Re: Volta brackets in scores?

[Werner Icking]

> From: Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 00:07:37 +0100
> 
> When typesetting orchestral scores with repeats, you get
> a volta bracket over each staff line. [...]

> Would it be possible to automatically connect the volta
> brackets only to the top staff line? [...]

May I add from my typesetting experience that similar processing
is desired for other items too, if their meaning has to be
obbeyed by all voices. Examples are any sort of ritardandi,
"a tempo" specifications and any other sort of timing specs.
like metronomic indications and other characterization as e.g.
"Andante", "Allegro", "Tempo I", ...

Dynamic specifications like "p", "f", etc. are  normally
connected to all voices although I have seen scores where
these indications were made only to the lowest voice.

So it's a more general problem esp. if someone wants to
write such specifications only once and specify at another
place whether it has to be printed for every voice or on
top or below the score (but for every voice when making
parts).

Sorry, that I make the problem bigger without being able to
add anything to the solution. (No, the problem isn't solved
in M-Tx/PMX/MusiXTeX in general, although I found ways to deal
with it :-)

-- Werner