I'm curious what exactly you want to do. If PMX can't already do it, I'm willing as always to consider adding some capability to make it possible.
I've looked briefly at the expositions in T112, and it looks like Pandora's box to me, with statements like "In hidden instruments, rests no more behave like \hbox{...} and raise-ing them will result in an error." and "In hidden instruments, explicit \hboxes will remain as empty boxes, thus causing abnormal vertical spacings between instruments. Therefore, anything suspect should be made conditional with: \ifactiveinstrument - the problematic code code to be omitted if instrument is hidden - \fi --Don Simons > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Bob > Tennent > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 12:56 PM > To: tex-music@tug.org > Subject: [Tex-music] parts from scores > > In the MusiXTeX manual, it says > > you may refer to the details that were provided in > Section 1.4.3 of an earlier version of this manual, > musixdoc-T112.pdf. > > where it says > > provided that you give symbolc number to instruments, new > macroes (see 2.22) permit: > > + to chose which instrument the following source code is attached to, > > + to chose which staff of an instrument the following > source code is attached to, > > + to hide one or several instrument giving their staff > size and staff numbers the values zero. > > Could someone please provide more explanation or a minimal working > example of this? > > Bob T. > > P.S. Yes, I know PMX will extract parts. > ------------------------------- > TeX-music@tug.org mailing list > If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music