Re: [TeX-Music] Ties at repeats
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Don Simons wrote: > > t > .\ > Abepl > g04 t | g t t+.5+.5 | g t+.5-.5 t | g t t / > g04 t t | g t t+1+1 | g t+1-1 t | g t t / > g04 t t | g t t | g t t+2+2 | g t+2-2 t / > g04 t t | g t t | g t t | g t t / > g04 t t | g t t | g t t | g t / > === > > Maybe I don't understand the problem. It appears to me that the limit on tie > adjustments occurs only with bitmapped slurs/ties, but not postscript. Are > you using bitmapped slurs/ties? If so, why not use postscript? Dear Don: thank you for the solution. I learned two things I did not know: first, that you can use several t one after another and, secondly, that adjustement is possible with the Kneifl slurs. I am not an editor of music. Nearly all of my typesetting is done for quick arrangements not to be published, with a minimum of cosmetic efforts. Under standard conditions, the postscript slurs and ties are too much curved for my crowded scores. Of course, that can be adjusted, but usually I simply compare the slurs of the drafts and take what suits me best. Thanks again, Christof ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-Music] Ties at repeats
Don Simons wrote:
> Christof Biebricher wrote
>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Christian Mondrup wrote:
>>> Well, pmxab doesn't accept that with ties:
>>>
>>> ERROR in line 295, bar 16 "+|-" for slur height only allowed
>> in "s"-slurs
>>> v
>>> But it works excellently with slurs
>>>
>>> d45 c8 b a2 g4 b a a s s+0+2.5 Rr /
>>>
>> Dear Don:
>> this question reminds me on a problem I often had:
>> Organ and choir music often have organ points where one needs ties that
>> span many bars. I realize that with alternating between st and t. However,
>> as Christian says, t does not allow for horizontal and vertical correction
>> which is often required in polyphonal music. The change between s and st
>> works but is ugly because ties and slurs alternate. I was doing it by
>> post-editing the tex file. Is there are more elegant way?
>
> Christof, the following source works OK for me:
>
> ===
> 1 1 4 4 4 4 0 0
> 0 4 20 0
>
> t
> .\
> Abepl
> g04 t | g t t+.5+.5 | g t+.5-.5 t | g t t /
> g04 t t | g t t+1+1 | g t+1-1 t | g t t /
> g04 t t | g t t | g t t+2+2 | g t+2-2 t /
> g04 t t | g t t | g t t | g t t /
> g04 t t | g t t | g t t | g t /
> ===
I get the ties I need (with or without postscript ties) by this M-Tx coding
Meter: C
%% Ap
g2 g | { g0 | g0 }{ | g0 }{ | g0 }
>
> Maybe I don't understand the problem. It appears to me that the limit on tie
> adjustments occurs only with bitmapped slurs/ties, but not postscript. Are
> you using bitmapped slurs/ties? If so, why not use postscript?
>
> If you, Christian,
see my prior posting on this topic
> or others have problems with the appearance of postscript
> slurs/ties, perhaps we can change the way they look. I vaguely recall
> sometime in the deep dark past making some such adjustments. I'd have to do
> some digging to see if they're embedded in my system.
>
> --Don
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Re: [TeX-Music] Ties at repeats
Don Simons wrote: > > Can you explain why you're using bitmapped slurs? I know you said only ties, > not slurs, but I don't see how that helps you decide. But if you're worried > about fine detail like the space after the hanging tie, then I'd think you > would also be bothered by the granularity in lengths of bitmapped slurs or > ties. My reason for omitting postscript slurs is that the screen rendering of a pdf score generated with ps2pdf is inferior to pdf scores generated immediately from the musixtex files with pdftex or from the dvi files with dvipdfm. Both of these utilities can't cope with postscript slurs and ties. I _am_ aware that there is no quality loss with printouts from such pdf files. To my needs font based ties are generally OK. If I'm typesetting music involving slurs, then I'll often activate postscript slurs which are much, much better than font base slurs. Then of course I have to accept the inferior screen rendering -- Christian Mondrup, Sheet Music Editor WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive http://icking-music-archive.org/ ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
