Re: [TeX-music] Re: 3rd line of music
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 19:17:22 +0200 (CEST), Joerg Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok! Thank you! BTW: I'm not sure how many users need more >than 2 lines of music. Most scores have at most 2. Hello Jörg, Typesetting classical guitar music routinely requires three voices per stave. This is the main reason that I've given up in frustration every time I tried to change from raw MusixTeX to PMX or M-Tx -- what with putting in what the preprocessors consider "extra" voices and fingering indications, I end up having to add so much inline TeX that it doesn't seem worthwhile! But what the hell... we classical guitarists are used to being a minority, after all. :) Eva -- "Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben. Wer von uns was Rechtes kann, hat's von ihm gelernt." -- W. A. Mozart ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Slurs missing in Acrobat Reader
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 22:19:59 +0100, Arjen Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Something is rotten, but is it the font or the viewer? > Acrobat Reader 5 seems to be somewhat dyslexic at times when it comes to reading its own document format. The other day I tried to view a PDF in Acrobat (on Win2k) and got a string of error message boxes about colour specifications. When the file finally loaded, there were black rectangles where the background colour for some paragraphs and almost all the graphics should have been. The same file displayed perfectly in GSView. I've also had trouble printing certain PDFs in Acrobat -- a 1MB PDF would generate a 10MB spool file and crash the printer driver so badly that it took a restart for Windows to be able to find the printer again. The same file printed perfectly in GSView. I suppose we can always hope that the next version of Acrobat will sort these things out. Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] How to surpass PMX limitations for number of music lines per staff
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:23:26 +0200, zakharenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anybody have any suggestions or, perhaps, even solution? Use plain MusiXTeX? This is exactly the problem that keeps me from using PMX even though it might save a lot of time. I'd need to add so much inline TeX that it hardly seems worth the effort. It's a pity. But perhaps, if the subject comes up often enough on this list, Don will be prevailed upon to produce the necessary bells and whistles. :) Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Slurs missing in Acrobat Reader
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:37:11 +0100, Christian Mondrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >All in all Acrobat Reader 5 seems to be not a fully mature product >version. I'm inclined to recommend a downgrade to version 4 for those >wanting to view MusiXTeX scores with it. Oops. I thought I had Acrobat Reader 5. Turns out I'm still working with 4.05, though. If the brain damage I've noticed in that still persists in version 5, then so much the worse. It comes to something when a piece of software can't read its own native document format properly. Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] meaning of "Ausnahme" in German
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:48:11 +0100 (MET), Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Example: "Ort trägt viel zur Ausnahme der Musik bey" (Quantz) >> > >As a German -- this makes no sense. Could this be a typographical error? > Nope. The word is no longer used in this sense today, but it comes from the verb "ausnehmen" -- and that certainly does still have the meaning of "to make out" (it's even in the mass-market German-English dictionary I have in front of me as I type). So Quantz is saying that the surroundings in which music is performed has a great effect on HOW IT SOUNDS to the listener. I assume this is in the context of live vs. dry acoustics? Quantz, C.P.E. and Leopold Mozart, not to mention Ernst Gottlieb Baron, are full of word usages that make speakers of modern German do a double-take, but it's usually not too hard to work out from context what they mean. Eva PS: Jean-Pierre, please feel free to get in touch with me off-list (or on it, if you think it'd be of general interest) if you come across any other examples of unclear usage. I'll be happy to help as much as I can. -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] meaning of "Ausnahme" in German
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:02:22 +0100, "Sander, Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am sorry, but this is IMHO again a mistyping: "to take out" instead of >"to make out". For my solution to Jean-Pierre's problem see my former >posting. >The word "Ausnahme" NEVER had the meaning "effect", take my word! From the entry under "ausnehmen" in Duden: Deutsches Universalwörterbuch, Mannheim etc. 1989: Sense 5, reflexive: in bestimmter Weise erscheinen, wirken: "Das Bild nimmt sich in diesem Raum sehr gut/unpassend aus." (Which actually does refer to the *effect* of the picture in its surroundings) Sense 6 -- erkennen, unterscheiden, wahrnehmen (in English: to make out -- no typos): "Man konnte den Fußgänger auf der unbeleuchteten Straße kaum ausnehmen." Sense 6 is flagged in Duden as specific to Austria today, so "Bundesdeutsche" speakers of German may not be familiar with it. Nevertheless, it's alive and well here in Austria and will have been in more widespread use in days of yore; Austrian German not infrequently preserves meanings that have become archaic elsewhere. Forming a noun from this sense of "ausnehmen", it seems perfectly plausible that 18th-century German might have used "Ausnahme" in the sense of "perception". I'm still betting that what Jean-Pierre saw in Quantz is *not* a typo or a misreading of "Aufnahme". But perhaps he could quote us the exact reference so that we can double-check the occurrence? Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] meaning of "Ausnahme" in German
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:17:24 +0100, "Jean-Pierre Coulon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since there is some demand for this, either on Mutex, or in private: > Right, here goes. Double-checking those references I could track down at short notice in my facsimile editions of Quantz and CPE, it's now obvious that the word is, indeed, "Ausnahme" as Jean-Pierre originally said. It's also obvious when you try to translate the passages that no one English word will do for every occurrence. But the word in each case refers to how the music is "made out" -- heard -- by the ear, i.e. how it sounds -- whether it be sound *quality* or the actual notes that are played for a specific trill symbol, etc. I hope the following off-the cuff translations are of some use to you. >CPE Bach p. 81, § 30 (or p. 62 of my French translation): > > Wir finden allda auch seine Ausnahme vorgestellt. How it sounds -- its execution (i.e. how it is played) "The half-trill or Pralltriller, which differs from the other trills by its sharpness and brevity, is notated by pianists according to the example in Fig. XLV. There we also find an illustration of how it is played." >p.76, §18 (or p.58 with me): > >In sehr geschwinder ZeitMaasse kan man zuweilen durch Vorschläge die Ausnahme eines >Trillers bequem bewerckstelligen Fig. XXIX. >Die letzten zwey kurtze Noten drücken alsdenn den Nachschlag nicht übel aus. Again, how it sounds -- in this case, how to make it sound good/clear "When the tempo is very fast, it is sometimes easiest to achieve clarity in a trill by means of appoggiaturas Fig. XXIX. The two final short notes then serve well to represent the termination (of the trill)." >complement from 1787 to p.92 §24 (or p. 71 of my translation): > >[long] ... welches eine schlechte Ausnahme verusachet. Sorry, can't seem to find this one in the notes! >end of § 29 p. 94: (top of my p. 74) > >[long] ... und die Ausnahme muß alsdenn ganz natürlich und leichte >ausfallen. How it sounds -- natural and light "(... the art of executing (this ornament) well depends on the skill of playing a good, crisp Pralltriller, and must sound quite natural and light." >Quantz, found on the koelnklavier site: > Are you sure the chapter no. is right for this one? Doesn't seem to be in Chapter 16 of my facsimile reprint. ><16> §. 16. [...] Ich behaupte nur, daß ein jeder Componist solche >Regeln [des Kontrapunkts] zu wissen schuldig sey; die Künsteleyen >aber da, wo es der gute Gesang erlaubet, so zu untermischen suchen >müsse, daß weder am schönen Gesange, noch an der guten >Ausnahme, irgend einiger Abbruch verspüret werde; und daß >der Zuhörer keinen ängstlichen Fleiß dabey bemerke: sondern > daß überall die Natur hervorleuchte. [...] The sense here seems to be the clear intelligibility of the melody (i.e. it shouln't be so weighed down with ornaments that the listener loses track of the fundamental line) "... I maintain only that every composer has a duty to know these rules of counterpoint and should strive to incorporate the ornaments where the melody permits, in such a way that they do not detract in any way from the melody's beauty and clarity, and that the listener does not get the impression of anxious effort. Rather, the [true] nature [of the music] should shine through everywhere. ..." Hope that helps. Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] New PostScript slurs and a problem
Hello all, having installed musixps.tex and related fonts from the package Stanislav posted the other day, I'm running into problems when trying to use it. In a plain MusiXTeX source file, I've input musixps.tex after musixtex.tex, but TeX still doesn't seem to recognise the new slur commands (at any rate, not iBsluru00, which is the only one I've tried so far). The musixps file is being loaded all right, as the log shows -- but when TeX gets to the \iBsluru00 statement it throws out an "undefined control sequence" and chokes. I use MikTeX and made sure to run the "refresh filename database" utility after installing the musixps package, so my TeX installation ought to know that all the files are there. Based on this description, can anyone suggest what could be wrong? I can send the source files and/or the log to anyone who wants to see it. Eva ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Subject: MusiXTeX version T.104
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 15:22:08 -0800, "Alexander V. Voinov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes, a PDF with embedded fonts is larger, but who cares these days? Anyone waiting for the file to come through a thirtysomething kbps modem connection on a pay-per-call unit phone line... Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Cautionary natural signs
Hello everyone, and all the best for a happy New Year to you all! I'd like to solicit a few opinions about the use of cautionary accidentals. Published scores that I own seem to vary wildly between the extremes of putting in as many cautionary naturals as they can (up to and including notating an F natural if the F was sharped two bars before) and assuming that players will need no reminder that a bar line cancels all previous accidentals. With so many contradictory examples of How It's Done, I'm never sure what to do myself when typesetting scores. My personal preference is for keeping the cautionary naturals to an absolute minimum, but it would be interesting to know what other people prefer. What do you prefer to play from -- lots of cautionary signs, or the opposite? Or -- unlikely from the examples I've looked at, but possible, I suppose -- is there actually a hard-and-fast rule for putting the things in? Thanks in advance for any input Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] TeX wizards wanted!
Hello everyone, I'm typesetting one of the Bach Lute Suites with guitar fingering and would like to upload it to the Icking Archive in time for the anniversary of Werner's death. However, I'm running into problems with certain fingering instructions, and I hope that one of the TeX gods on the list can help. The attached file (string.tex) contains a hack of the MusixTeX \Ioctfin macros, which Werner Icking came up with for me to be able to typeset barre chord symbols for classical guitar notation. The result is that \Ibarre... \Tbarre will set a horizontal line with a downward vertical termination to indicate the duration of the barre, and this is exactly what the doctor ordered. The problems start when I try to adapt this thing to denote string number rather than barre chord -- replacing the barre chord symbol in front of the line (a C with a vertical slash followed by a Roman numeral for the fret number and a subscript Arabic numeral for the number of strings that fall under the barre) with a circled numeral. The horizontal line is then supposed to indicate a sequence of notes all to be played on the same string. But two problems arise: 1. The horizontal line overstrikes the circled numeral. 2. The vertical termination *always* points downwards, and this looks pretty awful when the string specification is inserted below the staff. Can Werner's bit of magic be adapted to solve these problems? (Any alterations and improvements would HAVE to leave the vertical termination intact for the barre chord notation. However, it would be perfectly OK to have just a horizontal line without a hook in the case of the string specification.) I'd be most grateful for a solution. Eva Jaksch -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 string.tex Description: Binary data
Re: [TeX-music] Cautionary natural signs
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:03:37 +0100 (CET), Christof Biebricher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I discussed the matter with Werner as we typeset the art of fugue and >we used the following rules for the practical edition: >1) Stick to the rules of modern notation, do not repeat an accidental >in the same bar, do not dissolve it in following bars. >2) Repeat the accidental if it occurs in another voice in the same >system (or a different octava); however, dissolve an accidental >in another voice in the same system. >3) Do not dissolve an accidental occurring in another system, unless >it is a surprising ``Querstand''. >4) Break the above rules using CAUTIONARY or editorial (not ordinary) >accidentials in cases where the context may favor the wrong choice. Dear Christof, thank you very much for your feedback! I'm not quite clear on the precise connotations or Rule 2, though. I'm setting solo guitar music with, usually, a maximum of three voices all on the same staff. Would you repeat an accidental within a bar if it falls in a different octave and/or a different voice under these circumstances? In other words, how would you treat the D sharps and F sharps in the attached example file? Regards Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 accid.tex Description: Binary data
Re: [TeX-music] TeX wizards wanted -- thank you!
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:26:09 +0100, "Rainer Dunker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > IMHO the easiest workaround is > to introduce a manual right-shift of the line start in your \String > macro. I was afraid to try that as someone recently pointed out to me the place in the MusixTeX manual which warns against ever using \kern! Evidently, though, one *can* get away with it occasionally... > Yes, the position distinction is missing in your \C@TO definition. I've > tried to add it based on the \C@TO original, and it seems to work for > your example. > > See attached string.tex for my solution attempt. > It works perfectly and delivers a beautiful result. Rainer, you're fantastic. Thank you -- thank you ever so much! Best regards Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Bar numbering and anacrusis
Hello everyone, Still typesetting that Bach Lute Suite, I'm running into a couple of bar numbering problems when compiling an output file that contains more than one movement. Here's what's happening: First problem: = I specify \nobarnumbers\systemnumbers. This does what I expect when the MusixTeX source is a single file -- it writes bar numbers at the start of every line EXCEPT the first one. To put the suite together, however, I have the music coding for each movement in a separate "master" file, and all the individual files are called from this file by means of an \input statement. The bar numbering commands are at the start of this master file rather than in the separate files containing the movements. In this situation, I'm getting bar numbers at the start of the first line of each movement as well. And this looks pretty silly when the first "bar" is number "zero" because it's an anacrusis... Second problem: == When a \leftrightrepeat occurs in the middle of a bar -- again because of an anacrusis -- I adjust for correct bar numbering by means of \advance\barno-1. So far, so good -- except when the repeat falls at a line break. When this happens, MusixTeX writes the bar number of the partial bar at the start of the line. This, again, looks a bit silly when the anacrusis is just a single demisemiquaver followed by a bar that takes up a third of the line. Is there any way -- preferably a relatively easy one, as my TeX-pertise is severely limited -- to get rid of the system number in first lines and at anacrusis bars? Or do I just have to live with them? Thanks in advance for any and all help Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Bar numbering and anacrusis
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 14:29:52 +0100, "Jean-Pierre Coulon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Put the statements in this very order:
>
>\startbarno=0
>\nobarnumbers
>\startpiece
>{first measures before the first line break}
>\systemnumbers
>{other measures before the first line break}
>{rest of the piece}
>
Hi Jean-Pierre,
This works fine for the first movement in the suite, but for all
subsequent movements the bar number still appears at the start of the
first system.
By trial and error I discovered that if I code \nobarnumbers just
before the last bar of a given movement, bar numbering will be
suppressed for the first line of the *next* movement.
I won't pretend to understand this, but if it works, I'm not inclined
to argue... :)
As for the anacrusis business, now that you've given me the idea of
playing around with \nobarnumbers and \systemnumbers, I've found a way
to suppress the bar numbers at those repeats-within-a-bar.
Now, is there any way to get MusixTeX to write the bar number for the
bar *following* such a repeat? I've tried coding \barnumbers just
before the bar in question and \nobarnumbers\systemnumbers immediately
after, but this seems to result in *two* bar numbers being printed --
the one I want and the one immediately after, which I don't want. Is
it possible to force just one given bar number to be printed in
addition to the system numbering which should run throughout the
piece?
Eva
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Re: [TeX-music] missing slurs in Acrobat 5.0
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:11:55 +0100, "Jean-Pierre Coulon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The solution to this is using acrobat 4 >> Andre > >I hope the average internaut will be able to guess !:-) ... 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. Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Repeats and bar numbers
Hello all, I'd appreciate some help with the repeats and bar numbers in the attached example file. To wit: I'd like to have the bar numbering behave as it does in example 1, but the \rightrepeat as it appears in example 2 (i.e. *not* written a couple of mm to the left of the end of the staff, which is what seems to happen when I force a line-break-within-a-bar with \zalaligne). From looking at Werner's edition of the Bach cello suites, I see that this is possible. Can someone please show me how to make it happen? Thanks in advance Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 repeats.tex Description: Binary data
Re: [TeX-music] Repeats and bar numbers
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:10:29 +0100, Andre Van Ryckeghem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sorry i was to fast with an answer > >\advance\barno-1\setrightrepeat\alaligne\leftrepeat% > >is this what you want? > >Andre Unfortunately, no. That's what I've already got -- it's example two in the file I sent. ( \advance\barno-1 is one line above the repeat symbol coding.) As I said, I need the bar numbering at the start of the next system to indicate a PARTIAL bar, the way the first example does it. It's possible to achieve this by using \zalaligne, as I did in example 1. Unfortunately, \zalaligne seems to cause the right repeat to be written a few millimetres before the end of the line, and I'd prefer it to be flush with the end of the line. Werner managed to combine the two features into what I'm looking for; the only question is how he did it. Does anyone have access to his sources for the Cello suites? Eva -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] dviconcat
Hello all, can anyone tell me where to find dviconcat (and, if possible, other DVI utilities like dvidvi) in a form that'll run on Win2k? So far, all I've been able to track down on CTAN etc. are the C files. Alternatively -- if I end up having to handle the Current Project in a single file -- I'd welcome advice on how to get the footlines to start on page 3... Eva Jaksch -- "Everyone who has anything at all to do with music should be happy, because music is the best of mankind's achievements." -- Sena Jurinac, 1.11.2001 ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] sliding lines <-> notes
On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 15:40:44 -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do a create a sliding line between two notes to indicate
>a glissindo? i.e.
I use the following:
\def\gliss#1#2#3{\rlap{\varline{#1}{#2\noteskip}{#3}}}%
...where #1 = vertical starting height, #2 = length in \noteskips, and
#3 = slope.
Takes a fair bit of trial and error to get the length and the slope
right, though. I'm still secretly hoping that someone will come up
with a glissando line that behaves like a slur from the perspective of
specifying the starting and ending points.
Eva
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[TeX-music] Dvips trouble with MiKTeX 2.1
Hello everyone, I've just upgraded from MiKTeX 1.2 to MiKTeX 2.1. Result: I can't create Postscript output any more. Every darned DVI I've tried to convert, whether via the command line or through YAP's "Print Postscript" menu item, has generated a slew of font errors and resulted in zero output. (See transcript of the YAP log below. Back in MiKTeX 1.2 those same files converted perfectly. Has anyone else had this problem, and/or can anyone suggest what might be wrong? Eva --- Loading page 1... pplru8r: checksum mismatch 32: no glyph! pplru8r: checksum mismatch 32: no glyph! pplru8r: checksum mismatch 32: no glyph! pplro8r: checksum mismatch 32: no glyph! Loading page 2... pplri8r: checksum mismatch 32: no glyph! pplr8r: checksum mismatch 32: no glyph! Loading page 3... pplbu8r: checksum mismatch 32: no glyph! pplr8r: checksum mismatch 32: no glyph! pplri8r: checksum mismatch 32: no glyph! musix20: checksum mismatch ptmr8rn: checksum mismatch 32: no glyph! musix13: checksum mismatch 28: no glyph! pplro8r: checksum mismatch 32: no glyph! Loading page 4... Loading page 5... start: C:\Antigrams\texmf\miktex\bin\dvips.exe -o"bwv995cg.ps" "G:\TeXmfLocal\TeXWork\BWV995\BWV995CG.DVI" This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2002.02.07:1704' -> bwv995cg.ps <8r.enc>. xslu20.pfb: No such file or directory This is DVIPS, t1part module Error: Dvips failed for some reason! -- "Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben. Wer von uns was Rechtes kann, hat's von ihm gelernt." -- W. A. Mozart ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Dvips trouble with MiKTeX 2.1
On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 11:26:56 +0100, "M. Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You might check whether Windows and/or the program you're using to invoke >Ghostscript/Ghostview knows where they are. If I remember correctly MikTeX >tries to update the Ghostscript programs. If the old version of >Gscript/GView were not successfully uninstalled (it didn't work >automatically on my home or work computer), then you will need to uninstall >the old version manually before trying to install the new version. I'm not sure I understand this. Are the latest Ghostcript apps included in the MiKTeX distribution? If so, are the latest version numbers higher than Ghostscript 6.01 /GSView 3.3? That's what I've been using for over a year, and those are the program versions that are still on my computer. At any rate, Windows certainly knows where Ghostscript/GSView are, if the fact that I can start them both from the Start menu is any indication. But running dvips, even from a command line, has the unsatisfactory results that I reported in my last message... Eva Guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995 now available at: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/Instr.html#bach995 -- "Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben. Wer von uns was Rechtes kann, hat's von ihm gelernt." -- W. A. Mozart ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Pretty far off topic: translation issue
Hello everyone, sorry to bother the list with this, but this group is the most polyglot gathering of musicians I know of. Does anyone know the proper English translation for the German term "Terzverwandtschaft"? All my dictionaries, online glossaries, and Web searches have failed to deliver the goods. Thanks in advance for any help Eva ...who, with the help of Christian Mondrup, finally succeeded in fixing her recent dvips trouble. Turns out that the fault lay with a slew of half-installed postscript fonts, and dvips was being told to use fonts that weren't in fact on the system. Rigorous editing of .map files solved the problem. Guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995 now available at: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/Instr.html#bach995 -- "Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben. Wer von uns was Rechtes kann, hat's von ihm gelernt." -- W. A. Mozart ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] PDF display redux
Hello everyone, among the feedback I've been getting for the BWV995 edition now available in the Archive have been the now-familiar reports that "Acrobat 4 doesn't display the ties". What was news to me is that apparently there can be problems with GSView as well. Somebody running GSView 4.0 and GS 7.0 on Win98SE reported that the dotted slur in bar 20 of Gavotte II was missing when viewed in GSView. The analogous one near the beginning of the movement was there, though. I would have expected any problem to affect either both slurs or neither -- the second one, in the MusiXTeX source is a cut&paste job of the first. But that's what this person said he was getting. I have GSView 3.3 and GS 6.01, and both the slurs are OK when I load the file. But then, so are the ties when viewed in Acrobat 4 on my machine... Eva Guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995 now available at: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/Instr.html#bach995 -- "Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben. Wer von uns was Rechtes kann, hat's von ihm gelernt." -- W. A. Mozart ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Upload is back, but different
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:34:24 -0800, Don Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is not anonymous so you'll >need to record the username (mutex-anon) and password (mutex) as well as the >host name (upload.sunsite.dk). Does the actual upload directory remain the same as before? (Recorded in the session details of my FTP client as "sunsite.dk/projects/icking-music-archive/incoming" -- I take it the new version will be "upload.sunsite.dk/projects/icking-music-archive/incoming"? Eva -- "Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben. Wer von uns was Rechtes kann, hat's von ihm gelernt." -- W. A. Mozart ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Music in text
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 21:59:24 +0100, Alexandros Droseltis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello all!
>
>I am writing a music analysis with TeX, and I want to use some music symbols in
>the text, for example:
>
>The rhythmic motiv o| o|_o| o. [symbols] that is used in the first movement ...
Hi Alexandros,
I'm not really sure I understand from your ASCII representation what
symbols exactly you're after, so I'm not sure whether this will be any
use to you. But for what it's worth, here's what I did when I needed
to put some notes inline with a text explanation:
===
\tinynotesize\noindent
Eine Achtelnote \zcu1 \kern 6pt besitzt genau den halben Notenwert
einer Viertelnote \zqu1 \kern 4pt. Zwei Achtelnoten zusammen haben den
gleichen Notenwert wie eine Viertelnote:
\ibu0{1}0\zqb0{1}\qsk\tbu0\zqb0{1} \kern 4pt = \qu1
===
I found it easier at the time to get good spacing results by using the
non-spacing note commands and avoiding overlaps with \qsk and (for
text following note symbols) \kern n pt.
Hope this helps
Eva
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Re: [TeX-music] Music in text -- The Quick Fix (tm)
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 01:14:27 +0200, Alexandros Droseltis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tried the same inserting the line
>\startextract\endextract
>before the text (and after the line "\input musixtex") and it worked, but
>this produced a small system (with a clef) before the text. How could I get
>rid of the system?
Hi Alexandros,
Sorry; I didn't actually know that my suggestion wouldn't work if the
document doesn't have at least one instance of \startpiece...\endpiece
vel sim. before the inline music stuff occurs. I've only ever needed
to do this in one file, and that file happens to be full of such
sections.
Anyway, here's a fix that works for me. Put this before the first
instance of inline music symbols (or right after \input musixtex to be
on the safe side):
\newbox\dummybox
\def\extractline{\setbox\dummybox\hbox}
\startextract\zendextract
There is evidently no law that says that, once you've defined the
contents of your dummybox, you've got to do a corresponding
~\unhcopy\dummybox anywhere to make its contents visible. So this
turns out to be a neat way to give TeX what it evidently wants, a
superfluous music system, while preventing the same from actually
showing up in the document.
I love it when a plan comes together. :)
Happy Easter!
Eva
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Re: [TeX-music] Music in text -- bar lines
Alexandros, you said you needed a bar symbol as well.
\bar won't work as desired; you'll need to fudge something else
that'll do the job. A starting point might be to use $\mid$ plus a
modicum of space afterwards -- something like the following:
\def\tbar{$\mid$\hqsk}
TeX this and see if you like the look of it:
\input musixtex
\noindent
%
% Set up dummy music extract to get note macros to work
\newbox\dummybox
\def\extractline{\setbox\dummybox\hbox}
\startextract\endextract
%
% Define a bar line for music symbols inline with text
\def\tbar{$\mid$\hqsk}
%
% Define a bigger \qskip
\def\mysk{\qsk\hqsk}
%
This rhythm
\zcu1\mysk\zcu1\mysk\zcu1\mysk\tbar
\hqsk\zcu1\mysk\zcu1\mysk\zcu1\mysk\hqsk
is rather monotonous but will do as an illustration...
\bye
Hope this helps.
Eva
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Re: [TeX-music] "Graces" in German
On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:53:48 +0200 (CEST), Joerg Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all! > >Does anybody know a German translation for "grace" or >"grace notes" ? > "Verzierung", "Verzierungsnote". Backed up by Muret-Sanders' general English/German dictionary AND the "Polyglottes Wörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie". (Which, however, lists it only as the *third* possibility after "Anmut" and "Tischgebet" -- a rather strange order of priorities for a dictionary of musical terms!) Eva -- "Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben. Wer von uns was Rechtes kann, hat's von ihm gelernt." -- W. A. Mozart ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Music in text
On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:27:41 +0200, Rainer Dunker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The strength of this method is that you can do virtually everything
>you can do within a normal music staff; its drawback is that you have to
>set its width explicitly.
This is a really elegant solution, Rainer! To prevent nasty line-break
surprises if one specifies too narrow a width, one could include a
\linegoal=1 statement in the macro as I've done below:
8<
\input musixtex
\startmuflex
\def\notesintext#1#2{% #1 = width of music insertion; #2 = music text
\vbox{\hsize#1
\setlines10\smallmusicsize \nobarnumbers \nostartrule
\staffbotmarg0pt \setclefsymbol1\empty
\startpiece#2\linegoal=1\zstoppiece}}
Adjust the width of this extract:
\notesintext{3cm}{%
\Notes\qu0\en\notes\Dqbu 00\en\bar\notes\Dqbu 00\Dqbu 00\en} until it
looks the way you want.
\endmuflex
\bye
8<===
Now, though, can anyone tell me why this macro begins to behave oddly
when used in combination with (or more specifically, after an instance
of) an adapted version that writes a clef? In the three examples
below, the third one leaves extra white space before the first note,
and the space is exactly as much as a clef would take up. How does one
go about fixing this so that one can use both versions in a
music-and-text document?
8<===
\input musixtex
\startmuflex
% macro to insert lineless, clefless sequence of notes
\def\notesintext#1#2{
\vbox{\hsize#1
\setlines10\smallmusicsize \nobarnumbers \nostartrule
\staffbotmarg0pt \setclefsymbol1\empty
\startpiece#2\linegoal=1\zstoppiece}}
% macro adapted to insert music with clef & lines:
\def\musicintext#1#2{
\vbox{\hsize#1
\smallmusicsize \nobarnumbers \nostartrule
\staffbotmarg0pt \setclefsymbol1\treblelowoct
\startpiece#2\linegoal=1\stoppiece}\hskip 5pt}
Here's an insert
\notesintext{3cm}{%
\Notes\qu0\en\notes\Dqbu 00\en\bar\notes\Dqbu 00\Dqbu 00\en}
without clef and lines.
Here's an insert
\musicintext{3cm}{\Notes\qu c\qu d\qu e\qu f\en}
with clef and lines.
And here's the first insert again
\notesintext{3cm}{%
\Notes\qu0\en\notes\Dqbu 00\en\bar\notes\Dqbu 00\Dqbu 00\en}
with the space before it messed up!
\endmuflex
\bye
8<===
Eva
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[TeX-music] MiKTeX: Reinstalling/Upgrading
Hello all, I'm in the process of reinstalling all my software after upgrading to a new PC. Having (re)installed MikTeX 2.1, I see that the "full" installation option automatically installs MusixTeX T.99, which is in one of the .cab files in the download package. Two questions: One: I have a Zip file of T104, downloaded independently back when Daniel announced it. Is it normal for MikTeX to refuse to use this as a "local package repository" to install from, or am I making some basic mistake? Two: On the "Packages" tab of the MikTeX Options window, the musixps PostScript fonts are listed as installed. But when I installed the same version of MikTeX on my old machine, the same fonts were *not* available in any useable form. (That, though, was an upgrade installation over Miktex version 1.[whatever] and not a fresh install like the current one.) So, how can I test whether the fonts are, in fact, installed and available? Three: (ok, so sue me ) Can anyone tell me the current version numbers for: - Ghostscript - GSView - Acrobat Reader (and whether the current version is any better than its predecessors at displaying/printing slurs)? Thanks in advance. Eva -- "Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben. Wer von uns was Rechtes kann, hat's von ihm gelernt." -- W. A. Mozart ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] MiKTeX: Reinstalling/Upgrading
On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 19:32:24 +0200, Christian Mondrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recommend studying Christof Biebrichers comprehensible documention on >how to handle MusiXTeX & MiKTeX. Thank you, but while I agree that his instructions are very comprehensible, they are also regrettably out of date. The current MiKTeX installer (well, reasonably current: I'm using 2.1) does the whole job of installation without requiring manual editing of autoexec.bat. Indeed, no path entries in autoexec.bat are needed at all any more for MiKTeX. Perhaps more seriously, the new MikTeX installer does not place MusixTeX-related files in the local texmf tree at all. Fonts go to C:\texmf\fonts\tfm\public\musixtex; musixtex.tex lives at C:\texmf\tex\generic\musixtex. It might be wise to respect that even when manually installing MusixTeX from a zip file unless it's very certain that, if one subsequently ever tries upgrading MusixTeX via MikTeX's update utility from a CAB file, this will find the files in the local texmf tree and update them there rather than blindly putting them where *it* thinks they should go and thus leaving the system with both an old and a new copy of MusiXTeX present. Either way, the current state of Christof's documentation severely diminishes its value as an aid to installing MusixTeX under more current versions of MiKTeX -- which is why I asked on the list in the first place... Regards Eva Guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995 has moved to: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben. Wer von uns was Rechtes kann, hat's von ihm gelernt." -- W. A. Mozart ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Help! -- refreshing FNDB
Hello everyone, I'm still trying to get MusixTeX back up and running under MiKTeX 2.1 on my new machine... and I can't seem to get TeX to find my personal macro files. They are in the local texmf tree exactly where they've always been. I've tried refreshing the file name database in the MiKTeX Options dialogue, I've tried refreshing the fndb for just the local texmf tree (on the "Roots" tab of the Options dialogue), I've tried running initexmf -u from the command line. No luck. I've tried moving the local texmf tree to the same partition as the texmf tree (though past experience suggests that this really shouldn't be necessary). No luck again. Every time I try to process a MusixTeX file I get the error message "I can't find file "ejdefs.tex"." Needless to say, the file *is* physically present in the local texmf tree.) Can anyone suggest something else to try? Eva Guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995 has moved to: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben. Wer von uns was Rechtes kann, hat's von ihm gelernt." -- W. A. Mozart ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] MiKTeX: Reinstalling/Upgrading
On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 15:25:10 +0200 (CEST), Christof Biebricher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Furthermore, I would urge that somebody USING Windows takes over that >job. While I installed the system on some computers, I do not use it >but occasionally. I might be prevailed upon to volunteer for the job with regard to MiKTeX 2.1 and Windows2000. I'm intending to install an auxiliary OS and essential basic applications on a spare partition on this machine in case of disaster, and while I wasn't intending to include MiKTeX in the list of "essential basics", I could do so and keep a blow-by-blow record if nobody with more (T)expertise is willing to take on the job. Eva PS: The problem with my macro files is solved. MiKTeX 2.1 creates a local texmf tree without any subdirectory called "tex". A trap for the unwary... just because MiKTeX itself apparently has no use for such a directory doesn't mean that it'll read input files from anywhere else. But that's what I concluded from the directory's absence -- and then it didn't occur to me to second-guess myself. Thanks to Mats for setting me straight. Guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995 has moved to: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Bach ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben. Wer von uns was Rechtes kann, hat's von ihm gelernt." -- W. A. Mozart ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Automatic TOC macro trouble
Hello all, Attached is a macro which I found in a TeX manual somewhere on the Web. It's supposed to create an automatic TOC in plain TeX -- and in fact it seems to do so, more or less, but throws out the following error message in the process: 8<--- This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (MiKTeX 2.1) (autotoc.tex (TOC [-1] ) ! Undefined control sequence. \tocgen ...@cadvpageno \pageno =\tocopage \global \tocnew =1\fi l.78 \tocgen \vfil\end ? 8<--- Would someone be kind enough to sort out whatever's wrong with the code? To the best of my knowledge, it's a verbatim cut&paste job from the originating PDF document... Eva Guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995 has moved to: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "...Therefore I swear by God that I will seek out this man whom I fear until I find him, and strike him on the mouth. If heaven were his throne and the earth his footstool, I swear that I would pull him down." "How?" asked the staring Professor. "And why?" "Because I am afraid of him," said Syme; "and no man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid." G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday" ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Update: MS-DOS woes
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:21:14 +0200, Mike Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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. > Mike, Check out the updated HowTo for installing MiKTeX/MusixTeX on Win2k, which Don Simons tells me is now available on the software page of the Icking Archive. Basically, you need to put the executables into a directory that's in your path. This will either be c:\texmf\miktex\bin (where tex.exe and friends live) or a separate directory you create to house your extra executables. In the latter case, you'll need to add a path statement to your autoexec.bat file that points to that directory. The batch files should work even if you have them in a completely different directory as long as you can specify the full path to them from within your TeX editor (I use WinTeX2000). Eva Guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995 has moved to: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "...Therefore I swear by God that I will seek out this man whom I fear until I find him, and strike him on the mouth. If heaven were his throne and the earth his footstool, I swear that I would pull him down." "How?" asked the staring Professor. "And why?" "Because I am afraid of him," said Syme; "and no man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid." G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday" ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] successful installation in MiKTeX using HOWTO
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:42:27 +0200, Mike Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I might >point out that the how-to does not provide directions for updating an >existing installation. Although I feel it is fairly obvious how one >ought to go about it, it is entirely possible that we will still receive >questions about it. > Yes, my feeling too was that if one can install the thing in the first place, updating ought to be a self-explanatory procedure -- just overwrite the old files with the new ones. Or am I missing something there? >The how-to recommended organization of the various files, which I >followed. I especially feel that the new structure is more in alignment >with a standard TeX structure and more intuitive to understand than my >old "organization" (as you doubtless have no trouble believing if you >have read any of my recent posts). > >A big thank you to Eva (and Christof) for their efforts in extending >"musix" to MiKTeX users. The time to thank Christian for his Unix/Linux >how-to is coming... And thank you in return. It's nice to know the file is useful, and that the procedure works when someone other than I applies it! :) Eva Guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995 has moved to: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "...Therefore I swear by God that I will seek out this man whom I fear until I find him, and strike him on the mouth. If heaven were his throne and the earth his footstool, I swear that I would pull him down." "How?" asked the staring Professor. "And why?" "Because I am afraid of him," said Syme; "and no man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid." G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday" ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] a4 paper
On Mon, 13 May 2002 22:23:13 +0200, Jean-Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A4 sized Postscript documents ,send to Lpr using either Ghostview or >Emacs, ar printed 2cm too high (nearly 1 inch). DO the documents print correctly at the DVI stage? If so, you may need to adjust the Page Offset factors in Ghostview. In GSView on Windows, it works like this: In the File/Print dialogue box, click on Printer Settings, and when the Printer Settings dialogue box comes up, click on Properties. Then adjust the X and Y values for Page Offset until the page prints correctly. Eva Guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995 has moved to: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "...Therefore I swear by God that I will seek out this man whom I fear until I find him, and strike him on the mouth. If heaven were his throne and the earth his footstool, I swear that I would pull him down." "How?" asked the staring Professor. "And why?" "Because I am afraid of him," said Syme; "and no man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid." G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday" ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Speaking of guitar chords...
Hello folks, I've never had occasion to use the chord diagram feature of musixgui before, but I had a look at it today just out of curiosity. And what came out is curious indeed, in that every single chord diagram I tried to create comes out in mirror-image, as it were. If I want a dot on the first string, it comes out on the sixth, if I want it on the second, it appears on the fifth, etc. To get 'em to look right, I have to do some serious violence to the string numbering as I know and use it... :) Am I missing something utterly fundamental here, or does musixgui actually number guitar strings back to front? Or do folk/pop guitarists number their strings from the opposite direction (lowest pitch=1) than classical guitarists (highest pitch=1)? Eva Guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995 has moved to: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "...Therefore I swear by God that I will seek out this man whom I fear until I find him, and strike him on the mouth. If heaven were his throne and the earth his footstool, I swear that I would pull him down." "How?" asked the staring Professor. "And why?" "Because I am afraid of him," said Syme; "and no man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid." G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday" ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Asking questions to users
On Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:39:42 +0200 ((MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit), "Cornelius C. Noack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I dont think the whole effort is worth your time: if one wants >individual instruments extracted from a full score, it is much >easier to use the pmx preprocessor, which has this facility built in >from the start. Nevertheless, it would be a very welcome addition to MusixTeX and I do hope Daniel goes ahead and implements it. I don't use the preprocessors as it just isn't feasible to typeset complex classical guitar scores with them; you have to add so much inline TeX that the advantages of faster coding are cancelled out. Please, Daniel, go ahead and do it, using whichever option you prefer. The effort *is* worth your time, and the plain-MusixTeXers out there will be grateful. Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] 1st real MusixTeX piece
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:20:03 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've just finished my first real MusixTeX transcription, >the first piece from Mauro Giuliani's 32 Pieces for >Guitar, and I'd be very grateful to anyone who spares the >time to have a look and send my any comments on the output >or the musixtex source. > Hi Joel, and welcome to the MusixTeX community! Nice to have another classical guitarist come aboard! My compliments on your first effort -- I wish my first attempts at using MusixTeX had looked anywhere near as good! Well done. I'm sending a revised file with my suggestions/additions to you privately. Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] fingering in MusiXTeX ?
On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:44:14 +0200, Patrik Nyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In the archive you'll find a file with (among other things) macros >for guitar fingerings, written by Eva Jaksch. They're great. Thanks for the compliment, but I should point out that the macros have been radically revised (and, I hope, improved) since I posted that package. In particular, I've added several macros for putting fingering next to chordal notes. The only reason I haven't yet made the file publicly available is that I keep intending to write some proper how-to-use documentation first, and I just can't seem to find the time to do so. However, the macros file itself contains usage instructions that should be intelligible enough. Anyone who wants the file is welcome to drop me a line, and I'll send it to them privately. (Jörg, I'm assuming you want it and am sending it without waiting for your say-so! ) Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Off-Topic: EPS graphics
Hello all, TeX-related if not directly concerned with music: Can anyone suggest a quick and easy way to convert a BMP, JPG, GIF (or whatever) image to EPS format? Or is there an (equally quick and easy) way to insert a BMP, JPG, GIF (or whatever) image in a TeX document (*not* LaTeX!!) without first converting to EPS? Thanks in advance Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Off-Topic: EPS graphics
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:53:51 +0530 (IST), Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There is a small commandline proram >jpeg2ps which will do that nicely, the resulting eps being barely larger >(7-bit save encoding) as the jpg file. > >http://www.pdflib.com/jpeg2ps/ > >jpeg2ps -h -r300 file.jpg > file.eps > >always worked nicely for me. Thank you very much! And the same goes for everyone else who took the time to reply. I think this solution will be my best bet; I don't fancy the 20MB download of ImageMagick with my analogue modem... Having just taken five minutes or so for a preliminary test, I find that Jpeg2ps plus epsf.tex does what I want it to do with a minimum of time and hassle. Thanks again. Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] New working version of PMX
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:08:09 -0700, Don Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since one of the changes fixes a bug in line-spacing equalization, let me >take the opportunity to put in a plug for this feature, even though it's >been around for a while. It always bothered me when MusiXTeX made the >vertical distance between systems look unequal, just because there was one >thing that stuck way up or down in one system, even if there would have been >enough space for it when the systems themselves were equally spaced. So a >while ago with some help from the TeXperts I kluged together some macros >that force there to be an equal distance from the top line of one system to >the top line of the next. This is something that's frequently bothered me too. Quite some time ago I posted about this same issue, and someone very kindly answered with a series of macros to insert "struts" in every line to force equal spacing. They do the job all right, but at the cost of much tweaking as one needs to insert them manually on every line. Don, is it possible to use your macros with plain MusixTeX as well? Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Barre chord notation revisited -- appeal to the TeXperts
Hello everyone, Some two years ago, Werner Icking answered a question of mine on MuTeX about how to indicate barre chord fingering in MusixTeX and provided a hack (his own word) of the \Ioctfin* macros to create the horizontal line that's needed for the purpose. Some time later, other readers of this forum helped to adapt this hack to allow for a string number instead of the barre chord symbol before the line. (The resultant macros, plus usage examples, are in the attached file.) The problem with these tricks is twofold: - You can only use them one at a time (at least, I've not been able to persuade a barre chord line and a string line to coexist in harmony) - Once you've input them into your source, you no longer have the option of indicating octaviation lines via the \Ioctfin macros. This is why I've hesitated to make my guitar fingering macros generally available up to now -- it seems somewhat unwise to let loose a MusixTeX add-on that torpedoes parts of MusixTeX's basic functionality. My question for the TeXperts is this: Is there any way around these limitations? With reference to the example extracts in the file, the ideal situation would be to be able to combine 1, 2, 3 AND 4 (or at least 1, 2 and either 3 OR 4), all in a single bar of music. If a solution to this issue can be found, MusixTeX would be almost 100% capable of handling the needs of classical guitar scores, and I'd finally be able to oblige Christian Mondrup and a couple of others who have called for my fingerings file -- with credit given to all contributors, of course -- to be made available on the Icking Archive's software pages. Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935) barre.tex Description: TeX document
Re: [TeX-music] Barre chord notation revisited
On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 13:07:55 +0100, Olivier Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Personally, when I have to draw lines, arrows, and so on, I use the >powerfull package pstricks. If one use the possibilities offered by the >nodes, I think it should not be very difficult to get the desired results. >Perhaps I can try if, Eva, you send me your code and explain me better what >you would like to get. > >Olivier > Olivier, all the relevant code is in the example file I attached to my last post. I don't know how to explain it any better -- perhaps if you processed that file and looked at the examples of the lines I can achieve separately but not in combination, you would get the idea. I must hasten to add, though, that I'm not after merely drawing extraneous lines in the score. I need to be able to anchor the start and end of each line to a particular note and get visually acceptable results when a line break in the score occurs somewhere between the start and the end of the fingering line. This is the way the current macros work, thanks to their origins in MusixTeX's \Ioctfin* ... \Toctfin macros. Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Barre chord notation revisited -- yet more problems
Hello all, Olivier Vogel has sent me a revision of the code I posted the other day. From the DVI he also sent me, I can tell that this revision is exactly what I'm after. The trouble is that, when I process the same file, all I get for my trouble is a slew of "undefined control sequence" errors and an output file with several extraneous vertical lines. Olivier has suggested that the line breaks might be at fault; he's on a Mac, I'm on Windows. I've tried to save the .tex file with other line breaking symbols, but this hasn't fixed the problem. Could anyone else who's running Windows please have a look at the attached file and see whether it works on their system? Regards Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935) barre-new.log Description: Binary data barre-new.tex Description: TeX document
Re: [TeX-music] Barre chord notation revisited -- yet more problems
On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:29:21 +0100 (CET), Christof Biebricher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >However, I found that the missing control sequences were in musixtex.tex. >I loaded the newest version and BIngo, it worked. You should load >T.109 >Christof > Bingo indeed. Thank you, Christof -- the upgrade has solved the problem at my end too. And a heartfelt public thank you to Olivier for sorting out the barre/string tangle! The results are going into musixcg.tex for uploading to the Icking Archive just as soon as I can put together some coherent documentation for the package. Eva ... watching the world turn white in the first snowfall of the season :) Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] "Verbatim" for plain TeX?
Hello all, Does anyone know whether there exists anywhere a plain-TeX equivalent of the LaTeX "verbatim" environment? I've finally found a bit of spare time to start writing up a usage guide for my CG fingering macros file, and it would be useful to be able to include coding examples. I don't want to use LaTeX to write the document as I'm not keen on some of its formatting choices -- and I especially loathe the predefined font. (If someone knows an easy way to kill Computer Modern and substitute Palatino from EVERY detail of formatting in a LaTeX document, I might give it a try.) Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] "Verbatim" for plain TeX? -- Thanks
Cornelius, Robin, Olivier, Arjen, Daniel, Dirk, Christof, Bob, you guys are wonderful. Thanks so much! Now the only problem I have is choosing one out of the many different ways of doing what I want to do... :) Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Free music softawres do not exist!
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:12:45 +0100, Daniel Taupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Translation: > > When editing music scores, there is Finale and Encore. What, no Sibelius, and no Score? >Period (there are other which are specific, but they are not free >softwares). > >I replied that there is MusiXTeX, but this is ignored... I know the feeling... Someone on a classical guitar mailing list wrote to me last summer about my Bach score, saying they very much liked the look of it and would like to know what program I'd used. When, after several mail interchanges in which I'd outlined the basic non-WYSIWYG approach of MusixTeX (and then had to explain what "WYSIWYG" means), I pointed this person at the source files in the Icking Archive, this was the response I got: === >>You don't actually write all that weird stuff do you?!? I did not >>find a source for your piece but I did look at one of the others and >>it really made very little sense to me. It is like it is in some >>kind of code. I had to view the file using quod.tex. I have never >>used that program before. I do have GostScript and that works nicely >>for converting finale files. [.] I really don't see how you >>managed to do all that music never seeing what you are writing. That >>must be really hard! === In the event, this person proved unable (or unwilling) even to try to install TeX, let alone learn MusixTeX. For my part, I've never ceased to be glad that, when faced with the need to set guitar music, I refused to throw money (the price of Finale/Sibelius/Whatever) at the problem and instead invested the necessary time to come to grips with MusixTeX. With a little, and at times a lot of, help from my friends on this list -- and let me take this opportunity to thank them once again for their kindness. Happy New Year to you all! Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Free music softawres do not exist!
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 14:03:59 + (CET), "I. Oppenheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The biggest problem, though, is that there does not >seem to exist an introductory tutorial in English, >providing some simple examples how to work with pmx and >MusiXTeX. I agree entirely, and as a matter of fact I was drafting a comment along the same lines in reply to Christof's post when Irwin's mail reached me. Daniel's MusixTeX manual is one of the best pieces of software documentation I've come across, but for anyone who isn't conversant with TeX to begin with, it's rather daunting to try to teach yourself MusixTeX from it. (It can be done -- I managed it, with a lot of help from listmembers and especially Werner Icking -- but it does take a fair amount of dedication.) So... is anyone already writing such a tutorial or making a New Year's resolution to do so? Or am I going to end up regressing myself to my early MusixTeX days to remember the difficulties I had, and do the deed myself? (For MusixTeX, anyway -- as I've never managed to learn PMX, someone else would have to handle that side of things.) Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] I want your tests
On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 14:22:13 +0100, Daniel Taupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It should be especially tested with HUGE tests, in order to check that >it does not cause errors du to number of registers exhausted. I don't know if this qualifies as "huge", but I've just re-TeX-ed the source for the BWV995 suite in its entirety and encountered no problems whatsoever. (MikTeX 2.1.8 on Windows 2000.) Thank you again for a wonderful music typesetter. Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] I want your tests
On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 08:03:27 +0100, Andre Van Ryckeghem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Andre >(who did not know Finale was for free. > I believe there is a scaled-down variant (with seriously limited functionality) that one can download for nothing. The full version still costs a mint, though. >I bought it once and could not work with it) I'm with you, Andre. I tried Finale once and hated it. Half of the gradient of the learning curve involved in mastering it seemed to result from the programmers' insistence on flouting every single Windows convention they could find (like which functions to put in which menu, like allowing one to delete things by selecting with the mouse and hitting the "Delete" key) and on burying basic, frequently needed functions five levels deep in the menu hierarchy and making the user wade through reams of PDF documentation to find out where exactly they'd put them. I took one look and decided that if I was going to be facing a steep learning curve anyway, I'd just as soon have a learning curve that wasn't 50% due to poor design, and I'd just as soon not pay for the privilege! The rest, more or less, is history... Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Printer problem: will do either ties or dynamics, but not both...
Dear friends, Two questions: 1. When I send a DVI file to my HP Laserjet 2200D printer, the score lands in the output tray stripped of all markings p, pp, ppp etc. (They print out fine in Acrobat Reader after conversion to PDF, but then all the ties are missing.) Can anyone suggest a remedy (preferably, from the perspective of this mostly non-technical computer user, one that isn't too arcane)? 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? For my own purposes I could stay at the DVI stage and fudge the dynamic markings by substituting 12-point palatino italic for MusixTeX's \p, \pp etc. macros, but I need to get this score to somebody in electronic format who will want to view and print it using -- unfortunately -- Acrobat Reader. Thanks in advance Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) ___ 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...
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:09:34 +0100 (CET), Christof Biebricher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 1. When I send a DVI file to my HP Laserjet 2200D printer, the score >> lands in the output tray stripped of all markings p, pp, ppp etc. >> (They print out fine in Acrobat Reader after conversion to PDF, but >> then all the ties are missing.) Can anyone suggest a remedy >> (preferably, from the perspective of this mostly non-technical >> computer user, one that isn't too arcane)? >> >Dear Eva, >I suspect you have changed the fonts. > Nope, only printers. DVI Files that used to print out perfectly on my Epson inkjet seem to lose the p, pp, ppp markings etc. when sent to the laser printer. >Normally programs >list which pfb-fonts have been bound into the pdf file, that whould >give you a hint. Hardly, since the problem is with the *DVI* document. The symbols in question show up all right in the PDF file. It's the DVI that doesn't have them, and this is what I would like to remedy because the DVI is what I usually print for my own purposes. >> 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? >What problem? I haven't got one. > Lucky you -- you must be the only one who hasn't reported Acrobat Reader failing to display slurs and ties! Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) ___ 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...
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:09:34 +0100 (CET), Christof Biebricher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The type K ties and slurs cannot be directly >pdftexed, you have to convert the ps file into pdf by ps2pdf. >I believe that you may also use ghostscript for doing that, but >I always used ps2pdf. Hmmm. I don't use pdftex; I've always used dvipdfm to generate such PDFs as I need. And this procedure results in a file with all ties missing both on screen and on paper. However, your mention of Ghostscript has just saved my bacon. I've now used dvips to generate a postscript file and then converted that to PDF in GSView, and lo and behold, all the ties are both visible and printable in Acrobat 5! Thank you, Christof. I urgently need to get this file back to the composer of the piece (who's never heard of TeX and can't use a DVI file), and it wouldn't have been much use with no ties anywhere in sight... As for ps2pdf, there appears to be no such animal in my MiKTeX installation; however, Ghostscript/GSView contains a few batch files called ps2pdf*.bat. Is this the thing you mean, or is there a separate TeX-related utility of the same name? If so, can you point me to a precompiled version of the same for Windows, please? Thanks again, and best regards Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] ps2pdf
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:48:57 + (CET), "I. Oppenheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ps2pdf is NOT a separate program; it is just a script >file that uses ghostscript to convert ps files to pdf. >This script file is part of the standard ghostscript >distribution and is available for both Windows and >Linux. Some TeX distributions also have a script file >called "dvipdf," which first calls "dvips" and then the >"ps2pdf" script from the ghostscript distribution. Interestingly, my attempts to generate PDFs using dvipdf(m) result in files where Acrobat Reader won't display the ties (though the same PDF file, opened in GSView, looks perfect). Running dvips, opening the PS in GSView, and then converting to PDF from there produces a PDF that, on my system, looks as it should. There is another interesting glitch, though -- when I sent the PDF to the composer yesterday, the feedback I got was that the ties begin a long way from the note heads *when he prints the file*, though it looks all right on screen. Is there no end to the eccentricities of the PDF format... Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Grouping notes within the same beam
Dear friends,
I'm trying to typeset a semiquaver sextuplet figure in two groups of
three notes, with the lower of the two beams interrupted between note
stems three and four.
This is no problem in the case of a straightforward upper or lower
beam, as in the following:
\startextract
\notes\Ibbu0hn6\qb0{=i}\hqsk\qb0{^f}\tbbu0%
\qb0g\nbbu0\qb0i\qb0l\tqh0n\en
\endextract
However, when the beam starts out as a lower beam and terminates as an
upper beam, the results are unfortunate:
\startextract
\notes\ibbl0l6\qb0p%
\hqsk\islurd1K\qb0{^K}\tslur1L\tbbu0\qb0L\nbbu0%
\qb0b\qb0d\tqh0g\en
\endextract
Can anyone suggest a workaround that forces the *lower* of the two
beams to be interrupted in this example?
Thanks in advance
Eva
Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995:
http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf
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"People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is!
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is
the only secret of style."
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Re: [TeX-music] Grouping notes within the same beam
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:32:48 +0100 (CET), TORRI Vincent
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've tried this. It seems to work, but it is awfully programmed...
>First, i use \ibbu (as using \ibbl and \tbb* seems to keep the lowest
>beam). I change the starting pitch of the beam. I put the note at pitch p
>with lower stem (with no spacing). I shift it to get it a the right place
>and I increase the length of its stem so that its stem reaches the beam.
>Then I put a phantom note to simulate the first note of the upper beam.
> It requires some work but it works...
>
>\notes\ibbu0{`d}6\stemlength{8}\roff{\zql{'p}}\stemlength{4.66}\sk\sk%
>\hqsk\islurd1K\qb0{^K}\tslur1L\tbbu0\qb0L\nbbu0%
>\qb0b\qb0d\tqh0g\en
For crying out loud. Thanks, Vincent -- I was so sure the solution
would be a complicated one that it never occurred to me to try
offsetting the first note to align with the beam!
As it turns out, the phantom beam members etc. aren't strictly
necessary; the following code seems to work acceptably:
\def\smallroff#1{\roffset{0.95}{#1}}%
\startextract
\addspace{-1\afterruleskip}%
\notes\ibbu0J6\smallroff{\qb0p}%
\hqsk\islurd1K\qb0{^K}\tslur1L\tbbu0\qb0L\nbbu0%
\qb0b\qb0d\tqh0g\en
\endextract
The flaw in this setup is that there's a little too much space between
the start of this beamed group and whatever precedes it unless you
perform the \addspace maneuvre with a negative value of
\afterruleskip. In the score I'm currently setting, this of beam
occurs right after a bar line, and in this situation the \addspace
correction appears to work well. I hope there aren't any hidden
catches that would cause problems somewhere else...
Eva
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Re: [TeX-music] Grouping notes within the same beam: collector's point of view.
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:05:58 +0100, Jean-Pierre Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As a collector of sheet music, I can say that this way linking two sets >of double beams with a single beam is a 19th century engraving >habit. You'd better write two *independent* sets of *three* >semiquavers, unless you want to mimic old editions. > I don't know about the wider traditions of music engraving in general, but this sort of beaming occurs quite extensively in classical guitar muic written in the last decade or so. And the work I'm currently typesetting (for the composer himself, whose beaming practice in the manuscript I'm reproducing) is a classical guitar composition written in July 2000. >BTW, is the British musical terminology more welcome than the >US one, in this list ? IMHO US terminology has the advantage >of beeing a "clone" of the German one. > I'm not aware that any preference has ever been stated on the list; as far as I can tell, everyone uses whichever terminology they're most familiar with. For my part, I use the British system because that's what I grew up using. I can't get my mind round all those fractions in the American system even though the German terms are no problem for me. Just a quirk in the way my mind works, I suppose... :) Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Grouping notes within the same beam
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:29:26 +0100, Jean-Pierre Coulon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think this requires less efforts:
>
>\startextract
>\notes\ibbu0L6\roff{\qb0p}%
>\hqsk\islurd1K\qb0{^K}\tslur1L\tbbu0\qb0L\nbbu0%
>\qb0b\qb0d\tqh0g\en
>\endextract
>
This would be perfect if it weren't for the extra white space caused
by the \roff at the beginning of the figure -- not very noticeable in
a single-bar extract but unsightly in the context of a continuous
score
If you compare the following multi-bar versions, you'll see that a
\qsk *backwards* fixes the problem:
\startextract % your version, with an empty bar inserted before it
\notes\sk\sk\en\bar
\notes\ibbu0L6\roff{\qb0p}%
\hqsk\islurd1K\qb0{^K}\tslur1L\tbbu0\qb0L\nbbu0%
\qb0b\qb0d\tqh0g\en
\endextract
\def\lqsk{\off{-1\elemskip}}%
\startextract % the solution I eventually came up with
\notes\sk\sk\en\bar
\notes\lqsk\ibbu0J6\smallroff{\qb0p}%
\hqsk\islurd1K\qb0{^K}\tslur1L\tbbu0\qb0L\nbbu0%
\qb0b\qb0d\tqh0g\en
\endextract
>(Eva, I hope you appreciate my ceasing to contradict your style :-)
>
Jean-Pierre, you can contradict *my* style as much as you like. It's
the thought of contradicting the *composer's* style that worries me.
Now there's an artist who knows exactly what he wants!
Eva
Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995:
http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf
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[TeX-music] Ossia
Dear friends, How would I go about setting (in plain MusixTeX) a an ossia of one or two bars' length? I can't seem to find anything in the manual about this... Thanks in advance Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Ossia
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:52:49 +0100, Olivier Vogel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>For ossia handling, you have to use \stoppiece, increase the number of
>instruments, specify a smaller staff size for the ossia line, insert your
>ossia code after \contpiece. Then you have to restore the preceding
>settings: \stoppiece, restore the previous number of instrument, the normal
>size of staff (if necessary) and continue as usual with \contpiece.
>
Dear Olivier,
OK, with those instructions, this is as far as I got:
8<---
\input musixtex
\startmuflex
\startpiece
\bigaccid%
\NOtes\qu{cdef}\en
\stoppiece
\instrumentnumber2
\settrebleclefsymbol{1}{\treblelowoct}%
\setsize2\smallvalue
\settrebleclefsymbol{2}{\treblelowoct}%
\contpiece
\NOtes\zqu c&\ql l\en
\NOtes\zqu d&\ql m\en
\NOtes\zqu e&\ql n\en
\NOtes\zqu f&\ql o\en
\stoppiece
\instrumentnumber1
\contpiece
\NOtes\qu{ghij}\en
\linegoal=1
\Endpiece\endmuflex\bye
8<---
...which insists on spreading itself over three lines, as it seems the
"extra instrument" demands a full line's width all to itself despite
the fact that it's only supposed to exist for one single measure.
Yikes! What now?
Eva
Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995:
http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf
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Re: [TeX-music] Ossia
Hello again,
Having received Rainer Dunker's post and followed up his link to the
list archives, I'm starting to think that this ossia caper is a lot
more trouble than it's worth!
My best bet (read: about the only thing in this whole arcane mess that
I have even half a hope of pulling off) is probably going to be the
TeX box solution. Below is my first try:
8<---
\input musixtex
\startmuflex
\startpiece
\NOtes\qu{cdef}\en\bar
%
% begin ossia code
%
\newbox\ossiaI
\def\extractline{\setbox\ossiaI\hbox}%
\setsize1\tinyvalue
\startextract
\NOtes\qu{efgh}\en
\endextract
%
\NOtes\zcharnote{x}{%
\loffset 3{~\unhcopy\ossiaI}}\qu{ghij}\en\barre
\NOtes\qu{klmn}\en\barre
\NOtes\qu{opqr}\en
\Endpiece
\endmuflex\bye
8<---
Problems with this:
1. \bar no longer works after the box is posted! (The alternative
\barre evidently does.)
2. Setting the ossia fragment to a different staff size results in a
complete mess that I haven't, so far, been able to flail my way out
of.
Eva
Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995:
http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf
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Re: [TeX-music] Text below a score
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:53:00 +0100, "Cornelius C. Noack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hope this hilft. How appropriate to quote that most typical of Werner's valedictory statements at this moment -- two days after the second anniversary of his all-too early passing. I'm sure I'm not the only one on this list who can't typeset a single bar of MusixTeX without thinking of him. Thank you for this public reaffirmation of what he gave to all of us in knowledge and friendship. Here's to you, Werner. Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] OT: Acrobat Bug
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:34:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Acrobat Reader 5.0 & 5.1 doesn't display all horizontal MusiXTeX slurs, means >\sluru 1p \tslur 1p, where p is an arbitrary pitch value. GhostView & >Acrobat Reader 4.x display this slur(s) in a correct way. How I have to change >the slur to avoid this error? I can use no horizontal slurs, like sluru 1p --- tslur >1p+1, >but this is an ugly solution. Any better solution? Hi Frauke, what are you using to generate the PDF? On my system, this problem occurs when I create the PDF using dvipdfm. However, if I use dvips to create a Postscript file, then open that in GSView and create the PDF in there using the "Convert" feature, Acrobat 5.0 correctly displays all the slurs. Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] How to setup the with of only one line?
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003 at 9:59:49 AM, you wrote: > Is it possible to modify the width of a line? > The coda is only two bars long, and it doesn't look fine > when those bars are stretched to fit the whole width of the > page. Perhaps the following would work (I haven't tried it): put in an \endpiece after the end of the last complete line, then code the remaining two coda bars between \startextract...\endextract (which will make them only as long as they need to be, not stretched to fit the page), and insert them after the last full line as an hbox. Eva -- You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple. - Ellis Peters, _Brother Cadfael's Penance_ ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Online music notation guide
FYI, FWIW, etc. :) http://www.mpa.org/notation.pdf Eva ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] Fwd: TeX installation problems
Dear friends, I've had a question from somebody who used my MusixTeX installation guide and now has problems processing a file -- please see below for the exact error messages that he's getting. (I notice, without knowing whether this may be relevant, that he has installed MikTeX 2.3., whereas my install guide was written for 2.1..) The file in question is Daniel Taupin's adagio.tex, which processes perfectly on my machine. Can someone help Floris sort out his installation? Regards Eva On Monday, July 7, 2003 at 4:32:49 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ===8<==Begin forwarded message=== [...] I was installing MikTex 2.3.1222 and found that after doing exactly as your manual instructed, MusixTeX reported all kinds of errors. When processing a musixtex .tex-file, it put this, recurring, in the error log file: ! Undefined control sequence. l.316 \rm ? ! Font \eightrm=nur8 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. \font l.368 \font \eightbf=\fontid bx8 [...] Regards, Floris van Vugt http://vanvugt.cjb.net mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ===8<==End forwarded message= ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Sharp sign within \setname
On Monday, August 11, 2003 at 11:22:30 AM, you wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 10:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> How can I persuade MusixTeX to print a sharp sign instead of the "*"
>> in the following extract?
>> \setname1{\circleit{3}\kern 12pt = G *}%
> How about
> \setname1{\circleit{3}\kern 12pt = G$\sharp$}%
> ?
I admit that I never thought of that one, and of course it works, but
the sharp sign this method uses doesn't seem to be from the same font
that MusixTeX uses. Is there a way to put MusixTeX's own sharp sign
there without generating a slew of error messages?
Eva
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[TeX-music] Sharp sign within \setname
Dear friends,
How can I persuade MusixTeX to print a sharp sign instead of the "*"
in the following extract?
\input musixtex
\parindent 1.5 cm
\setname1{\circleit{3}\kern 12pt = G *}%
\startmuflex\startpiece
\NOTes\wh p\en
\endpiece\endmuflex
\bye
(The project is vihuela music transcribed for the guitar and requires
that the third string be tuned to G#.)
Regards
Eva
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[TeX-music] Fwd: TeX installation problems
Dear friends, (A repost from several weeks ago; apparently nobody responded the last time): I've had a question from somebody who used my MusixTeX installation guide and now has problems processing a file -- please see below for the exact error messages that he's getting. (I notice, without knowing whether this may be relevant, that he has installed MikTeX 2.3., whereas my install guide was written for 2.1..) The file in question is Daniel Taupin's adagio.tex, which processes perfectly on my machine. Can someone help Floris sort out his installation? Regards Eva On Monday, July 7, 2003 at 4:32:49 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ===8<==Begin forwarded message=== [...] I was installing MikTex 2.3.1222 and found that after doing exactly as your manual instructed, MusixTeX reported all kinds of errors. When processing a musixtex .tex-file, it put this, recurring, in the error log file: ! Undefined control sequence. l.316 \rm ? ! Font \eightrm=nur8 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. \font l.368 \font \eightbf=\fontid bx8 [...] Regards, Floris van Vugt http://vanvugt.cjb.net mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ===8<==End forwarded message= ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] Daniel Taupin
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003 at 1:21:32 AM, you wrote: > Daniel Taupin passed away on August, 26th. He died accidentally > while climbing in the Alps. I am deeply saddened by this news. It is much to my loss that I never met Daniel or corresponded with him beyond a very few e-mails, but all of us who use his MusixTeX owe so much to his efforts. Not only did he create a music typesetting system that easily rivals (or surpasses) commercial software in output quality, but he also provided one of the best user manuals I've seen anywhere, and then gave away the whole lot free of charge to all who were willing to take the time to learn the system. We have lost a generous spirit, a technical master, and a true music lover. Daniel will be always missed, and never forgotten. Eva Jaksch ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[TeX-music] dviconcat
Dear friends, some time ago, someone on this list sent me the DOS binary of dviconca.exe along with instructions for use to the following effect: dviconca -o outputfile infile1 infile2 infile3 I've been trying this without useful results; all I get is DVI files of size 0 bytes, or an output file containing nothing but infile1, or ten-megabyte monstrosities (from two 20k input files) which YAP refuses to open. Can anyone tell me what's going wrong here? TIA Eva ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] dviconcat
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 4:15:42 AM, you wrote: > The syntzx you gave is correct; I use it all the time. That's what I was afraid of. Still doesn't work at my end... > I always use > filenames that explicitly end in .dvi although I haven't tested whether > that's essential. OK, when I do dviconca -o test.dvi file1 file2 (without extensions), I get a test.dvi of size 0 bytes. When I add the file extensions, the dos box stays open for a couple of minutes and eventually churns out a 62 **MEGABYTE** DVI file (where file1 and file2 are both under 20k in size). Attempting to open this in YAP produces the error message "Bad DVI file". Is it possible that my copy of dviconca.exe (compiled for DOS) is somehow corrupt? If so, does anyone know where I could find a clean copy? Unfortunately the utility isn't part of MikTeX, and it seems to be very difficult to get hold of these things in DOS/Windows versions on the Web... Eva ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] dviconcat
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 4:11:18 PM, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote >> ... does anyone know where I could find a clean >> copy? Unfortunately the utility isn't part of MikTeX, and it seems to >> be very difficult to get hold of these things in DOS/Windows versions >> on the Web... >> > Yes it is, and that's why I added my copies to our archive several years > ago: > http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/add-ons/dvitools.zip Hmmm. Thanks -- it looks as though my executables in fact come from this archive, as they bear the same date and time stamp as those in your zip file. Unfortunately, having downloaded a fresh copy and placed it in my local binaries directory, I'm still getting the same problems. Interestingly enough, I can't seem to get any usable results from dvidvi either, whether I use the copies in the local binaries dir (and yes, this *is* in my system path) or copy them to the directory with the dvi files. Eva ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
