Re: Ambitus not in the beginning

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2013/11/24 Kai Lautenschläger <address@hidden>:
> Hi David,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
> Am 24.11.2013 um 12:26 schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>
>> "Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> sorry to ask again and I hope this time it will not be something
>>> obviously explained in the manual. Is there a way to insert ambitus at
>>> the beginning of a staff, that is not the first staff of the score?
>>>
>>> A piece I am doing starts of with solo voice and organ and later the
>>> choir sets in with the solo staff being taken over by the tenors. I
>>> would like to add an ambitus in each choir voice, when it first
>>> appears (the empty lines in the first two systems before are not
>>> shown).
>>
>> Just use an ambitus engraver in each of the tenor voices (one with an
>> X-offset)?
>
> I understand, but that not solve my problem. I would like an ambitus in the 
> n-th system of a score instead of at the beginning. How do I go about that?

If the voice to which you add ambitus starts there (i.e. it doesn't
start at the beginning of the piece) you should get what you want.

\new Staff {
  R1*3
  \new Voice \with { \consists "Ambitus_engraver" } {
    c'2 g'
  }
}

Janek