Christian Mondrup wrote
... I've run into a problem with a string
argument to
the PMX dynamics command Dbla bla.
The string in question is dolce sempre e col pedale which is
applied on a
chord in the right hand piano staff.
Well that's the problem. PMX was written for harpsichords, and they don't
have pedals :-)
I appended it to the main
note of the
chord and got an M-Tx error message on note duration errors! I realize,
however, that this must be due to a bug in the prepmx parsing:
when I enter
the string expression directly into the PMX file resulting from prepmx
processing I don't get _that_ error any more. But the last
character of the
string is stripped! Did I encounter an (undocumented?) PMX limit on
dynamics string lengths?
All seriousness aside, the limit is now 24 characters. How big do you want
me to make it?
And then to hairpins. According to Don's original PMX
documentation and to
Cornelius Noack's new English version of Luigi Cataldis PMX tutorial
hairpin dynamics can't extend a PMX input block. The above mentioned song
contradicts that! Prepmx inevitably creates a new PMX block for each
measure. But that doesn't prevent me from typesetting a crescendo hairpin
in the vocal staff starting in bar 5 and continuing in bar 6. I
enjoy that
as an undocumented feature:-)
There was some reason I included that restriction in the docs, but at the
moment I can't recall what it was. I just tried two simultaneous cross-block
postscript hairpins and they did work, even across a linebreak. I'll offer a
free copy of the upcoming PMX 2.5 to the first person who can break this
undocumented capability.
--Don Simons
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