Christian Mondrup wrote >... I've run into a problem with a string > argument to > the PMX dynamics command D"bla 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 _______________________________________________ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
