score.
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notesize.tex
