Practical use

• Heading statements
• Before you begin to write notes
  • Instrument names
  • Polyphonic songs
  
  
• Starting your masterpiece
  • Typing the first system
  • Easy selecting note spacing
  
  
• Note pitch specification
• Writing notes
  • Single (spacing) notes
  • Non-spacing (chord) notes
  • Shifted non-spacing (chord) heads
  • Shifted notes
  • Non-spacing single notes
  • Pointed notes
  
  
• Beams
  • Fixed slope beams
  • Repeated pattern beams
  • Semi-automatic beams
  
  
• Rests
  • ordinary rests
  • Lifted rests
  
  
• Phantom notes
• Collective coding: sequences of notes
• Accidentals
• Transposition and octaviation
• Ties and slurs
  • Standard and nicer slurs
  • Problem with large slur ends
  • Weird slurs and ties
  • Refined slurs for clever typesetters
  
  
• Bars
  • Bars and spacing
  • Bar numbering
  • Full and instrument divided bars
  
  
• Line and page breaking
• Changing score attributes
• Repeats
  • Elementary and unsafe solutions
  • Safe and correct coding
  • Specific first and second pass scoring
  • Large scope repeats
  
  
• Miscellaneous
  • Putting anything anywhere
  • Metronomic indications
  • Usual ornaments
  • New line synchronization of coding
  • Beams across bars
  
  
• Small and tiny notes
  • Cadenzas and explicit ornaments
  • Grace notes
  • Gregorian note shapes
  • Percussion stemless note shapes
  • Other note shapes
  
  
• Staff size
  • Moving from 20pt to 16pt general staff sizes and conversely
  • Changing staff size for certain instruments
  
  
• Layout parameters
  • List of layout parameters
  • Changing layout parameters
  • Changing the vertical distance between consecutive systems
  • Changing staff distance within systems
  • Changing the number of lines in staffs
  • Resetting normal layout parameters
  • Typesetting one-line excerpts rather than larges scores
  • Lyrics
  
  
• Other special ornaments
• Abnormal music coding
  • Gregorian chant
  • Music score without clefs or with special clefs
  • Usual percussion music
  
  
• Writing your own macros: the normalshapemediumseries\catcode problems
• MusiclaTEX
  • The musictex.sty style
  • Wide music in L^ATEX
  • The normalshapemediumseries\catcode problems
  
  
• Implementation and restrictions