Re: Multistaff utility

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Thursday 28 August 2003 04:59 pm, Luis Pablo Gasparotto wrote:
> I'm using Lilypond for arranging music for my saxophone quartet. I
> also use abcm2ps. I think that is really useful to can write a tune
> in this way:
>
I already did it this way:

              sopr        alto        tenor      bari
(measure 1) c4 d f g  | c4 d f g  | c4 d f g  | c4 d f g  
(measure 2) a4 b d e  | a4 b d e  | a4 b d e  | a4 b d e 
(measure 3) c4 d f g  | c4 d f g  | c4 d f g  | c4 d f g 
(measure 4) g4 a c b  | g4 a c b  | g4 a c b  | g4 a c b

I am sure you will find it much more practical.  Sly splits
the score into as many parts as there are fields, and then
each part, each a separate file ending -ptn.ly, can be
included in this fashion:

\include "xxx-pt4.ly"

and if you run lyinclude on the xxx.ly file, the parts will
all be written into the file.  You might want to do that
after you're sure that the piece is all done.

To prevent "paper20.ly", etc, from being written in, put a 
comment % after it on the same line.

If you put each of your parts on one line in a file:
c4 d f g | c4 d f g | c4 d f g | c4 d f g |etc etc etc.
part 2............... etc

you can run sly-mate on it and that will to a matrix
transposition on it so it will be ready to use as
a sly file.  All this stuff is on my website.  DaveA

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