Re: [TeX-Music] \varline
In traumerei of Schumann, http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/schumann/traeum.pdf there \varline is used for making sloped hairpins, they are obsolete now if using postscript hairpins: % #1= origine #2= lungnezza #3= altezza linea inferiore #4= altezza linea superiore % #1= oorsprong #2= lengte #3= stijging onderste lijn #4= stijging bovenste lijn \def\slopecresc#1#2#3#4{\rlap{\varline{#1}{#2\noteskip}{#3}}% \rlap{\varline{#1}{#2\noteskip}{#4}}}% % Andre - Original Message - From: "Jean-Pierre Coulon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Werner Icking Music Archive" Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:13 AM Subject: [TeX-Music] \varline > Page 67 of Don's last version of the MusiXTeX documention says that: > > \varline ... could be used ... to construct various obscure baroque > ornaments... > > It seems the slope of \varline is somewhat limited, in the same way as a > beam > slope, and this limits the possibilities of ornaments you can draw. > > Has anybody examples of nice ornaments made with \varline? > > Regards, > > > Jean-Pierre Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___ > TeX-music mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-Music] \varline
I used this in one of my editions. The macros \arpg and \arpgu are in fact defined in pmx.tex but I repeated the definitions here for clarity. 1 1 2 4 2 4 0 0 1 1 20 0 t .\ w3i % % Slanted line arpeggio or coule ornament % \\def\arpg#1#2{\ \\roffset{#2}{\zcharnote0{\raise#1\internote\hbox{\varline0{6pt}{20}\ \\def\arpgu#1{\arpg{#1}{.8}}\ % \arpgu7\ g2u4 zd zb zg / --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Jean-Pierre Coulon > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 11:14 PM > To: Werner Icking Music Archive > Subject: [TeX-Music] \varline > > > Page 67 of Don's last version of the MusiXTeX documention says that: > > \varline ... could be used ... to construct various obscure baroque > ornaments... > > It seems the slope of \varline is somewhat limited, in the same > way as a beam > slope, and this limits the possibilities of ornaments you can draw. > > Has anybody examples of nice ornaments made with \varline? > > Regards, > > > Jean-Pierre Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___ > TeX-music mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-Music] \varline
Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: > Page 67 of Don's last version of the MusiXTeX documention says that: > > \varline ... could be used ... to construct various obscure baroque > ornaments... > > It seems the slope of \varline is somewhat limited, in the same way as a beam > slope, and this limits the possibilities of ornaments you can draw. > > Has anybody examples of nice ornaments made with \varline? > Where \varline isn't sufficient for drawing the postscript based graphics utility 'pstricks' comes in handy, see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/base/ -- 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