Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

2009-06-02 Thread Hermann Hinsch
Am Dienstag, 2. Juni 2009 05:56:35 schrieb Don Simons: I'm not sure I understand the question, so I'll just give you some general info. \meterfont is a MusiXTeX macro that designates the font to be used for numbers in time signatures. Musixtex.tex assigns it a value depending on \musicsize. So

Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

2009-06-01 Thread Hermann Hinsch
Am Sonntag, 31. Mai 2009 23:11:30 schrieb Don Simons: Christian Mondrup wrote Years ago Mats Bengtsson, Lilypond- and MusiXTeX engraver, provided a specialized a Lilypond TeX font, 'old-feta' offering a number of mensural notation tempus-, prolation- and proportion symbols incl. a half

Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

2009-06-01 Thread Don Simons
Hermann Hinsch wrote As I am using size 16 for typsetting lyrics would it possigle to keep old-feta20 and to use size 16 for meterfont? I don't see why not. But you could also use old-feta16 for the special meters. --Don Simons ___

Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

2009-06-01 Thread Hermann Hinsch
Am Montag, 1. Juni 2009 18:12:27 schrieb Don Simons: Hermann Hinsch wrote As I am using size 16 for typsetting lyrics would it possigle to keep old-feta20 and to use size 16 for meterfont? I don't see why not. But you could also use old-feta16 for the special meters. Don, I have only a

Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

2009-06-01 Thread Don Simons
...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Hermann Hinsch Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:16 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX Am Montag, 1. Juni 2009 18:12:27 schrieb Don Simons: Hermann Hinsch wrote As I am using size 16 for typsetting lyrics would it possigle

Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

2009-05-31 Thread Don Simons
I found a font lcirclew10 in my MiKTeX installation that has quarter-circles in 4 orientations and various sizes. The TeXperts might be able to work out a scheme for combining two of these characters to give a semicircle. That would avoid having to use METAFONT. They have rounded ends but that

Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

2009-05-31 Thread Christian Mondrup
Don Simons wrote: I found a font lcirclew10 in my MiKTeX installation that has quarter-circles in 4 orientations and various sizes. The TeXperts might be able to work out a scheme for combining two of these characters to give a semicircle. That would avoid having to use METAFONT. They have

Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

2009-05-30 Thread David Allsopp
Hermann Hinsch wrote: A question to the TeX experts: Actually I think a METAFONT expert would be more help here but they're such a rare breed... I would like to get a special design of the printed part of a meter, as it is used in early music like this: C3/4 or O3/1, to be exact instead of

Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

2009-05-30 Thread Don Simons
Here a hack using the font lcirclew10: === 1 1 3 2 -3 2 0 0 1 1 20 0 t .\ w4i \\font\halfc=lcirclew10\ \\def\meterfracS#1#2{\ \\kern\internote\raise1.5\internote\rlap{\halfc\char10}\ \\raise6.2\internote\hbox{\halfc\char11}\kern-1.5mm\