Re: [Tex-music] Upcoming PMX

2017-12-16 Thread Don Simons
Andre, your suggestion certainly does put the b4 more to the right, aligning it with the other staff as if it were the last note of a simultaneous sextuplet. If you wanted the b to be half as long as one of the triplet notes, you would probably want to use that notation. But let’s be clear t

Re: [Tex-music] Upcoming PMX

2017-12-16 Thread Andre Van Ryckeghem
Perhaps, the ‘b4’ in r4Fx3nf+3 b4 c4 / should be more to the right. This could also be an solution for the rare cases: r4+2Dx6n r+5D r-2 b4 c4 / Andre From: Don Simons Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2017 8:03 PM To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Upcoming PMX I’d lik

Re: [Tex-music] Upcoming PMX

2017-12-16 Thread Bob Tennent
>|It's a very, very rare notation used by Bach, and no one >|else I know of. Very very rare in *printed* scores produced by programs that assume a dot means half the value of the note to which it is appended. That was not true in the Baroque era. A dot simply meant that the note was longer, but

Re: [Tex-music] Upcoming PMX

2017-12-16 Thread Don Simons
Christian Mondrup wrote > On 2017-12-16 22:17, Dirk Laurie wrote: > > 2017-12-16 21:03 GMT+02:00 Don Simons : > > > >> I’d like to point out that the notes in the F-tuplet I discussed > >> earlier could be typeset without using the F-option at all, but with > >> a horizontal shift instead. Then if

Re: [Tex-music] Upcoming PMX

2017-12-16 Thread Christian Mondrup
On 2017-12-16 22:17, Dirk Laurie wrote: 2017-12-16 21:03 GMT+02:00 Don Simons : I’d like to point out that the notes in the F-tuplet I discussed earlier could be typeset without using the F-option at all, but with a horizontal shift instead. Then if you wanted to raise the rest you could use th

Re: [Tex-music] Upcoming PMX

2017-12-16 Thread Dirk Laurie
2017-12-16 21:03 GMT+02:00 Don Simons : > I’d like to point out that the notes in the F-tuplet I discussed earlier > could be typeset without using the F-option at all, but with a horizontal > shift instead. Then if you wanted to raise the rest you could use the > standard command. This is concep

Re: [Tex-music] Upcoming PMX

2017-12-16 Thread Don Simons
I’d like to point out that the notes in the F-tuplet I discussed earlier could be typeset without using the F-option at all, but with a horizontal shift instead. Then if you wanted to raise the rest you could use the standard command. --Don -- 2 1 2 4 2 4 0 0 0 3

[Tex-music] Upcoming PMX

2017-12-16 Thread Don Simons
I’m very close to releasing a new version of PMX reflecting various fixes requested by Andre and Christian over the last several weeks. Before finalizing, I’d like some opinions about how far to go with one of them. Christian has used some constructions like r4Fx3 b. With notes, this gives a do