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| 16 | Sometimes, on music for instruments that use more than one staff, |
| 17 | you may want some of the notes of a chord to be printed on |
| 18 | the staff above or below, rather than using a lot of leger lines. |
| 19 | You can specify this by putting the word "with" before the notes that |
| 20 | are to go on the other staff, and following those notes with "above" or "below" |
| 21 | to specify which is the other staff. |
| 22 | For example: |
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| 24 | score |
| 25 | staffs=2 |
| 26 | staff 2 |
| 27 | clef=bass |
| 28 | music |
| 29 | |
| 30 | 1: 1e+g+c++; |
| 31 | 2: cc+; ee+; g with g+ above; with c+c++ above; |
| 32 | bar |
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| 34 | 1: cc+; g with g- below; e with e- below; with cc- below; |
| 35 | 2: 1c-e-g-; |
| 36 | bar |
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| 41 | The notes for the other staff have to follow the notes on the normal staff in |
| 42 | the input. As is shown in the example, |
| 43 | it is possible to have <I>all</I> the notes on the "other" staff, if you wish. |
| 44 | The octave is specified as if the note were on the normal staff; |
| 45 | Mup will automatically adjust appropriately for the other staff's clef. |
| 46 | Once in a while, Mup may not be able to figure out how to completely |
| 47 | avoid colliding with other notes; in that case you can use the |
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| 49 | that was described earlier. |
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| 54 | purposes, only the normal staff's key signature and accidentals are |
| 55 | considered, so if the other staff has a different |
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| 57 | or accidentals that should really apply to these notes, you will have |
| 58 | to supply accidentals explicitly. |
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