RE: [TeX-music] pmx - exotic beams

2005-03-04 Thread Don Simons
I wrote > >Maybe PMX needs a "beam termination > >toggle" option on the "]" that closes the beam? and Andre wrote > Do you mean by 'toggle' adding an option to ']' (someting as ']j' ) for > doing a \roff ? I was thinking of replacing \tbl with \tbu and vice versa, but maybe the same thing could

Re: [TeX-music] pmx - exotic beams

2005-03-04 Thread Andre Van Ryckeghem
Thanks for looking at it, Don. The problem with Don's solution, i think, is that the beam must end high enough. The beams can only be corrected when the layout is fixed. Maybe PMX needs a "beam termination toggle" option on the "]" that closes the beam? A long beamed sequence with - slope must st

RE: [TeX-music] pmx - exotic beams

2005-03-04 Thread Don Simons
Andre wrote > Is it possible to have the beams right without using Musixtex in the > following example? >... Congratulations to Andre for discovering this example. I think it's the first time anyone has come up with this problem. PMX ignores the chord notes when calculating beam positions. So I

[TeX-music] pmx - exotic beams

2005-03-04 Thread Andre Van Ryckeghem
Hi all, Is it possible to have the beams right without using Musixtex in the following example? Only the last bar is satisfying in my opinion. The other bars show what is happening when altering the hight and the slope of the beam. Also changing the width of the bar alters the behavior of the slo