[Tex-music] Test--Please disregard

2004-02-26 Thread Don Simons
Andre reported the mailing list was broken and this is a test to see if it is still broken. ___ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

[Tex-music] RE: PMX 2.5.0: segfault

2004-02-26 Thread Don Simons
to the office later today, probably without the fsplit operation. Any suggestions? --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: Roland Stigge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:12 AM > To: Typesetting music with TeX > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: [Tex-music] RE: PMX 2.5.0: segfault

2004-02-27 Thread Don Simons
Roland Stigge wrote > Hi Don, > > thanks for working on this. > > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 16:36, Don Simons wrote: > > I'm not sure where to go from here. I can try the same steps > manually under > > linux when I get to the office later today, probably without th

[Tex-music] New PMX bugfix version 2.501

2004-02-29 Thread Don Simons
date and version number. --Don Simons ___ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

[Tex-music] PMX 2.501

2004-03-06 Thread Don Simons
you have compiled the PMX source file since I first uploaded it, I suggest you download the modified zip and recompile. http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2501.zip --Don Simons ___ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking

RE: [Tex-music] Font-based slurs in PMX

2004-03-15 Thread Don Simons
Dirk wrote: > >>> > Thus, t is indeed a poor brother of s, its only virtue being that > in one very > special case its use saves one some manual adjustment. > > I suspect the original reason for the "t" slur was only because, before > labelled slurs, one needed two different slur symbols in the >

RE: [TeX-music] Optional breath marks?

2004-03-24 Thread Don Simons
TeX rule. PMX complains if I put the macro terminator M at the end of the line. I'll have to look into that. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

RE: [TeX-music] Thicker staff lines

2004-04-04 Thread Don Simons
No answer but a related question: Double bars have always seemed too thick to me. Is there a good way to make all double bars less thick? --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jürgen > Fleck > Sent: Sunday, April

[TeX-music] PMX 2.502

2004-04-04 Thread Don Simons
little is to do beta testing as new versions appear, even if you don't plan to used the new enhancements. It's very hard for me to anticipate and test for all possible adverse interactions when I make changes to the code. Beta testing by a large number of p

RE: [TeX-music] scor2prt problem: %% after ---

2004-04-18 Thread Don Simons
ed to leave scor2prt alone for now, and include a comment in the next release of the manual cautioning against this. I might also decide to screen for it in PMX or scor2prt and issue a warning if it is found. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [m

RE: [TeX-music] pmx - AT brackets

2004-04-20 Thread Don Simons
were not being handled properly. The bug was hatched in version 2.415, when the AT option was introduced (although it's not related to the space problem). I'll have a fix out shortly. I can't remember why I ever coded up the replacement digits. Why would anyone ever w

Replacement xtup numbers (was RE: [TeX-music] pmx - AT brackets)

2004-04-20 Thread Don Simons
Col. G. L. Sicherman wrote > Don Simons wrote > > I can't remember why I ever coded up the replacement digits. Why would > > anyone ever want to use them? > > I sometimes use "5", "6", and "2". > So do I, whenever there are 5, 6, o

RE: [TeX-music] I can't compile pmx2.503

2004-05-09 Thread Don Simons
at it > is) is novel. Again: any particular reason ? There's no particular reason, and I changed it back to pmxab.exe in the revised zip. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

RE: [TeX-music] typesetting

2004-05-09 Thread Don Simons
specific to my own setup. I hope you are aware that the preprocessors PMX (for instrumental music) and M-Tx (for vocal) can immensely simplify the process compared to using raw MusiXTeX. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[TeX-music] PMX 2.503

2004-05-08 Thread Don Simons
thout resorting to inline TeX. 2. Allow musicsize of 24 and 29. 3. Bugfix: Fix bug introduced in 2.415 which caused error in printing replacement number in xtup. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archiv

[TeX-music] M-Tx Version 0.55 uploaded

2004-05-02 Thread Don Simons
volunteer out there who would be willing to try to convert the Pascal sources to C and create a tarball with a makefile? --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

RE: [TeX-music] PMX to MIDI

2004-06-02 Thread Don Simons
ne followed by a comment indicating whether the MIDI file is tied or not. Basically, only non-indexed s-slurs, and non-indexed postscript t-ties lead to midi ties. If you use any version before 2.5 and get a different result, please update. If you choose to update and get a different result, then p

RE: [TeX-music] volta

2004-07-09 Thread Don Simons
work. \\makeatletter\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@th.8pt\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\special{ps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) DLN end}}\ \\makeatother\ \\def\shl#1{\zcharnote{#1}{\kern-2pt\raise.4\internote\hbox{\psline{11pt}{3p t\ --Don S

RE: [TeX-music] Two figured bass line in PMX

2004-07-21 Thread Don Simons
harpsichord and visiting old friends at the International Baroque Institute at Longy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Then when you finish the typesetting, we can get together and play them :-) --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

RE: [TeX-music] Two figured bass line in PMX

2004-07-22 Thread Don Simons
t;Vol. 13 of this set" without saying who the other composer was or what the common features are. --Don Simons > Don Simons ha scritto: > > >When I saw the subject line I immediately thought about Pasquini > and those > >strange pieces. Are there any other works with tw

RE: [TeX-music] Two figured bass line in PMX

2004-08-08 Thread Don Simons
, but it's going to be rather complicated, so please don't hold your breath. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Luigi > Cataldi > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:44 AM > To: Typesetting music with TeX

RE: [TeX-music] Segno does not match instruments

2004-08-27 Thread Don Simons
en\ a22 / e25 / e25 / === What's a Viool? Is that the punch line to some joke about violas? --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andre > Van Ryckeghem > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 5:23 AM > To: Typese

RE: [TeX-music] Enable over 12 slurs at the same time

2004-08-29 Thread Don Simons
d files were 100% compatible with Type-K postscript slurs then I would support making them official (after a reasonable beta-test period). Otherwise, since I've invested so heavily in making PMX use Type-K slurs, I could not personally support such a change. --Don Simons > -Original Messag

RE: [TeX-music] too long scores with M-Tx

2004-09-14 Thread Don Simons
re, please send it to me (directly) and I'll see if I can make the dimensions big enough for that. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon > Dreher > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:13 AM > To: Typ

RE: [TeX-music] pmx: is this an error?

2004-10-17 Thread Don Simons
ug in the coding for \Ioctfin? --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andre > Van Ryckeghem > Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 10:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [TeX-music] pmx: is this an error? >

[TeX-music] Is the archive down?

2004-10-18 Thread Don Simons
I could not connect to icking-music-archive.org at 7:45 AM PDT. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bernhard > Lang > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 3:52 AM > To: Typesetting music with TeX > Subject

[TeX-music] Dot locations

2004-10-20 Thread Don Simons
asked for it. So I'll add this to the list, but don't hold your breath. Meanwhile you can use the PMX dot-moving facilities to put the dot wherever you want. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Chr

RE: [TeX-music] Acrobat has struck again!

2004-10-25 Thread Don Simons
No problem with my copy of Acrobat Reader 6.02 and the Weyse scan. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Jean-Pierre Coulon > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 4:31 AM > To: Typesetting music with TeX >

RE: [TeX-music] M-Tx/PMX: Tweaking distance between grace note and main note

2004-10-28 Thread Don Simons
Bravo, Olivier! --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Olivier > Vogel > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:52 AM > To: Typesetting music with TeX > Subject: [TeX-music] M-Tx/PMX: Tweaking distance between

[TeX-music] Order of clef, key change, barline

2004-10-28 Thread Don Simons
of the following measure, the new sign should be place before the barline." --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

[TeX-music] Order of clef, key change, barline

2004-10-28 Thread Don Simons
of the following measure, the new sign should be placed before the barline." --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

RE: [TeX-music] Crash test: PMX headers and TeX headlines

2004-10-30 Thread Don Simons
Does this help? Remember also that you can reduce the vertical space between the PMX header and the staff by appending a negative integer to "h". --Don Simons = % nv,noinst,mtrnuml,mtrdenl,mtrnump,mtrdenp,xmtrnum0,isig, 1 1 4 4

RE: [TeX-music] Crash test: PMX headers and TeX headlines

2004-10-30 Thread Don Simons
Forgot to mention: Did you realize that PMX can generate TeX headers including page numbers and other text with options to the P command. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex

RE: [TeX-music] pmx chords in xtuplet with F, dotted xtuplex

2004-10-30 Thread Don Simons
otherwise and can explain what the notation really means, I'm willing to listen. By the way, in the somewhat related notation a44x3d a a , the dot on the first note is in fact inherited by any chordal notes. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:

RE: [TeX-music] M-Tx/PMX: Tweaking distance between grace note and main note

2004-10-30 Thread Don Simons
confluence of the first 3 conditions and automagically insert extra space if needed. Perhaps a better alternative would be to invent an option for the X command to make it put the space right before the main note. Comments? --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[TeX-music] PMX 2.504

2004-11-02 Thread Don Simons
I've just uploaded PMX beta 2.504 to http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2504.zip The only new feature is an option X[x] to the G command, which inserts a space of x notehead widths between a normal grace and the main note. --Don S

[TeX-music] PMX Beta 2.505: New option for default rest positions in 2-voice staves

2004-11-13 Thread Don Simons
why I used K for the name of the option. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

[TeX-music] PMX 2.506: Bugfix in the new rest-positioning algorithm.

2004-11-15 Thread Don Simons
I discovered and fixed a bug in the new rest-positioning algorithm. Now when AK is issued, it will place simultaneous rests of equal duration at the default heights (unless user-defined tweaks have been issued). http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2506.zip --Don Simons

RE: [TeX-music] PMX Beta 2.505: New option for default rest positions in 2-voice staves

2004-11-15 Thread Don Simons
ser tweaking: enter e.g. r4+0 in one voice and r4b in the other. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

[TeX-music] Ties from one voice to another

2004-11-15 Thread Don Simons
one voice in a staff to another. I'm not sure if this is exactly what Christof had in mind, but in any event I've used trick #1 many times. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

[TeX-music] Minor PMX updates

2004-11-21 Thread Don Simons
into these things. Both the new zip, and the new file within it, have file date 21 November 04. http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2506.zip --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/li

RE: [TeX-music] ties and midi with m-tx or pmx

2004-12-03 Thread Don Simons
ource that you've confirmed exhibits the problem). If you did have multiple ties, then there's no surprise; PMX cannot do multiple simultaneous ties in a single voice. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

RE: [TeX-music] ties and midi with m-tx or pmx

2004-12-04 Thread Don Simons
o explicit index it ought to work in the MIDI. If you can't get all of your one-at-a-time ties to work in the MIDI by rearranging the indices, then please send me (privately) the PMX file and indicate where the problem is. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTEC

[TeX-music] A 17th c. musical mystery

2004-12-24 Thread Don Simons
k at the shape of the subject in the next two entrances, the tenor in Bar 1, and soprano in Bar 3. It's consistent with that F-natural having been an F-sharp. Can anyone shed any light on this? --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music

RE: [TeX-music] A 17th c. musical mystery

2004-12-26 Thread Don Simons
ay I uploaded a "special" excerpt (i.e., with verbatim accidentals) of the other puzzling example, to http://www.geocities.com/pchpublish/spemep1.pdf Some of the other arguments centered on the academic nature of ricercari. Since this other example is a Passo e Mezzo--a dance-

[TeX-music] Test; please ignore

2005-01-09 Thread Don Simons
Just checking whether my postings have started going through. ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

[TeX-music] LaTeX editor

2005-01-09 Thread Don Simons
ke a LaTeX development environment than simply an editor. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 10:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LaTeX editor Hello Sir, I am using WinEdt for editing LaTeX document and it work

RE: [TeX-music] Clef change

2005-01-18 Thread Don Simons
inning of a new line, > in this case at the end of the previous system. At least I got this one right. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

RE: [TeX-music] PMX - segmentation fault

2005-01-23 Thread Don Simons
Sorry, I can't reproduce the error, and line 143 in pmxab is a comment line. This may be caused by a dimension problem my Windows version is insensitive to. Can anyone provide any clearer debug info? --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[E

RE: [TeX-music] pmx ][ in xtup

2005-01-31 Thread Don Simons
ke so far I haven't allowed any forced beaming within xtups at all. I'll think about it some more, but please don't hold your breath. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andre > Van Ryckeghem > Sen

RE: [TeX-music] pmx - puzzling with beamed chords on 2 staffs

2005-02-24 Thread Don Simons
Bravo, Cornelius, for discovering some pretty useful hidden capabilities in PMX. I'm not sure "undocumented" applies, since to me that would suggest that the features were known but just not described in the manual. It'll take me some time to analyze this. --Don Simons >

RE: [TeX-music] pmx - exotic beams

2005-03-04 Thread Don Simons
ot;beam termination toggle" option on the "]" that closes the beam? --Don Simons === 1 1 3 8 3 8 0 2 1 1 20 .0 b ./ \\let\tblsav\tbl\ %1 without precautions [u e8- D"1" ze- Ct e++ zd zb b+ ze- zd ] | %2 getting a - slope on the beam -> bad endin

RE: [TeX-music] pmx - exotic beams

2005-03-04 Thread Don Simons
I wrote > >Maybe PMX needs a "beam termination > >toggle" option on the "]" that closes the beam? and Andre wrote > Do you mean by 'toggle' adding an option to ']' (someting as ']j' ) for > doing a \roff ? I was thinking of replacing \tbl with \tbu and vice versa, but maybe the same thing could

RE: [TeX-music] PMX default duration

2005-03-06 Thread Don Simons
I propose leaving the code behavior the same, and rewording that statement to the effect that any initial default or block-to-block inherited duration is accidental. At this time I'm not inclined either to trap these violations or to make the behavior official. --Don Simons > -

RE: [TeX-music] pmx - ties that end on a rest

2005-04-30 Thread Don Simons
he desired results without any in-line TeX. For the MIDI files on my web site (www.geocities.com/pchpublish) I always ended up having to make a special PMX input file to get things just right. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Be

RE: [TeX-music] --- 3 voices ---

2005-05-02 Thread Don Simons
nline commands. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Sass Bálint > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 5:28 AM > To: tex-music@icking-music-archive.org > Subject: [TeX-music] --- 3 voices --- > > > Hi! >

RE: [TeX-music] installation problem

2005-05-12 Thread Don Simons
You need to run TeX, then musixflx, then TeX again. Before any of this, you should delete barsant.mx1 and barsant.mx2 . --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Quinten > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 6:51 AM &g

RE: [TeX-music] How can I set three voices in one system with PMX?

2005-05-12 Thread Don Simons
. > >... I second that motion. I don't think it's possible to express how pleasing it is for me to see examples like this, and of course like Dirk's M-Tx, that extend PMX into areas that I never imagined. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music ma

Letters for pitches (was RE: [TeX-music] Three voices in one note line with PMX - I can't get it ;-)

2005-05-19 Thread Don Simons
ch lower. The moral of this story is: "Don't use letters for pitches in in-line TeX." I know that you can't then easily transpose the resulting score. All I can say about that is that I'm sorry, if you want that much flexibility, then go spend $500 for Finale. --Don Simo

[TeX-music] PMX 2.507 & Challenge to TeXperts

2005-05-31 Thread Don Simons
nt B" rather than from point A then move 3 inches to the right and 1 inch up." That would then make drawing these brackets so much easier that PMX could learn to do it really quick. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-musi

RE: [TeX-music] Changing number of staffs and Ae

2005-06-15 Thread Don Simons
e you can get rid of those extra-wide spaces above lines 2 and 4 by putting in even bigger ones above lines 3 and 5 (see modified source below). By the way I tried to play this, but I'm not very good in 2/5 meter :-) --Don Simons === 32 2 2 2 5 0 -1 1

RE: [TeX-music] concatenating musixtex files

2005-06-30 Thread Don Simons
PMX only issues \nostartrule if there is only one staff per system. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Olivier > Vogel > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:39 PM > To: Typesetting music with TeX >

RE: [TeX-music] normalsized cautionary accidentals in musixtex

2005-07-21 Thread Don Simons
=== 1 1 4 4 4 4 0 0 1 1 20 0 t .\ c24 \loffset{1.5}{\lpar5}\loffset{1.5}{\rpar5}\ c+s<.4 / === Looks kind of awkward, if you ask me. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [m

[TeX-music] What good is a format file?

2005-07-23 Thread Don Simons
not doing it. But I'm afraid novice users could get really confused by some of the stuff in there. If any potential editor wants to look at the source as it stood before I started working on it, you may be able to get it from this link: http://icking-music-archive.org/cmo/outgoing/musixtex-T1

RE: [TeX-music] Fw: Duette, obscure requests.

2005-07-28 Thread Don Simons
Am I missing something? What's so sinister about these requests? Is there something in the tone of the language? I don't know German at all. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Jean-Pierre Coulon >

RE: [TeX-music] Triplet bracket difficulties

2005-07-29 Thread Don Simons
ve to make another definition for lower brackets. I hope you plan to put the Rameau cantatas in the archive. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Trent J > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 5:28 AM > To: tex-music@icking-mu

[TeX-music] New version of musixtex

2005-07-30 Thread Don Simons
ssue a new release. I would suggest that no one blow away their working MusiXTeX installations just yet, but I would very much appreciate it if people would temporarily install the new copies of *.tex, musixflx.exe, and postscript fonts and report back any problems. --

RE: [TeX-music] Text in a score

2005-07-31 Thread Don Simons
a table showing the octal number for each of the characters. You might also be able to figure out the character number by looking in musixtex.tex for a macro that uses the character. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

RE: [TeX-music] Text in a score

2005-08-01 Thread Don Simons
x27;documented', even though the documentation > is only a submission to the list. > > There are quite a few other very nice things in pmx.tex. Don, how would > you feel about it if people who use them publish their usage, thus raising > their status to 

RE: [TeX-music] Detailed ornament variants

2005-08-03 Thread Don Simons
inconsistent with historical performance practice. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Sass Bálint > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 7:13 PM > To: tex-music@icking-music-archive.org > Subject: [TeX-musi

RE: [TeX-music] Detailed ornament variants

2005-08-03 Thread Don Simons
en out a main-note trill in one of these, but I still doubt it (because it would sound wierd), I've never heard it, and the two Methodical Sonatas I have--in c minor and g minor--don't have anything like that. But I'd be glad to have someone prove me wrong. --Don Simons > -O

RE: [TeX-music] Detailed ornament variants

2005-08-04 Thread Don Simons
Olivier Vogel wrote > I suggest this way of doing (not perfect in my opinion). > ... What part isn't perfect? Seems perfect to me. Thank you for a useful piece of knowledge. ccn, you should make this a "tip and trick." --Don Simons

RE: [TeX-music] Re: normalsized cautionary accidentals in musixtex

2005-08-08 Thread Don Simons
5}\ c+s<.4 / ======= --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob > Tennent > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:28 AM > To: TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org > Subject: [TeX-music] Re: normalsized cautionary accidentals i

RE: [TeX-music] grace notes in mtx

2005-08-08 Thread Don Simons
with no flags. It may not be too difficult to implement but I'm not going to do it if no one wants it, and I can't recall this ever coming up before. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dirk > Laurie >

RE: [TeX-music] Beaming Across Bars...

2005-09-12 Thread Don Simons
Anything that happens when you try to beam across a bar line in PMX is an accident. PMX assumes beams don't cross bar lines. If I had to do it, I'd use inline TeX. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tren

RE: [TeX-music] more space at each system

2005-10-01 Thread Don Simons
w \dimen" when loading musixps.tex, exactly like I had gotten with latex in 2.1. I searched the hard drive for texmf.cnf and it's not there at all (not that I would have known what to do if I had found it). Any suggestions what to do next? --Don Simons

Latex capacity (was RE: [TeX-music] more space at each system)

2005-10-01 Thread Don Simons
o seem to get the extended capability for this latex document, but only after including \usepackage{etex} in the source, and only by compiling with elatex. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

[TeX-music] New PMX beta (2.508)

2005-10-08 Thread Don Simons
I've just uploaded a new beta version of PMX to http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2508.zip Recent list traffic has shamed me into enabling grace notes within xtuplets. I hope I haven't screwed anything up. I'd appreciate reports of any problems

RE: [TeX-music] --- AS ---

2005-11-03 Thread Don Simons
Sass Bálint wrote > Don Simons' PMX manual (2.3.7) says: > "It is followed by exactly nv characters which are either - or 0 > depending on wether the corresponding staff is normal or small." > > That means: > - normal > 0 small > > Prof. Noack's PMX

RE: [TeX-music] musixtex - \changecontext

2005-12-02 Thread Don Simons
, future musixtexers would be grateful. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andre > Van Ryckeghem > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:25 AM > To: Typesetting music with TeX > Subject: Re: [TeX-music] musixtex

RE: [TeX-music] Page numbers

2005-12-08 Thread Don Simons
ough the file. Well I'm not sure I'd glorify it as "fancy", but there is a macro \toppageno defined in pmx.tex, which PMX uses for inserting page numbers and optional text into a header. In fact its pretty unfancy, because you

[TeX-music] RE: [ADMIN] new wave of trojans

2005-12-13 Thread Don Simons
To all-- I'm almost as offended by the poor English as by the hijacking of my email address. But there's nothing I can do about either. --the real Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: maurizio codogno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 12

[TeX-music] I'll never understand TeX fonts.

2005-12-13 Thread Don Simons
s of ptmr7t.vf, 8r.enc, and how I can get a postscript version of this font without having a .pfb file??? --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

RE: [TeX-music] learning musixText

2005-12-14 Thread Don Simons
section containing 68 musixtex source files all in one place (many the same as above, but here there are no images) --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

RE: [TeX-music] learning musixText

2005-12-18 Thread Don Simons
'll probably have to shift each symbol both vertically and horizontally to get it where you want, and you may also need to specify the font if you don't like the default. 2. Use inline TeX such as possibly \zchar4{\kern-3pt 1}\. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

RE: [TeX-music] "beamed" half-note

2005-12-20 Thread Don Simons
have been less elaborate had I realized that \hb existed). In this case it could be argued that for reasons of clarity, the notation might be replaced by printing side-by-side noteheads, and that is easily achievable in PMX: a23r // a83 a+ c a / --Don Simons > -Original Message--

RE: [TeX-music] "beamed" half-note

2005-12-21 Thread Don Simons
whole note. > There is a clear difference in > interpretation between using a stem and beam instead of an eighth > rest. I don't have any quarrel with that either, and I never suggested otherwise. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX

RE: [TeX-music] Problems with grace notes in PMX

2005-12-23 Thread Don Simons
ery ugly kluge (which I'm sure you could have worked out yourself, but you shamed me into it). --Don Simons == 3 3 3 4 3 4 0 -3 1 1 16 0.0 bat ./ B ArbeI.95 % bar 1 r1 b1- df1 f1 b4 g4 / \turn{15}\ dfd2+ s / % %a4++ s gd8 s f1 GA2m3en f Gf bd8 b1 / a4++ s gd8

RE: [TeX-music] Gregorian chant in MusiXTeX

2005-12-28 Thread Don Simons
improve the package, I would appreciate your making your work available for inclusion in the archive (either contact me personally or the list). --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Elie > Roux > Sent: Wednesday, Dece

[TeX-music] RE: accidentials in dynamics

2005-12-31 Thread Don Simons
version 2.503 I introduced an option to left-shift arpeggios. Unfortunate it has a bug which keeps it from working right when there are two voices per line, such as in this case. But fear not, I found the bug, corrected it, and just uploaded version 2.509 to the archive. For e

[TeX-music] New PMX beta with very small bugfix

2005-12-31 Thread Don Simons
All this does is correct an error in the arpeggio left-shift option which kept it from working right in some cases when there were two voices on a staff. http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2509.zip --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list

RE: [TeX-music] Coda and triplets in PMX

2006-01-14 Thread Don Simons
here was a time when this didn't work for type 1 inline TeX, but I fixed that long ago. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Helge > Kruse > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:05 AM > To: 'Typesetti

RE: [TeX-music] Re: tex input at the begin of a block

2006-01-14 Thread Don Simons
such things. Also, it would be > nice if TeX-input after the last note of a block (with the > input-commands of any type) could be inserted and would not be ignored > as they are now. Would it take major efforts to make such changes or > additi

[TeX-music] PMX 2.510, small bugfix

2006-01-21 Thread Don Simons
cause any adverse effects when using the existing binaries for 2.508 and 2.509. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

[TeX-music] Change in the software archive

2006-01-22 Thread Don Simons
mat. This will simplify future upgrading. Since unzippers are available in Linux and Unix, I hope this doesn't pose a problem for anyone. If there are still folks who want to use them at their own risk, the rpm's and the tarball remain in the software directory and acce

[TeX-music] Pronunciation of MusiXTeX

2006-01-23 Thread Don Simons
d anyone ever actually hear how any of the developers pronounced it? --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

[TeX-music] MAC OSX version of PMX 2.510

2006-01-29 Thread Don Simons
http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2510-OSX.zip Thanks to Christian Mondrup! --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

RE: [TeX-music] too many records in I/O statement

2006-02-03 Thread Don Simons
Please privately email me the file that's causing the problem. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Helge > Kruse > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:09 PM > To: 'Typesetting music with TeX'

RE: [TeX-music] Need ornament: flageolett

2006-02-05 Thread Don Simons
anual just passed that section last week. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Helge > Kruse > Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 7:51 AM > To: 'Typesetting music with TeX' > Subject: [TeX-music] Need

RE: [TeX-music] Need ornament: flageolett

2006-02-05 Thread Don Simons
oth the plus and especially the double slash are likewise very obscure, but I happened to have needed both for my own purposes. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

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