Re: [Tex-music] PMX puzzle with small music sizes

2011-07-19 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Don Simons wrote: Can anyone explain why the following file, processed with PMX 2.614 causes an underfull box warning and leaves too much space after the signatures in the 3rd system (bar 17)? The syntax is exactly the same at the start of the second system (bar 9), but

Re: [Tex-music] PMX puzzle with small music sizes

2011-07-19 Thread Terrence Enger
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 20:30 -0700, Don Simons wrote: Can anyone explain why the following file, (snip) Lacking the knowledge to do anything *really* helpful, I did my routine chop chop exercise on the generated tex source. I append a reduced source file that still shows more leading space on

Re: [Tex-music] PMX puzzle with small music sizes

2011-07-19 Thread Don Simons
Jean-Pierre Coulon said Off-topic: the engraving standard is to put a downwards stem to notes on the 3rd line According to Read, that's sort of true, On p. 64, he says When the note is ... on the third line ..., the stem may go in either direction, although it is the more common practice to draw

Re: [Tex-music] PMX puzzle with small music sizes

2011-07-19 Thread Don Simons
Terrence Enger wrote I find it interesting that the issue persists even at normal musicsize. I don't see it. When I remove the \setsize commands, the underfull box warning goes away. Some might argue that PMX's default spacing between the signature or meter and the next note is sometimes too

[Tex-music] PMX puzzle with small music sizes

2011-07-18 Thread Don Simons
Can anyone explain why the following file, processed with PMX 2.614 causes an underfull box warning and leaves too much space after the signatures in the 3rd system (bar 17)? The syntax is exactly the same at the start of the second system (bar 9), but there the space is OK. Could it be somehow