crap, got carried away and answered more than you asked... well,
maybe some of it is useful...
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Dennis Bathory-Kitsz bathory at maltedmedia.com
I'm really curious (jef, are you there?) if there's a straightforward way
of setting the timeline that parallels the staves at the top and bottom.
all measurements in EVPUs.
4 staves, i suggest the timeline (with seconds) on the bottom.
each second is one measure 1/4 time sig, every 5 measures have full
barlines, all others have a special barline that you define 48 EVPU
from the normal bottom line; staff style hides these smaller barlines
in the upper boundary line (the one on the bottom in your doc).
each system has 29 measures, starts with one measure of a larger
width which is hidden in the trombones (not the default hidden staff
style, a staff style with 0 staff lines) and a second measure the
same width (or slightly smaller) as the 27 following measures.
music spacing according to time sig.
trombones are grouped with bracket default indent large enough to sit
where you want it (200 or so).
default staff is 1 line with no barlines and hide clefs (bass clef is
default); metatool 5 to set 5-line no barlines showing clefs
(wherever clefs are needed, set the entire previous measure as 5-line
but set the clef change to the measure where the music starts).
set all (or most, you'll have to experiment) values before / after
time sigs, clefs etc. to 0; before music to -24 (approx.) so first
notes in the measure sit on the barline.
all beamed groups entered in a single measure (the one where it
starts) and have a tuplet value where the first value is the total of
duration of the beamed group and the second value is the number of
"measures" it extends over (eg. 5/16 in 4/4 at 1:30). hide brackets
and numbers once finished the score, but leave them showing as you do
the score for easier editing and visualizing. any beamed groups
which have variable positioning of equal values (0:26-0:30) will have
to be adjusted manually.
set trombone staves to not show rests at the end of the job; rests
are used as placeholders for notes that don't start a the beginning
of the measure.
beam thickness 24, secondary beam separation 30
i could go on... but then you'd be in debt a bottle of whisky 8^)
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- use tenor clef except when notes/passages go above D5
- + is usually used for closed, o for open mutes
- man, do it landscape, 1 system per page
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shirling & neueweise ... new music publishers
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