Re: a \new Score question

[Tim Reeves]

> I know that doing \new Score is generally not recommended, but in the 
process 
> of helping someone I came across a couple of questions, and the only 
solution 
> I could find required me to do \new Score. First, the goal here is have 
a 
> score with four separate staves, but an ambitus that encompasses all of 
them; 
> it's a canon.
> [...]

Interesting example!
Using a recent development version, it is possible to print the ambitus of
the whole score on the first system, by sightly adapting the example given
in Documentation/snippets/new/scheme-engraver-ambitus.ly



For a score containing transposing instruments, does the ambitus reflect 
the concert pitches of all instruments, or the pitches as written?



Tim Reeves