Re: [TeX-Music] problem with bar spacing

2010-08-16 Thread Dirk Laurie 
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:39:53PM +0200, Don Simons wrote:
 
 I wonder if there are some stray non-ascii characters embedded in your
 original source. That could confuse PMX.
 
I've encountered this.  It's usually a null character or tab, or some 
relic from a different system's end-of-line mechanism.  Zipping the file
and unzipping it in acommand shell with unzip's -a option often
fixes the problem.  And/or requesting one's editor to expand all tabs
into spaces.

Dirk
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Re: [TeX-Music] problem with bar spacing

2010-08-16 Thread Cornelius C. Noack 

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Robert Schmaus wrote:


Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:25:33 +0200
From: Robert Schmaus robert.schm...@web.de
Reply-To: Werner Icking Music Archive
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To: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music@mailman.nfit.au.dk
Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] problem with bar spacing

hi don  dirk ( everyone else too),

thanks for the warm welcome and for the help, all of which was very
useful.


   I, of course, join in the welcome!!


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still, being a jazz bassist, I worry about controlling the number of
bars per system (we can only count to 4, you know). and in the simple
piece I'm using to teach myself PMX, it, too, would make a lot of sense
to have 4 bars per system since the music is structured that way.
Now I've expanded the piece to 32 bars, and as far as I see there are
only the parameters npages and nsystems given to control the layout.

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As usual, Don gives the instructions on this (as on everything else) 
clearly, succinctly, and unambiguously in the PMX manual, but sometimes 
it might be hard to find for a newbie. That's one of the reasons
why Luigi Cataldi first wrote a PMX 'tutorial' (in Italian), and I 
later follwed up with an English version of this 'tutorial' -- 
essentially a translation of Luigi's work, although pretty much 
expanded and brought up to date (at this moment current to PMX 2.514;

but I'm working on updating to the newest 2.521).

So I hope - and guess - you might profit from browsing this tutorial:

 http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmxccn.pdf

You might want to read section B 5.8 on pp.65, in particular, following 
Leslie Lamport's useful advice !


Hope this hilft

ccn.
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