RE: [TeX-music] Text in two columns in TeX
Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:
I wish to append some comments in two languages, two columns, at
the end of a MusiXTeX document.
I know how to do this in LaTeX (see the attached example), but
AFAIK, you have to speak TeX instead of LaTeX to add significant
text to a MusiXTeX file.
Does anybody know how to translate the attached LaTeX file into
TeX ?
André Van Ryckeghem already provided the code to attach text to the
PMX-generated musixtex-code; perhaps this will help to create the
two-column look:
In essence, the \parbox[t] in LaTeX boils down to a \vtop TeX
primitive. This is the same as a \vbox, except that its baseline
lines up with the topmost line in the box instead of the bottom
line.
\vtop{\strut\hsize=6cm Since Coulonnus was an expert in ancient
music he would have played bars 120 and ff like this and
blablabla:\strut\par}
\hfill
\vtop{\strut\hsize=6cm Comme Coulonnus \'etait un expert en
musique ancienne il aurait jou\'e les mesures 120 et suivantes
comme ceci et blablabla et en Francais le texte est plus long et
blablabla:\strut\par}
\par
You might also consider going the other way round and include the
PMX-generated code in a LaTeX document. You have post-process the
PMX-output though, like stripping the \bye command and some other
contructs. I don't have the script I use for that purpose at hand
now, but I can look it up at home if you're interested.
HTH,
Arjen Bax
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RE: [TeX-music] M-Tx on Windows: starting up problems
Aloha, Dirk wrote: The most common cause of this error on a Unix system is that a file called mozart.mtx exists but is empty. Another cause may be that the input file for MTX contains LF (unix) line endings where MTX expects CRLF (DOS) line endings. (I don't know this for sure and can't test it: my system is the other way round. If the MTX input file contains CRLF line endings where the program expects only LF, then you get an error message like: You have not defined Meter, assuming C : WARNING on line 240 Unknown line label: ERROR on line 1 ) HTH, Arjen Bax -- Arjen Bax, consultant | LogicaCMG | Eemsgolaan 1 | 9727 DW Groningen | Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | The Netherlands | ICQ # 171090809 | T: +31-50-5219500 | F: +31-50-5219501 | W: http://www.logicacmg.com Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] OT: Acrobat Bug
Takanori Uchiyama [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote on Thursday, February 13, 2003 3:06 AM (is this local time or UT?): Please try it and let me know the results. I tried and the horizontal slurs display OK in Acrobat Reader 5.0.5, whereas with the previous xslz20.pdf they did not display. I tried the following routes from tex to pdf and all failed (and with Takanori Uchiyama's new font succeeded) in the same way: tex - latex - dvi - dvipdfm - pdf tex - pdflatex - pdf tex - latex - dvi - dvips - ps - ps2pdf(gs) - pdf If it works well, can I replace the current font in musixps-unix.tar.gz with the font generated as David's suggestion? Yes, please do. Greetz, Arjen -- Arjen Bax, consultant | LogicaCMG | Eemsgolaan 1 | 9727 DW Groningen | Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | The Netherlands | ICQ # 171090809 | T: +31-50-5219500 | F: +31-50-5219501 | W: http://www.logicacmg.com Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] PMX/MusixTeX with pdftex
Michael Brinkmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote Saturday, January 18, 2003 11:44 AM: However, if I use pdftex together with pmx instead of plain tex, the slur in the first line of code is not displayed in the PDF-viewer. Not only in pdftex, but also with dvipdfm the slur does not show up in Acrobat 5.x. May this be a bug in the ps-fonts of musixtex? No, it is a bug in Acrobat Reader 5.x: it does not display slurs that are horizontal, i.e., that start and end on the same note height. I suspect that this is caused by an optimization in Acrobat Reader: characters with height 0 don't display. The slurs show up correctly when viewed with Ghostscript and in Acrobat Reader 4.x, which can be obtained from the Icking Archive, as indicated on the Introduction page. HTH, Arjen -- Arjen Bax | LogicaCMG B.V. NNL | Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | Eemsgolaan 1 | 9727 DW Groningen | The Netherlands | ICQ # 171090809 | TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219501 | WEB http://www.logicacmg.com Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] Printer problem: will do either ties or dynamics, but not both...
Aloha Evita, You wrote: 2. Has anyone found a solution to the slur/tie problem in Acrobat Reader 5 (and, on my system, 4.05 as well)? Do Stanislav's postscript slurs (which I haven't so far been using) work around the problem? I'm using Hiroaki MORIMOTO's musixpss.tex (with Metapost slurs) with dvipdfm and they work fine (correct display print in Acrobat Reader 5.x). When using dvipdfm or dvips as dvi renderer, you may issue \psslursimplepositioningtrue to avoid the third tex pass. I didn't try musixpss with pdftex yet. HTH, Arjen -- Arjen Bax | LogicaCMG B.V. NNL | Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | Eemsgolaan 1 | 9727 DW Groningen | The Netherlands | ICQ # 171090809 | TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219501 | WEB http://www.logicacmg.com Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] I want your tests
Danaiel Taupin wrote: I'm really reluctant, once more, because of the problem of register consumption. This make musixadd and musixmadd not compatible with other register consuming packages, especially in LaTeX. I agree with Daniel. I have encountered some problems with MusiXTeX (T109) in combination with LaTeX due to the limit of 255 dimen registers. Vanilla LaTeX still works, but as soon as one adds some popular packages (graphicx, fancyhdr) the ceiling is hit. :-( Greetz, Arjen -- Arjen Bax | LogicaCMG B.V. NNL | Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | Eemsgolaan 1 | 9727 DW Groningen | The Netherlands | ICQ # 171090809 | TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219501 | WEB http://www.logicacmg.com Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] Bar number control in PMX
Aloha,
Alexandros Droseltis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes on
Tuesday, December 10, 2002 5:14 PM:
Is it possible not to have the bar number at the beginning of each
system in PMX? I have inserted my own \\def\freqbarno{5}\ in a PMX
file, but the system-bars keep on appearing.
pmx.tex issues a \systemnumbers declaration, which must be revoked
(countermanded?) by a \barnumbers or \nobarnumbers command. Furthermore
it may be necessary to redefine \writebarno, which is extensively
modified in pmx.tex (with respect to the definition in musixtex.tex).
While the topic arises: Hello Don Simons! Are you standing by please? Is
it possible to split the \writebarno macro in pmx.tex in parts: one part
that does the actual writing of the bar number (the \boxit{ ... } stuff)
and another part that does the baseline computation stuff? Then it will
be easier to adapt the number writing part without having to duplicate
the other part.
Furthermore I observed that there are some hard-coded font selection
commands in pmx.tex (like \tenrm and \eightit), which make it
non-trivial to change to different (PS) fonts. Maybe it's possible to
replace these by style-switching commands (\normtype\rm, \smalltype\it)?
HTH,
Arjen Bax
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RE: [TeX-music] Litetrature on music engraving
Aloha, David Bobroff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:32 PM: The following entry is from the Lilypond website. ... Especially the section on Music Typewriters is amusing HWN. I wondered what was meant with HWN, until I realized that it stands for Han-Wen Nienhuys, one of the authors of Lilypond. Greetz, Arjen -- Arjen Bax | CMG Noord-Nederland B.V. | Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | Eemsgolaan 1 | 9727 DW Groningen | The Netherlands | ICQ # 171090809 | TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219501 | WEB http://www.cmg.nl Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] Automated bar cutting
Aloha, Matthieu Quignard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: I would like to typeset two instrument parts without beat-alignment and with very long bar. Just an idea; I don't know if this works: Insert bar rules at feasible breakpoints, but use \hidebarrule to prohibit displaying. Then use \Showbarrule for those bar rules that are real and that should appear in the score. HTH, Arjen Bax -- Arjen Bax | CMG Noord-Nederland B.V. | Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | Eemsgolaan 1 | 9727 DW Groningen | The Netherlands | ICQ # 171090809 | TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219501 | WEB http://www.cmg.nl Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] pmx: big and small accidentals
Aloha, Don Simons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: It has occurred to me from time to time that a default-override file might be useful. There are a few drawbacks, though. Now, the output from a given pmx file depends *only* on the binary, and that's a very good thing. Among other advantages, that makes problem-solving via the list a whole lot easier. Anyone with the same binary will get the same tex file. Putting in my EUR 0.02: This is a very true remark and I heartily agree with it (both with the pro and the con). In my carreer as a professional programmer I've learnt that there are two important things in a growing software program: tracing logging and configurability. When a software system grows, users (and testers) want different methods to configure it: e.g., by command line options, user system configuration files, environment variables. Usually I support all of these, with different levels of preference, sometimes one method overriding the other, other times one augmenting the other. Btw, one of the difficulties is always the bootstrap: how do I configure the configuration (chicken/egg-problem)? But when the number of configurable options grows, so grows the need for a concise tracing logging subsystem, so that at each point of the execution the user (or customer support, or the programmer) exactly knows which configuration options are in effect and where these have been set. Summarizing: Don, if you ever will give a second thought to expanding the configurability of pmx, maybe you can also consider the traceability of it. But don't feel yourself pushed: I've no complaints about pmx; on the contrary! Greetz, Arjen -- Arjen Bax | CMG Noord-Nederland B.V. | Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | Eemsgolaan 1 | 9727 DW Groningen | The Netherlands | ICQ # 171090809 | TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219501 | WEB http://www.cmg.nl Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] BWV 474
Rita (Portus Info [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]) wrote on Wednesday, September 11, 2002 5:38 PM: I am looking for a MIDI or MP3 File from the BWV474: Jesus ist mein schoenstes Licht. Does anybody have this? Have a look at this page: http://www.angel.ne.jp/~kcn/?.midi1a http://www.angel.ne.jp/~kcn/midi.cgi/b0474.mid Found with Google (http://www.google.com/search?q=BWV474+midi), it was the first hit. HTH, Arjen -- Arjen Bax | CMG Noord-Nederland B.V. | Sector Telecommunications Utilities | Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | The Netherlands | TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219504 | WEB http://www.cmg.nl Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] Update: MS-DOS woes
Mike Chapman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote Monday, April 22, 2002 11:21 AM: Regarding my pathetic position: I tried one last thing, and it works. Namely, copying the executables and batch file to my working directory and executing the batch file does produce the desired results, so at least I know that the programs are working. Seems that your PATH is not set correctly: the BAT file will be found, because you enetered its full path specification during the creation of the shortcut, but the programs that are started from the BAT-file (prepmx, pmx, etc) will not be found. To set your PATH variable in Win2000, go to the Control Panel, select System. A window System Properties pops up. Select tab Advanced. Push button Environment Variables. A window enabling you to modify your own (User) variables and the System variables pops up. Depending on your access rights (set by the W2k system administrator) you may not be able to change system environment variables. Insert the full directory name of the executable's directory in either the User PATH or the System PATH. Use a semicolon (;) to separate entries. These PATHs will be merged together whenever a new program (e.g., CMD.EXE) is started. Also, the effect is immediate, so no need anymore to restart your PC. Hope this helps, Arjen. -- Arjen Bax | CMG Noord-Nederland B.V. | Sector Telecommunications Utilities | Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | The Netherlands | TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219504 | WEB http://www.cmg.nl To define recursion, we must first define recursion ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] teTeX and Type 1 fonts
Aloha, Stefan Svensson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:49 AM: Half way done, half way to go. Any ideas on how to make teTeX also use the type 1 TeX fonts? As a matter of fact I had to do this myself this weekend after a harddisk crash (for MikTeX, but I suppose it's not MikTeX but dvips specific). Of course, you need the cm fonts in pfb format. Then, search for dvips's configuration file, config.ps. In this file, search for the following block: % To use the CM Type1 fonts. Or use -Pcmz and -Pamz % p +bsr.map % real bakoma instead of interpolated bsr % p +bakomaextra.map % this one *or* the previous one. Not both! % p +bsr-interpolated.map I uncommented the second line: p +bsr.map et voilá! It worked. Perhaps you need to regenerate the TeX filename database. -- Arjen Bax | CMG Noord-Nederland B.V. | Sector Telecommunications Utilities | Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | The Netherlands | TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219504 | WEB http://www.cmg.nl I can handle any crisis: I have children ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] missing slurs in Acrobat 5.0
... not to mention find a copy of Acrobat 4 to install. Where does one go to find outdated versions of software, if one doesn't have an old copy on disk somewhere? Which I, for one, don't -- IIRC, I went straight from version three-something to the current one with its intermittent symptoms of brain damage. http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/win/4.x/ar405eng.exe HTH, -- Arjen Bax | CMG Noord-Nederland B.V. | Sector Telecommunications Utilities Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | The Netherlands TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219504 | WEB http://www.cmg.nl There are three types of people: those who can count, and those who cannot. ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] Slurs missing in Acrobat Reader
Christian Mondrup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I'm inclined to recommend a downgrade to version 4 for those wanting to view MusiXTeX scores with it. That's exactly what I'm going to do. Thanks for the feedback, AcroRead v5 seems too buggy for reliable use. I'll wait for the next upgrade version... Greetz, Arjen. -- Arjen Bax | CMG Noord-Nederland B.V. | Sector Telecommunications Utilities Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | The Netherlands TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219504 | WEB http://www.cmg.nl There are three types of people: those who can count, and those who cannot. ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] adding musixtex, pmx, m-tx to MiKTeX
Aloha Maurizio, since at the moment I am stuck with windows, I installed MiKTeX. But I am not really sure how to add the necessary files for MusixTeX (on Unix and Linux I always did it by hand, it kinda work). Any quick tutorial? I skimmed through the Music Archives without luck, but it could have been just me. When installing MiKTeX, one has to define a tex-directory (c:\texmf) and a localtex-directory (c:\localtexmf). The former is reserved for miktex itself (may be overwritten by later updates), the latter is for your own installed stuff (like musixtex). I installed the musixtex tex-files (*.sty, *.tex) in C:\localtexmf\tex\generic\musixtex, the metafont stuff (*.mf) in C:\localtexmf\fonts\source\musixtex and the tfm files in C:\localtexmf\fonts\tfm\musixtex. (For configuration details and file search rules: see file C:\texmf\miktex\config\miktex.ini. Be reluctant in change this file.) After that, one has to refresh the filename database (MiKTeX options - General - Refresh now). HTH, Arjen. -- Arjen Bax | CMG Noord-Nederland B.V. | Sector Telecommunications Utilities Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | The Netherlands TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219504 | WEB http://www.cmg.nl There are three type of people: those who can count, and those who cannot. ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
RE: [TeX-music] Png icons
Aloha Christian, The GIF/PNG-story continues... Regarding your experiments: I've done some experiments with converting our icons (found at previews, sound files etc) from gif format to png by means of the ImageMagick 'convert' tool. To see the results of that you may have a look at my web archive of recorder music scores found in a section of The Recorder Player's Page http://www.saers.com/recorder/mondrup/. For this page I have been reusing the icons of the Icking archive converted (allmost all of them) to png format. You'll notice (at least with Netscape browsing) that the background colour of the sound file icon found near the top of the page is not transparent to the background color of the web page as is the case with the original gif image used in our archive. I viewed your page at www.saers.com with Internet Exploder 5.0 and noticed that the transparency of sound.png is OK. So, I fear that it is Netscape that does not (yet?) support transparency in PNG-files. Consulting the PNG website http://www.libmng.com/pub/png/pngapbr.html revealed the following w.r.t. Netscape vs PNG: snip Netscape Navigator [Netscape Communications] (Unix/X, Windows 9x/NT, Mac OS, OS/2) - version 4.04 and later; progressive display (replicating method); full alpha and gamma support as of version 6.0PR2 (see Mozilla above) but no transparency or gamma support whatsoever in version 4.x; /snip My guess is, that you use Netscape 4.x or older... What I would like from you is some technical advice on gif-png conversion of our icons. Besides I would also appreciate some references to collections of png icons. The results of my own web search for such collections were poor:-( Personally, I use giftoppm --alpha and pnmtopng -alpha in a 2-step process. (Cannot do it in a pipe, because the latter tries to read the alpha channel file before the former has fully written it.). I suppose that ImageMagick's convert does the same. For a nice collection of (useful?) PNG images, have a look at http://www.pngart.com/IMAGES.HTM. HTH, Arjen -- Arjen Bax | CMG Noord-Nederland B.V. | Sector Telecommunications Utilities Postbus 70237 | 9704 AE Groningen | The Netherlands TEL +31-50-5219500 | FAX +31-50-5219504 | WEB http://www.cmg.nl Java? I've heard of it. It is what I drink while hacking Perl. ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
