Re: [Tex-music] PMX: interference betweeen tuplets and dynamic marks

2019-02-21 Thread Don Simons
I cannot reproduce the error. What version of PMX are you running? Is the error from PMX or from MusiXTeX? What is the error message? It might help if you provide a screen shot of the messages being generated. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex

Re: [Tex-music] Musixtex

2019-03-21 Thread Don Simons
can produce a MIDI file by itself, without having installed TeX or MusiXTeX. But you would not be able to see the score, so editing the MIDI file would be very difficult. Good luck! --Don Simons From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-bounces+dsimons=roadrunner@tug.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [Tex-music] PMX stem length error on beamed octave chords

2019-04-09 Thread Don Simons
This seems to fix it: ... Arb w60m [-6 g83 zg- a8+ za- ] b4+ zb- e4s ze- / b84e a8 g4 g4e // d2+ zd- c4+ zc- / But of course if I ever change the code in this area, then this would probably give a different result. I haven't done lots of checking, but I believe it's been the case since day 1 t

Re: [Tex-music] PMX stem length error on beamed octave chords

2019-04-09 Thread Don Simons
Dirk Laurie wrote > Op Di. 9 Apr. 2019 om 20:00 het Don Simons < <mailto:dsim...@roadrunner.com> > dsim...@roadrunner.com> > geskryf: > > > > This seems to fix it: > > > > ... > > Arb w60m > > [-6 g83 zg- a8+ za- ] b4+ zb- e4s ze-

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: switch to smaller notes type (German "Stichnoten")

2019-04-10 Thread Don Simons
I finally figured out that you’re asking about cue notes. Short answer: it’s not easy. You have to use inline TeX. There are some macros in pmx.tex that simplify some things a little bit: \def\smno#1{\off{.17\qn@width}\tinynotesize#1\normalnotesize\off{-.17\qn@width}}% \def\pmno#1{\roffset{.

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: switch to smaller notes type (German "Stichnoten")

2019-04-11 Thread Don Simons
y\ f1 za ] r2db / === Am 10.04.2019 um 18:12 schrieb Don Simons: I finally figured out that you’re asking about cue notes. Short answer: it’s not easy. You have to use inline TeX. There are some macros in pmx.tex that simplify some things a little bit: \

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: switch to smaller notes type (German "Stichnoten")

2019-04-11 Thread Don Simons
I'm not familiar with \boxit or \circleit and I'm not sure what you mean by "rehearsal marks". Maybe an example would help. But if they're text, you can put them anywhere you want using the D"..." command with vertical and horizontal shift options. --Don >Hi Don, >it is amazing how easy it is

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: Changing of numbers of instruments

2019-04-12 Thread Don Simons
Excellent bug and bug report! I haven't solved it yet, but it goes away if you only replace the last line of movement 3 with r0 | c04 /. So there's some very subtle problem with the way PMX is handling centered whole-bar rests. More as it develops. --Don > -Original Message- > From: Te

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: Changing of numbers of instruments

2019-04-12 Thread Don Simons
ignment both horizontally and vertically in the final image, this would be a PERFECT workaround. --Don > -Original Message- > From: Dirk Baack [mailto:d...@baack-lamstedt.de] > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2019 1:15 PM > To: Don Simons > Subject: Re: [Tex-mu

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: xtuplets horizontal shift of notes

2019-04-13 Thread Don Simons
Finally an easy one. RTFM! (Section 2.3.9) = 1 1 2 4 2 4 0 0 1 1 20 0 t ./ w2i X1: c25x3 c c X: // d25x3 d d / --Don > -Original Message- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music- > bounces+dsimons=roadrunner@tug.org] On Behalf Of Dirk Baa

[Tex-music] A mystery for the TeXperts

2019-04-14 Thread Don Simons
is, but if line 15 is replaced by line 16, it fails. The only thing that changes is the argument of \centerbar within the \atnextbar command, from \liftpause0 to \pause . I would very much appreciate having one of the TeXperts explain why it works in one case but not the other

Re: [Tex-music] MusiXTeX/pmx sources

2019-04-20 Thread Don Simons
Bob Tennent wrote ... > Instead of duplicating IMSLP, for no evident benefit, I suggest that authors > can send sources for M-Tx, PMX, autosp or MusiXTeX processing to me for > inclusion in "contrib" > sub-directories of subsequent CTAN releases of those packages. They will > then be incorporated i

Re: [Tex-music] MusiXTeX/pmx sources

2019-04-20 Thread Don Simons
maurizio .mau. codogno wrote >I agree that a section of sources would be very useful: as many have said, > it is easier not to start from scratch if you want to edit a piece of sheet > music. >(I would even accept abc sources!) But I also >think that it would be better >to >have it as a side

Re: [Tex-music] Problem with pmx file

2019-04-24 Thread Don Simons
I can't reproduce that error, and beyond that I'm very confused by it, because it refers to line 25, which appears to properly list the two clefs. It's doubly confusing because in the error message PMX should print out the line up to the point of the error. When I run PMX 2.84, I do get another seq

[Tex-music] Line-length challenge for the TeXperts

2019-04-28 Thread Don Simons
Can anyone come up with a cleaner way to shorten a single line…not necessarily the last one on the page…in PMX (without trial and error)? If so I may incorporate it into PMX. --Don From: Don Simons [mailto:dsim...@roadrunner.com] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 10:03 PM To: 'D

Re: [Tex-music] Line-length challenge for the TeXperts

2019-04-29 Thread Don Simons
"Hello"+8-2 Rz / > = > > You get the attached result. > > Regards > > -- > Danai > > On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 23:51, Don Simons > wrote: > > > > Can anyone come up with a cleaner way to shorten a single line…not >

Re: [Tex-music] Line-length challenge for the TeXperts

2019-04-30 Thread Don Simons
at the beginning (bar33). Andre From: Don Simons Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2019 5:51 PM To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' Subject: [Tex-music] Line-length challenge for the TeXperts Can anyone come up with a cleaner way to shorten a single line…not necessarily the last

Re: [Tex-music] Line-length challenge for the TeXperts

2019-05-02 Thread Don Simons
Bob Tennent wrote > Hi Don. > > Here's how to do this in musixtex, based on Olivier's coda.pmx. Notice there > are *three* groups of special commands, before and after the "short" > system, and then after the 2nd short system (or text after the short system). With great thanks to Bob, And

Re: [Tex-music] Line-length challenge for the TeXperts

2019-05-02 Thread Don Simons
r / \\\def\alaligne{\ \\\endpiece\egroup\egroup\ \\\startpiece\addspace\afterruleskip\let\alaligne\oldalaligne}\ L5 c44 d e f g a b c / c44 d e f g a b c / === Thanks, --Don From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-bounces+dsimons=roadrunner@tug.org] On Behal

Re: [Tex-music] Problem with pmx file

2019-05-04 Thread Don Simons
RTFM. The first of the four numbers is the numerator of the true meter, and it cannot be zero. You would have zero quarter notes per bar. And BTW the 3rd and 4th numbers being 0 and 4 means the printed meter would be a single digit 4, which I don't think I've ever seen used. --Don > -Original

Re: [Tex-music] strange reaction of PMX 284

2019-05-07 Thread Don Simons
Well, I could have created a better error message :). --Don From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-bounces+dsimons=roadrunner@tug.org] On Behalf Of Dieter Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2019 1:09 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [Tex-music] strange reaction of PMX 284 Sorry Don,

Re: [Tex-music] PMX and Trills

2019-05-09 Thread Don Simons
Dieter— If you are referring to the black square after the “tr” in bar 15 of the second example, the reason is related (in some mysterious way I can’t understand) to the very short \noteskip caused by the 16th notes in the bass. For me, with the default page width of 524 pt, the black square

Re: [Tex-music] Bug in PMX with chord stems

2019-05-11 Thread Don Simons
Hi, Danai-- I'm really glad you mentioned the 3rd bar in your text, because when I compiled your source after simply cutting and pasting it from the email without looking at it in detail, it came out with just 2 bars that looked awful. I soon realized that in the email process the first two "/r

[Tex-music] Request, regarding PMX systems with gaps

2019-05-11 Thread Don Simons
For the last 3 weeks I've been struggling with revising PMX to insert blank gaps either in the middle or at the end of a line. I do see ways to cover most possible cases in MusiXTeX, but it's proving really tricky to build them all into PMX. Different handling is needed for gaps in the middle or en

[Tex-music] Another one for the TeXperts

2019-05-14 Thread Don Simons
For me, this file works OK: === \input musixtex \hsize=524pt \vsize740pt \def\nbinstruments{1} \setstaffs11 \setclef10 \generalmeter{\meterfrac{4}{4}}% \nostartrule \startmuflex \parindent 253pt \startpiece\addspace\afterruleskip% \notes\wh c\en% \Endpiece

Re: [Tex-music] Submitting scores to IMSLP

2019-05-15 Thread Don Simons
Yep, tricky to figure out. But the good news is that if you don't do exactly what they want, they will usually tell you what's "wrong". > -Original Message- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music- > bounces+dsimons=roadrunner@tug.org] On Behalf Of Rodolfo Medina > Sent: Wednesday, May 15,

Re: [Tex-music] Another one for the TeXperts

2019-05-15 Thread Don Simons
Bob Tennent wrote ... > > The error message says > > Don't stress \mulooseness too much !!! > > This shouldn't happen ! Too few bars or \mulooseness too large ? > > But there's no problem if you avoid musixflx. > > >|And is there any way to allow \parindent > 253pt? > > You'd have to loo

Re: [Tex-music] Another one for the TeXperts

2019-05-15 Thread Don Simons
Bob Tennent wrote >... > The following works for me: > > = > > \input musixtex > \hsize=524pt > \vsize740pt > \def\nbinstruments{1} > \setstaffs11 > \setclef10 > \generalmeter{\meterfrac{4}{4}}% > \nostartrule > \startmuflex > \parindent 256pt > \startpiece\a

Re: [Tex-music] Another one for the TeXperts

2019-05-15 Thread Don Simons
I wrote >... > This suggests that PMX could produce short, right-justified codas on lines of > their own, using "Mi", if for that line only PMX used \bar rather than \xbar. > But unfortunately, aside from allowing possible unintended line breaks in the > coda, that still wouldn't admit single-bar

Re: [Tex-music] Submitting scores to IMSLP

2019-05-16 Thread Don Simons
> Rodolfo Medina writes: > > > "Don Simons" writes: > > > >> Yep, tricky to figure out. But the good news is that if you don't do > >> exactly what they want, they will usually tell you what's "wrong". > > > > Don

Re: [Tex-music] Submitting scores to IMSLP

2019-05-17 Thread Don Simons
Rodolfo Medina wrote > "Don Simons" writes: > > >> Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> > >> > "Don Simons" writes: > >> > > >> >> Yep, tricky to figure out. But the good news is that if you don't > >

Re: [Tex-music] Another one for the TeXperts

2019-05-18 Thread Don Simons
then error_exit(2) end > > at line 923-925 in musixflx.lua (0.83.3.lua7). > > Note: I tested it with C version musixflx.c 0.83.2 (in T.115 zip archive) line 720 > and line 790-793, because I'm not familiar with lua. > > Hiroaki > > - Original Message - &g

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: problem with shifted dot

2019-05-19 Thread Don Simons
Hi, Rodolfo-- Welcome to the club! Your issue with the dot reveals two problems, one with the details in the manual, and the other one a bug. In the instructions for moving dots, I should have included a suggestion to put the dot last in the note command to avoid any confusion. Your command was "

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: full-bar rest not centered

2019-05-19 Thread Don Simons
Rodolfo-- I think you've exposed a real bug. It seems that whole-bar rests in the first bar are not centered as intended. I'll need to look into this some more and report back later. I'm very surprised it hasn't come up before. As for r0, RTFM. The manual's section on rests starts out "The comman

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: full-bar rest not centered

2019-05-19 Thread Don Simons
o.med...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2019 10:16 AM > To: Don Simons > Cc: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] PMX: full-bar rest not centered > > "Don Simons" writes: > > > Rodolfo-- > > > > I think you'

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: `sforzando' on grace note?

2019-05-19 Thread Don Simons
There's no provision for ornaments on grace notes in PMX. You could put one on the next note and move it as needed: G1m1b1 d03s o>-18-2.4 za3 zc4 zb2 / but this comes out in the main font. If you want one in a smaller font you could get it with the D command, again assigning it to a main note and

Re: [Tex-music] Dots moving

2019-05-20 Thread Don Simons
Rodolfo Medina wrote > Is it possible, in MusiXTeX code, to move a note's dot a little right, left, up or > down such as PMX does? In MusiXTeX manual, on p.26, I see \lpt and \lppt > to lower the dot but nothing else. Anything PMX can do must be able to be coded in MusiXTeX, because all PMX does

Re: [Tex-music] pmx - increasing the number of instruments

2019-05-22 Thread Don Simons
Andre, this couldn't be more elegant! The inline TeX doesn't require any dimensioning. If I ever finish my current PMX improvement project (blank gaps) I may consider trying to build this method into PMX. But I do wonder exactly what you mean when you say that a dummy page cannot be used when maki

[Tex-music] TeXperts: Help!

2019-05-24 Thread Don Simons
I'm getting close to releasing a version of PMX that enables arbitrary blank gaps at the beginning or middle of any staff, relying on TeXniques designed by Olivier Vogel and expanded by Bob Tennet. In modifying PMX it hasn't been at all easy to account for all the possibilities involving movement b

Re: [Tex-music] TeXperts: Help!

2019-05-24 Thread Don Simons
eX-Music [mailto:tex-music- > bounces+dsimons=roadrunner....@tug.org] On Behalf Of Don Simons > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2019 9:09 PM > To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' > Subject: [Tex-music] TeXperts: Help! > > I'm getting close to releasing a version of PMX that enabl

Re: [Tex-music] TeXperts: Help!

2019-05-25 Thread Don Simons
ize=.70\hsize% \contpiece > > Andre > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht- > From: Don Simons > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2019 6:08 AM > To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' > Subject: [Tex-music] TeXperts: Help! > > I'm getting close to releasing a version o

Re: [Tex-music] Duration of multirests below the staff?

2019-05-28 Thread Don Simons
Bob Tennent wrote > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2019 10:19 AM > To: Dieter > Cc: Werner Icking Music Archive > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Duration of multirests below the staff? > > >|How could I put the duration of a multirest below the staff? > > what are you using to generate the multirest? musixte

[Tex-music] New PMX version with gaps

2019-06-01 Thread Don Simons
r after the gap with an "R" command option on the last note in voice 1, but that command MUST be the very last one before the group-ending "/". Once again, please give it a workout and report any bugs or issues. --Don Simons --- TeX-music@tug.org ma

Re: [Tex-music] New PMX version with gaps

2019-06-01 Thread Don Simons
The package is available from WIMA at the following address: http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx290.zip --Don > -Original Message- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music- > bounces+dsimons=roadrunner@tug.org] On Behalf Of Don Simons > Sent: Saturday, June 01,

Re: [Tex-music] PMX cannot influence stem length

2019-06-05 Thread Don Simons
That’s an RTFM, but in this case, it’s the MusiXTeX manual, and it wasn’t that easy to find. You need to enter inline \stdstemfalse\ before the note where you want it to ignore the standard rule for extending all stems to the middle staff line. --Don From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-bou

Re: [Tex-music] PMX290: character "o" in meter change

2019-06-09 Thread Don Simons
Thanks very much, Luigi. I'm not sure why I messed this up, but it's easy to fix, and will be fixed in the next release. --Don > -Original Message- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music- > bounces+dsimons=roadrunner@tug.org] On Behalf Of Luigi Cataldi > Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2019 12:2

Re: [Tex-music] alignment of \flageolett in \Largenotesize

2019-06-29 Thread Don Simons
This is educational...over the years I've noticed some horizontal alignment issues related to whole notes, but never realized there was a built in macro to fix them. So naturally PMX doesn't make the whole note correction. I suppose I could make PMX automatically use \wholeshift when appropriate. B

Re: [Tex-music] alignment of \flageolett in \Largenotesize

2019-06-30 Thread Don Simons
> -Original Message- > From: Bob Tennent [mailto:rdtenn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2019 4:40 AM > To: Don Simons > Cc: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' > Subject: Re: Re: [Tex-music] alignment of \flageolett in \Largenotesize > > >|This

Re: [Tex-music] Varying number of instruments

2019-07-03 Thread Don Simons
39 AM > To: Werner Icking Music Archive > Subject: [Tex-music] Varying number of instruments > > I stumbled across a problem, which was already treated by Dirk Baack and > Don Simons, but the solution is unclear to me. > > I have a configuration with voice and piano. And I want some

Re: [Tex-music] Trills in pmx

2019-08-13 Thread Don Simons
Andre, thanks for discovering this bug. I don't have a solution yet. This will be pretty difficult. The basic reason is that for normal moved dots, I got them to move by redefining \C@Point , which musixtex includes in the dotted note macros \qup etc. But for 2-note tremolos, I use a different me

[Tex-music] Moving dots in 2-note tremolos (was RE: Trills in pmx)

2019-08-14 Thread Don Simons
om: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music- > bounces+dsimons=roadrunner....@tug.org] On Behalf Of Don Simons > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 11:11 AM > To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Trills in pmx > > Andre, thanks for discovering this bug. > >

Re: [Tex-music] Moving dots in 2-note tremolos (was RE: Trills in pmx)

2019-08-17 Thread Don Simons
> \def\hbp{\h@symbol\@qbp} > \def\hbpp{\h@symbol\@qbpp} > \makeatother > ==== > > I should say sorry if my guess is wrong. > > regards, > Hiroaki > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Don Simons" > > To: "'

Re: [Tex-music] lcharnote of a "personal" character and vertical alignment

2019-08-24 Thread Don Simons
Jean-Pierre-- I'm having a hard time understanding what you're saying and doing. But I'm quite sure your MusiXTeX coding is inserting some "unrecorded" horizontal space somewhere, because when I process it I get the dreaded "underfull box" (see below), and that doesn't happen with Bob's solution,

Re: [Tex-music] Please help with two-staves beam

2019-10-25 Thread Don Simons
One solution...the best in my book :) ... is simply to use PMX: == 2 1 11 16 0 0 0 0 1 1 20 0 tt .\ rb4 rb1 [j e14 ]j rb8 rbd8 / [ f15 g- c g+ ] [-3 e ]j rb[ju a- b b+ a g ] / == (To be hone

Re: [Tex-music] Is it possible to put accompaniment chords above each bars in PMX?

2019-12-16 Thread Don Simons
Hi, Aki-- I'm afraid there no direct way to do this in PMX. There are two work-arounds, illustrated in the code below. You could write a TeX macro to slightly simplify the input for the \zcharnote approach. --Don % nv noinst mtrnuml mtrdenl mtrnump mtrdenp xmtrnu

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: problem with changing the number of instruments

2020-01-07 Thread Don Simons
As “huge” as it may be, you should attach the full PMX file or I probably won’t be able to help. --Don Simons From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-bounces+dsimons=roadrunner@tug.org] On Behalf Of Dieter Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2020 4:11 AM To: tex-music@tug.org Subject: [Tex-music

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: problem with changing the number of instruments

2020-01-07 Thread Don Simons
Dieter-- I managed to narrow this down to the full bar rests right before the change from 2 instruments to 1 . Then déjà vu did strike. I searched emails for \atnextbar and found that you had uncovered exactly the same problem in July. It was very tricky to nail down and there’s still no per

Re: [Tex-music] bar crossing beam causes error message

2020-01-16 Thread Don Simons
PMX can’t yet handle bar-crossing beams. Here’s a way you could get that with inline TeX. I’ve used numerical values for the note levels to avoid any possible later confusion about which octave later notes are in. And that’s the same reason I put rests rather than notes in the original PMX, in p

Re: [Tex-music] bar crossing beam causes error message

2020-01-16 Thread Don Simons
working example. In particular I do not understand, why you must use rests in order to print eighth notes. I do not see, how I could extend this example to solve my real life problem. Have you been working on this problem? --Dieter Am 16.01.2020 um 18:14 schrieb Don Simons: 1 1 2 4 2 4

Re: [Tex-music] bar crossing beam causes error message

2020-01-17 Thread Don Simons
[l e15l e16l ] r1 r1 d15sl | / === From: Don Simons [mailto:dsim...@roadrunner.com] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 2:45 PM To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' Subject: RE: [Tex-music] bar crossing beam causes error message

Re: [Tex-music] Can MusiXTeX input guitar chokings?

2020-01-24 Thread Don Simons
\shlft8{\islurd0{'g}\grcu g\off{-\noteskip}}% \ts0{'a}{-.6}\txtdyn{14}{-.5}{\medtype\it cho.}\ql a\en% --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music- > bounces+dsimons=roadrunner@tug.org] On Behalf Of Akihiro > Moriguchi

Re: [Tex-music] Can MusiXTeX input guitar chokings?

2020-01-24 Thread Don Simons
t; > > > t > > > > .\ > > > > w1i > > > > Gsxg5 a4 D"cho."+19 / > > > > = > > > > which produces > > > > The TeX input is > > > > \input pmx > > > >

Re: [Tex-music] 8va position is too low

2020-01-26 Thread Don Simons
Aki-- Congratulations on finding this guidance in CCN's expanded PMX manual. However, I'd caution you (and others) that that manual has not been updated in quite some time. So you should also keep handy the latest version of the basic PMX manual, which I update with every official release. (And I'

[Tex-music] New PMX version

2020-01-27 Thread Don Simons
n dotted 2-note tremolos. I'd appreciate any feedback in case I've introduced any bugs. Bob Tennent will soon be preparing it for submission to TeXLive to make it more easily available to platforms other than Windows. --Don Simons --- TeX-music@tug

Re: [Tex-music] New PMX version

2020-01-28 Thread Don Simons
fully they're now fixed. If you downloaded the older one from yesterday, to be safe please replace it with today's version. Happy PMX'ing! --Don Simons From: Don Simons [mailto:dsim...@roadrunner.com] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020 7:30 AM To: 'Werner Icking Music A

Re: [Tex-music] New PMX version

2020-02-02 Thread Don Simons
x27;d very much appreciate it if some more folks would download the zip, compile pmx294.for, and report back on what system and compiler you used and whether the resulting executable runs OK. Thanks, --Don Simons From: Don Simons [mailto:dsim...@roadrunner.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 28,

Re: [Tex-music] New PMX version

2020-02-05 Thread Don Simons
It's frustrating not having any Linux version in which I can personally investigate the problems people are reporting with compiling and running PMX294. As far as I recall, we've never had problems like this before. So if it's possible to make it run alongside or under my Windows 7 OS, I'm willing

Re: [Tex-music] IMSLP Chopin's mazurka pmx engraving files

2020-04-18 Thread Don Simons
Jean-Pierre wrote > > BTW does anybody know why are MusiXTeX and pmx files downloaded > about 10 % as many times as the pdf? Who finds something useful in them? > How does one find out how many time a particular file on IMSLP has been downloaded?

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: \starteq and \endeq

2020-07-01 Thread Don Simons
Rodolfo et al-- The purpose of those two commands is to adjust the vertical spacing between systems on a page so that the distance between the bottom line of the last staff in each system and the top line of the first staff in the next system are all equal. \starteq must be entered somewhere in th

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: \starteq and \endeq

2020-07-01 Thread Don Simons
Rodolfo et al-- I sent this message 4 hours ago and it seems like it never got posted, so I'm trying again. The purpose of those two commands is to adjust the vertical spacing between systems on a page so that the distance between the bottom line of the last staff in each system and the top line

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: \starteq and \endeq

2020-07-01 Thread Don Simons
ic [mailto:tex-music- > bounces+dsimons=roadrunner....@tug.org] On Behalf Of Don Simons > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2020 1:06 PM > To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] PMX: \starteq and \endeq > > Rodolfo et al-- > > I sent this message 4

[Tex-music] Attention postscript MusiXTeX font users!

2003-10-26 Thread Don Simons
copy the files into wherever you keep .pfb's . You probably don't even need to update the filename database. --Don Simons ___ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

RE: [Tex-music] New member and question1

2003-11-16 Thread Don Simons
Francois-- On my Win98 system, I go to Start|Programs|MiKTeX|MiKTeX Options. After clicking on (i.e., running) "MiKTeX Options", the very first screen ("General" tab) has a button labelled "Refresh Now". --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From

RE: [Tex-music] PMX dynamic strings and hairpins

2003-11-28 Thread Don Simons
There was some reason I included that restriction in the docs, but at the moment I can't recall what it was. I just tried two simultaneous cross-block postscript hairpins and they did work, even across a linebreak. I'll offer a free copy of the upcoming PMX 2.5 to the first person who

[Tex-music] RE: staff jumping beams

2003-11-28 Thread Don Simons
X level solution. In other words I (probably) ask for > a new PMX > feature. I downloaded ritornel4.mtx from the archive but I can't get it to compile. I get the message c:\my documents\pmx>prepmx ritornel4 ==> This is M-Tx pre0.54c (Music from TeXt)

RE: [Tex-music] RE: staff jumping beams--my own problem solved

2003-11-28 Thread Don Simons
I wrote > I downloaded ritornel4.mtx from the archive but I can't get it to > compile. I > get the message > > c:\my documents\pmx>prepmx ritornel4 > ==> This is M-Tx pre0.54c (Music from TeXt) <15 August 2003> > Writing to ritornel4.pmx > No music paragraphs!: ERROR on line 1 > > Any idea what's

RE: [Tex-music] PMX dynamic strings and hairpins + staff jumping beams

2003-11-28 Thread Don Simons
Olivier wrote > Dear Christian, > > Would you like to get that? > > % 24-25 > m4400 b8 o> g c4 \MB{1.5}\ r4 r8 c | > L: fri-ske Kys, Pe- > m4400 (d bu4- Dmf-3+1 zg zd cu8+ )f-7 zg zc- [ g8++ o. e o. c o. > a o. ] cu za ze o. | > m4400 r4db [+2-2 g8 Df-2+1 o.-10 e o.-10 c o.-9 ]j r4b | > m4400 r2b

RE: [Tex-music] Transposition in pmx

2003-12-05 Thread Don Simons
ative accidentals, "n" means "leave it right where it is according to the key signature" and "s" means "raise it 1/2 step from where it would be according to the key signature", etc. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Tex-music] PMX nested slur limitation

2003-12-05 Thread Don Simons
n find is 1.36 dated 4/98, and it allows slur ID numbers, so the "s&t only" days were before that. The oldest M-Tx I find is 0.52 dated 10/98, but it may have started earlier. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [Tex-music] pmx - key change in the second voice

2003-12-05 Thread Don Simons
Andre Van Ryckeghem wrote > To Olivier : i did not test if the midi is not right, but i suppose, if > using in line tex for the keychange, the midi will not see it. I haven't looked at this yet. But maybe you could use midi-only accidentals after the in-line TeX key change. --Don ___

[Tex-music] RE: fine tuning PMX ornaments

2003-12-06 Thread Don Simons
> Christian Mondrup wrote > ...The ritornel 'Søde Narcisse' published today > illustrates that, for example in bar 4 where I have vertically offset the > RH staccato dots to positions above and below the beams. The PMX syntax > allows fractionwise vertical offset, but typesetting result demonstrat

RE: [Tex-music] Transposition in pmx

2003-12-07 Thread Don Simons
ended to be used, you don't have to enter anything twice: % nv,noinst,mtrnuml,mtrdenl,mtrnmp,mtrdnp,xmtrnum0,isig, 11 4 4 4 4 0 -1 % npages,nsyst,musicsize,fracindent 1 1 20 0 t ./ Ar %1 K+1+1

RE: [Tex-music] PMX: dotted rests with vertical shift

2003-12-13 Thread Don Simons
d it. I suppose that's because the most common reasons for shifting dots have to do with chords or slur or tie ends, none of which applies to rests. --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hiroaki > MORIMOTO &

RE: [Tex-music] pmx - \rwp and \lwp

2003-12-13 Thread Don Simons
Olivier Vogel wrote > The problem is due to PMX. If a whole note is shifted to the > left, respectively to the right, PMX introduces the code > \loff{\wh *}, respectively \roff{\wh *}. > > I consider that as a bug of PMX, because the width of whole notes > equals 1.25 width of other notes (half, qu

[Tex-music] RE: pmx - \rwp and \lwp

2003-12-14 Thread Don Simons
n T.111, it lists the horizontal shifts as all being about 6 pt. First, the shifts for whole notes described in this section should be 25% larger than for non-whole notes, and second, the absolute distance depends on musicsize; 6pt only applies to non-whole notes at 20pt musicsize. --Don Sim

RE: [Tex-music] more PMX 2.40 beaming

2004-01-02 Thread Don Simons
#x27;t > understand why [m2lj f1 ] doesn't work. Does it mean that the > multiplicity can not be forced for staff-jumping beams? I've looked at the issue of changing multiplicity of staff-jumping beams in the past, and thrown up my hands i

RE: [Tex-music] pmx - Grace notes with double flags and slash

2004-01-04 Thread Don Simons
I never considered the possibility that anyone would want to have a slash on a single grace with 2 flags. You are probably the first person in history to try this, so there is no "normal". Is this a notation you really want? --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From:

RE: [Tex-music] pmx-restrictions

2004-01-04 Thread Don Simons
t; And I believe that's the truth. If anyone would like to suggest a better way to state all this in the PMX manual compared to what's there now, fire away. BTW, as I just suggested, ANY user with access to a FORTRAN compiler is free to fiddle with the

RE: [Tex-music] Strange PMX behaviour

2004-01-12 Thread Don Simons
ices than it should, but if each voice within the last input block is otherwise OK (meaning syntactically correct and containing the same number of bars as all the others in that input block), then PMX will silently ignore all of that input without any error messages. --Don Simons If you inse

RE: [Tex-music] Strange PMX behaviour

2004-01-13 Thread Don Simons
. The view over the LA basin was jaw-dropping, from the ocean to downtown to the mountains. We could see snow-covered peaks over 100 miles away. --Don Simons ___ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

[Tex-music] Environment variables in RH Linux with g77

2004-01-13 Thread Don Simons
d. Here's a program you could try with g77 to test the concept: character*80 pathq call getenv('PMXMODDIR',pathq) print*,'PMXMODDIR: ',pathq end Before running the test, you can set the environment variable by entering PMXMODDIR=/whatever/whenever/ on the command line. --

[Tex-music] Include files in PMX

2004-01-14 Thread Don Simons
7;t want to create a default path to pmx.mod because (1) that would only have required one positive action (creating pmx.mod) to initiate, making it more likely that a user would lose track of things, and (2) that would be difficult to make compatible across different OS's. --Don Simons ___

[Tex-music] PMX 2.416, including include files

2004-01-17 Thread Don Simons
The new beta version 2.146 at http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2416.zip has a hack at enabling include files. Please do some testing of these capabilities, including purposely introducing errors in syntax, file names, or file locations. The length of the following description is a sm

RE: [Tex-music] PMX - adding "tacet" lines

2004-01-18 Thread Don Simons
7;t surprise me at all if Olivier or Andre comes up with a more elegant solution :-) And I'm really looking forward to Lully! --Don Simons = 3 3 4 4 4 4 0 0 3 6 20 .1 Basso Viola Violin bat .\ %1S5P1 %3S5P1 %2S4P1 h Movement I c03 d e f g a b c

RE: [Tex-music] PMX I/O error in second PMX pass

2004-01-26 Thread Don Simons
er someone inadvertantly went up an octave when he meant to go down, nor questioning where there is any organ in the world that has such high notes on its keyboard. But evidently by bar 25 PMX got exhausted and gave up. I think we should all give PMX a round of applause for

[Tex-music] PMX2.417

2004-01-26 Thread Don Simons
ot; in a slur command will cause the slur to have the normal curvature (between "f" and "h"). --Don Simons ___ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

RE: [Tex-music] trios on 6/8 mesure, how many beams ?

2004-02-05 Thread Don Simons
Andre wrote > I known > that Don (always) is right ... I appreciate the thought, but I disagree with it. But if I'm not always right, maybe I'm wrong about this, and maybe therefore I really am always right. And I know a barber who shaves everyone in town except himself. Here's one argument why

RE: [Tex-music] pmx - path of readmod in windowsxp

2004-02-09 Thread Don Simons
> \readmod{..\..\vlzingt\vlzingtpmx\savobei} > > (! Too many }'s > \.#1->{\accent 95 #1} > . > > Is there a way out for this error (without putting all files in 1 > directory)? > Try using forward slashes in the path name. TeX may be confused by the backslashes. --Don

[Tex-music] PMX Version 2.5

2004-02-15 Thread Don Simons
main reason I didn't bother to create an index. (The other is just laziness). --Don Simons ___ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

RE: [Tex-music] PMX Version 2.5

2004-02-15 Thread Don Simons
Robin-- Thanks for keeping your eyes open :-) --Don Simons > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robin > Fairbairns > Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 3:19 PM > To: Typesetting music with TeX > Subject: Re: [Tex-m

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