Rainer Dunker wrote:
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:43:58PM -0400, Bob Tennent wrote:
A publisher wants me to add "tacet alto" on the first page of a score.
The first movement is for STB recorders and the alto joins in for the
second movement. My question is: where does such an indication go? It
seems to me the most likely place is below the lowest staff of the first
system. Is that right? And if so, how do I put it there in musixtex
(there is no \downtext{} macro)?
I can't answer your first question about where to put such an indication
properly.
Tacet indications are most often applied for separate parts extracted
from a full score in cases where an instrument is inactive in a
movement. If you need to add that kind of information to a score I
suggest to do it as a footnote on the first score page where the
instrument in question is absent.
Setting it below a staff, however, can be done with
\zchar{-4}{tacet}, for example; the negative number in the first
argument tells MusiXTeX to put the text's baseline that many times the
internote distance below the staff baseline. (In fact, \uptext just
calls \zchar a similar way.)
Best regards,
Rainer
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