Re: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines

>|I've been using pstricks for drawing various symbols when converting >|mensural notation part books to contemporary notation scores. A drawback >|is that pstricks graphics are not compatible with pdftex (nor with >|dvipdfm). >| >|When looking at the pgf/tikz manual pgfmanual.pdf.gz >|(debi

Re: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines

Christian Mondrup wrote >... >I've been using pstricks for drawing various symbols when converting >mensural notation part books to contemporary notation scores. > Thanks, Christian, that's the answer! pstricks.tex was included in my old MiKTeX. Took some searching beyond the "pstricks web site"

Re: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines

Robin Fairbairns wrote: Don Simons wrote: David Allsopp wrote TeX does provide a way - but sadly it's in the form of METAFONT! Arbitrary lines is one of the reasons for using PostScript specials (or MetaPost). So it would be nice if someone who knows a whole lot more than I do about PostSc

Re: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines

Don Simons wrote: > David Allsopp wrote > > >TeX does provide a way - but sadly it's in the form of METAFONT! > >Arbitrary lines is one of the reasons for using PostScript specials > >(or MetaPost). > > So it would be nice if someone who knows a whole lot more than I do about > PostScript and T

Re: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines

David Allsopp wrote >TeX does provide a way - but sadly it's in the form of METAFONT! Arbitrary lines is >one of the reasons for using PostScript specials (or MetaPost). So it would be nice if someone who knows a whole lot more than I do about PostScript and TeX would once and for all put togeth

Re: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines

Don Simons wrote: > Well, the coding in \varline is still pretty inscrutable, but there's a > comment in the version of it in tuplet.tex saying it builds up the line > with 10-pt segments, evidently from a selected character in the font > musixspx. So that explains why I can't get a line shorter th