Re: [TeX-Music] Ties at repeats

2007-08-02 Thread Don Simons
Christian Mondrup wrote Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 9:34 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] Ties at repeats Don Simons wrote: I got that same error from PMX before I activated postscript slurs/ties with Ap. Are you using postscript slurs/ties

Re: [TeX-Music] Rest in a triplet

2007-08-02 Thread Don Simons
Here's how to substitute rests for notes. The \zcharnote commands gobble up the pitches of the notes and so keep the octave register right. Don't forget the a in the xtuplet main note, to cause separate stems in the quarter note triplet. c03 / c44 e4x3 eD c4 e4ax3 c c /

Re: [TeX-Music] Ties at repeats

2007-08-03 Thread Don Simons
Christof Biebricher wrote On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Christian Mondrup wrote: Well, pmxab doesn't accept that with ties: ERROR in line 295, bar 16 +|- for slur height only allowed in s-slurs v But it works excellently with slurs d45 c8

Re: [TeX-Music] Installing MiKTeX and MusiXTeX on Windows XP.

2007-08-04 Thread Don Simons
I'm going to get a new computer soon, and will try these instructions then. Until then, it's hard to make any sensible comments. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jean-Pierre Coulon Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 12:37 AM

Re: [TeX-Music] Problems with \atnextline

2007-09-14 Thread Don Simons
Leandro-- Your questions to the list so far have been about MusiXTeX only. Have you tried the preprocessor PMX? It takes care of dotted rests. Can't say whether it would have helped with your vertical spacing problem. But overall it will greatly simplify typesetting just about any music. --Don

Re: [TeX-Music] Midi files

2007-10-10 Thread Don Simons
in PMX adhere to the Baroque convention in this instance. If you want the midi file to silently cancel the accidental, then put a midi-only accidental on the note after the bar line, e.g., af a a a | ani a a a / --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [TeX-Music] Free bar

2007-10-11 Thread Don Simons
Every bar must have a meter, but you can change the meter at any time, and if you don't want a time signature you can use a blind meter change, e.g., a44 b c d / m17/16/0/0 d1 e4 f g a / You may need to manually control the beaming (or non-beaming) in such situations. --Don Simons

Re: [TeX-Music] [PMX] Ties of chords repeated in midi files

2007-10-13 Thread Don Simons
of the PMX file for midi. Anyone else have other ideas about tricking PMX to make midi chords? --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jill-Jênn VIE Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 7:32 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: [TeX

Re: [TeX-Music] Shift grace notes

2007-10-13 Thread Don Simons
I'm not volunteering to build this into PMX. It can get very complicated, and there's just not much call for this capability...you're the first one who's ever asked about it. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jill-Jênn VIE Sent

Re: [TeX-Music] Shift grace notes; another thought

2007-10-13 Thread Don Simons
to zero. By getting your spacing that way, you don't have to use \roffset at all. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Don Simons Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 4:52 PM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music

[TeX-Music] New PMX Beta, Version 2.515

2007-12-22 Thread Don Simons
properly centered over the rest. As usual, I'd appreciate folks trying to break these fixes and report back. Happy holidays to everyone! --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

Re: [TeX-Music] correcting J.S. Bach bug

2007-12-28 Thread Don Simons
of notationally conveying the exact way of realizing any ornament in a way that fits all possible situations. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tex-music- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Tennent Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 9:12 AM To: tex-music@icking

Re: [TeX-Music] changes in number of voices

2008-01-28 Thread Don Simons
has quicker answers, and if not, I'll have something in a few days. Meanwhile, I'd suggest trial-and-error, starting with an idea of exactly what you want the PMX file to look like. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tex-music- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [TeX-Music] lcgpmxfr.pdf

2008-02-21 Thread Don Simons
I don't know French but I do know PMX. The answer is yes. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tex-music- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jill-Jênn VIE Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:35 PM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: [TeX-Music

Re: [TeX-Music] M-TX 0.60c compile problem

2008-03-09 Thread Don Simons
OK. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tex-music- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Mondrup Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 9:00 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] M-TX 0.60c compile problem Roland Stigge wrote: Hi, trying

Re: [TeX-Music] M-TX 0.60c compile problem

2008-03-16 Thread Don Simons
in this example, meter.mtx should be modified as follows: ... %% Ap a-2d o a8 r r a r r a2d o | C: dfsa cea cea dfsa d-2d o-15 a4 a { [h d8 {2u d+ ] d2d }2 zd- } | --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tex

[TeX-Music] Bitmapped vs postscript slurs (was RE: M-TX 0.60c compile problem)

2008-03-17 Thread Don Simons
they are clearly too unsymmetrical. http://www.geocities.com/pchpublish/slurbm.pdf http://www.geocities.com/pchpublish/slurps.pdf And BTW (although not exactly on point) note that slurbm.pdf is 38% bigger than slurps.pdf. Both were made with gsview32. --Don Simons -Original Message- From

Re: [TeX-Music] Bitmapped vs postscript slurs (was RE: M-TX 0.60c compile problem)

2008-03-17 Thread Don Simons
Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] Bitmapped vs postscript slurs (was RE: M-TX 0.60c compile problem) On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Don Simons wrote: Could someone post short comparative examples that illustrate the better screen rendering and smaller pdf's from pdftex and dvipdfm vs gsview32

Re: [TeX-Music] M-Tx and PMX-Limitation

2008-03-19 Thread Don Simons
you that that alone won't do the trick; you'll just have to follow the error messages. Also, I'm not so sure that MusiXTeX will allow more than 12 instruments, although it may allow more than 12 total voices if there are no more than 12 instruments. --Don Simons -Original Message- From

[TeX-Music] PMX with 12 voices

2008-04-12 Thread Don Simons
-archive.org/software/pmx/bigpmx.zip and try to break it. Depending on the responses, I'll decide whether to make this official or not. --Don Simons Test file for 13 voices = --- \input musixtex \input musixuad --- 13 13 6 8 6 8 0 0 0 3 20 .1 I II III IV V VI VII VIII

Re: [TeX-Music] M-Tx-PMX-Problem

2008-04-13 Thread Don Simons
Since I got sucked into this, I decided to see if bigpmx (as described in my last posting) could deal with Hermann's file. I've discovered yet another issue, one that has nothing to do with the number of voices but rather simply with the length of the file. There's one point where PMX copies the

Re: [TeX-Music] pmx -- no bar at end of line of last line

2008-04-20 Thread Don Simons
Olivier, could you explain why this works in both places? I think I see why it does at the page break, but I don't understand why it does at the end. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tex-music- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olivier Vogel Sent: Sunday

Re: [TeX-Music] last note of an xtuplet a rest illegal in PMX ?

2008-04-28 Thread Don Simons
Cornelius C. Noack wrote PMX does not allow the last note of an xtuplet to be a rest. This has been discussed here before, and Don Simons explained that the PMX logic for the beam in an xtuplet is sufficiently complex to make a rest as the last note extremely difficult if not outright impossible

[TeX-Music] MusiXTeX Version T.114

2008-06-14 Thread Don Simons
are planning to release completely new versions of MusiXTeX and PMX which will enable more voices, hopefully in the not-too-distant future. --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex

Re: [TeX-Music] Tremolo

2008-06-20 Thread Don Simons
the macros from pmx.tex and use them in a manually built tex file, you must also extract the definition of \usoff and you must declare \newcount\reflect --Don Simons ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo

Re: [TeX-Music] MusiXTeX Version T.114

2008-06-21 Thread Don Simons
Hiroaki has corrected this omission (thanks, Hiroaki!). I just uploaded the corrected version to http://www.icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixtex-t114.zip (same file name as before, but dates have been changed to 16 June 2008). --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [TeX-Music] M-TX, figured bass

2008-07-03 Thread Don Simons
Thanks to Diane for taking a crack at this one. Everything she said is right. Since the need for an alternate line of figures arises so rarely, using the existing facilities with inline TeX is what I would recommend. Please let me add a few more remarks. The vertical position represented by the

Re: [TeX-Music] M-TX, figured bass

2008-07-03 Thread Don Simons
that in PMX. 5. The continuation figure (horizontal line of arbitrary length) has a separate macro \Cont{vertical offset}{length}. Vertical offset works the same as for \Figu. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tex-music- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diane

Re: [TeX-Music] M-TX, figured bass

2008-07-04 Thread Don Simons
be entered BEFORE the relevant note in the PMX file. And of course, I strongly discourage ever post-editing the TeX file. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tex-music- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diane Blaurock Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:16 PM

Re: [TeX-Music] [PMX] Tempo indication: ♩ = 138

2008-07-14 Thread Don Simons
how to make the quarter note smaller in the \metron command. --Don Simons From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jill-Jênn VIE Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 4:35 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: [TeX-Music] [PMX] Tempo indication: ♩ = 138 Hi

Re: [TeX-Music] [PMX] Tempo indication: ♩ = 138 + Dmfp

2008-07-14 Thread Don Simons
, thanks a lot for such a quick answer! On 14 juil. 08, at 15:35:35, Don Simons wrote: Since you’re clever enough to put a quarter note in an email message, maybe you can also figure out how to make the quarter note smaller in the \metron command. With \smallnotesize :) \tinynotesize

Re: [TeX-Music] [PMX] Tempo indication: ♩ = 138 + Dmfp

2008-07-14 Thread Don Simons
Jill-Jênn wrote By the way, how do you know the \ppff command? It's not written in musixdoc.pdf It’s right there on p. 57 of http://www.icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/mxdoc110d.pdf --Don ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [TeX-Music] Tremolo

2008-07-17 Thread Don Simons
the available slots in certain variables, and adding just one more ornament type would take some major reprogramming. --Don Simons == 1 1 4 4 4 4 0 0 1 1 20 0 t .\ % % Redefine \lst, \ust to give a lower

[TeX-Music] Correction RE: Too long name of instrument

2008-11-30 Thread Don Simons
Unfortunately I didn't RTFM before I answered this. I should have said the twelfth parameter. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:27 PM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject

Re: [TeX-Music] Too long name of instrument (fwd)

2008-12-02 Thread Don Simons
the space. --Don -Original Message- From: Cornelius C. Noack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:43 AM To: Don Simons Subject: [TeX-Music] Too long name of instrument (fwd) When checking this, I found that when fracindent is greater than about 0.5 (I didn't check

[TeX-Music] New PMX Beta 2.517

2008-12-04 Thread Don Simons
to be sure I haven't messed anything up. I have not received any feedback yet from the last release. --Don Simons ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music

Re: [TeX-Music] New PMX Beta 2.517

2008-12-06 Thread Don Simons
Robin, there still seems to be a bug of some sort in the new version that wasn't there in 2.515 (See Andre's recent posting). I'll try to find it today. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin Fairbairns Sent: Saturday

[TeX-Music] New PMX Beta 2.518

2008-12-06 Thread Don Simons
am surprised about is that it never crashed for me (like it did for Andre). I've done three whole 2-line Pasquini sonatas already--about 12 pages--but I guess the troubles only started when there are at least 3 voices. Here's a link: http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2518.zip --Don

[TeX-Music] New PMX Beta 2.519

2008-12-07 Thread Don Simons
crossing my fingers that this one will be reasonably stable. Here's the new link: http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2519.zip --Don Simons ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex

[TeX-Music] Luigi's warnings (was RE: New PMX Beta 2.517)

2008-12-07 Thread Don Simons
be gone in the next version post-2.519. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luigi Cataldi Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 7:34 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] New PMX Beta 2.517 Christian Mondrup wrote

[TeX-Music] Mac OSX version of PMX 2.519

2008-12-20 Thread Don Simons
Thanks to Christian Mondrup, a Mac version of the latest PMX beta is available at http://www.icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2519-OSX.zip --Don Simons ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman

Re: [TeX-Music] pmx - staff jumping beam with no jump

2008-12-25 Thread Don Simons
use the options u or d on the [ for the 2nd segment. In Andre's case it did work out OK without the options. Cornelius, you might want to make this a new tip or trick. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music

Re: [TeX-Music] Image in the title: slightly off topic

2009-01-03 Thread Don Simons
Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] Image in the title: slightly off topic Le 3 janv. 09 à 02:53, Don Simons a écrit : Let’s be clear: PMX doesn’t specify any default music size; it’s a required input. As for the computed value of \interstaff, yes the default does look a little big in this case

Re: [TeX-Music] Source editing, XP, EDIT, notepad

2009-01-03 Thread Don Simons
I use WinVi32. I don't know about colors, but it shows line and column numbers. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Jean-Pierre Coulon Sent

[TeX-Music] A new score of note

2009-01-03 Thread Don Simons
comfortably under the fingers. So if you play harpsichord (or even piano) I urge you to try it out, and if you know any harpsichordists maybe you could pass this on. Here's the link: http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/muffat/muffhs.pdf --Don Simons

Re: [TeX-Music] beamed open notes

2009-01-16 Thread Don Simons
use to typeset the open notes? --Don Simons % \\makeatletter\ \\def\opennotes{\ \\let\qsym...@symbol\let\dsoupt\ds@oup\let\qst\qs\ \\le...@symbol\h@symbol\ \\let\qs...@oup\ \\let...@oup\qp\ % % Macro to get the line

Re: [TeX-Music] [english 92%] beamed open notes

2009-01-16 Thread Don Simons
-notehead example, they've now duplicated Storace's beaming, while in the older edition, they ignored it (!!??). Does anyone know if they used the open-head notation in the revised edition? --Don Simons ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http

Re: [TeX-Music] [english 92%] beamed open notes

2009-01-17 Thread Don Simons
into PMX with half the value you want to see printed. For example, if you want a half note, you must enter a quarter. I did it this way so that all of PMX's automatic beaming machinery would work on the now-beamable quarter notes. --Don Simons ___ tex

Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader

2009-01-17 Thread Don Simons
David Allsopp wrote There are two options: a) Use GhostView (but it's not free) ... ?? It looks free to me, but I didn't try to install since I already have it from years ago. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ --Don Simons ___ tex-mu...@icking

Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader

2009-01-17 Thread Don Simons
require installation of MetaPost and generate multiple auxiliary files. --Don Simons ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music

[TeX-Music] Bug fix posted for musixtex

2009-02-14 Thread Don Simons
I've just posted a bugfix for MusiXTeX to the software archive at http://www.icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixtex-patch-t114-re v4.zip . Thanks to David Allsopp for pointing out the bug (in definitions of \ttie and \tleg), and to Hiroaki Morimoto for implementing the fix. --Don

Re: [TeX-Music] pmx - Beam hight is not always the same

2009-02-21 Thread Don Simons
the starting height of a beam by a non-integer number of \internotes? --Don Simons 1 1 2 4 2 4 0 0 0 4 20 0 t ./ % Bar 1 g84.g g1 gd8 | % Bar 2 [+0+0+1 g8.g ] g1 gd8 / % Bar 3 [-1+0+1 g8.g ] [-1 g1 gd8 ] / % Bar 4 [-3+0+2 g8.g ] [-3+0+1 g1 gd8 ] / % Bar 5

Re: [TeX-Music] pmx - Beam hight is not always the same

2009-02-21 Thread Don Simons
the notes, adding height to the top of the beam. That is NOT how MusixTeX beams work; every added beam lengthens the stems. Maybe I can put Read's rule in PMX as an optional default. Any votes? --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk

Re: [TeX-Music] pmx - Beam hight is not always the same

2009-02-22 Thread Don Simons
-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Christian Mondrup Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 1:11 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] pmx - Beam hight is not always the same Don Simons wrote: Andre, that works! I'll try to build it into pmx. I think I can just

Re: [TeX-Music] Length of title

2009-03-14 Thread Don Simons
Try this == 1 1 2 4 2 4 0 0 0 4 20 0 t ./ \\\def\title{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz$\Lambda$}\ \\\def\comp{Chikayo Fukuda, Seizo Nakata, Norikatsu Fukuda\\Transcribed by Jill-J \^enn Vie as composer.}\ Tt \title Tc \comp c24 / --Don

Re: [TeX-Music] Length of title

2009-03-14 Thread Don Simons
-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Jill-Jênn VIE Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:25 PM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] Length of title That works! What about the size of the \Lambda? :/ Le 15 mars 09 à 00:16, Don Simons a écrit : You'll probably have

[TeX-Music] Upper case Greek lambda: much easier than I thought

2009-03-14 Thread Don Simons
-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Don Simons Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:57 PM To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] Length of title I couldn't find one that wasn't italic, but this gives an italic upper case lambda at whatever size you want

Re: [TeX-Music] Transposition with abcpp and pmx

2009-04-04 Thread Don Simons
parts in their transposed keys? --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Christian Mondrup Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 10:43 AM To: Werner

Re: [TeX-Music] figured-bass font

2009-05-05 Thread Don Simons
METAFONT. So good luck, Bob. If you're successful, naturally I'll try to work it into PMX. The only good news: I play lots of continuo from figured bass, and I don't have any problem at all with #4 or #6. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun

[TeX-Music] Fonts for special figured bass characters

2009-05-09 Thread Don Simons
. I'm planning to modify PMX to take advantage of these characters. --Don Simons ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music

Re: [TeX-Music] Fonts for special figured bass characters

2009-05-10 Thread Don Simons
as well. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: Don Simons [mailto:dsim...@roadrunner.com] Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 5:41 PM To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' Subject: Fonts for special figured bass characters I have just uploaded to the archive a font package figbas containing Computer

[TeX-Music] New PMX beta with special figured bass characters.

2009-05-10 Thread Don Simons
and to create postscript output. --Don Simons ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music

[TeX-Music] Strange interaction between mtx.tex, figbas, and PMX 2.520

2009-05-16 Thread Don Simons
. I've looked in mtx.tex but couldn't identify the culprit. ? --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Don Simons Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 4

[TeX-Music] PMX problem solved; new beta 2.521 uploaded

2009-05-16 Thread Don Simons
-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2521.zip In preparing this version, I used a new scheme I just worked out for creating the single FORTRAN source file without those annoying Ctrl-Z's that the DOS copy command had been inserting. --Don Simons ___ tex

[TeX-Music] Mac OSX version of PMX 2.521

2009-05-17 Thread Don Simons
The latest beta version of PMX is available in a Mac OSX version at http://www.icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2521-OSX.zip Thanks to Christian Mondrup! --Don Simons -Original Message- From: Don Simons [mailto:dsim...@roadrunner.com] Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 6:33 PM

Re: [TeX-Music] Barnumbers

2009-05-23 Thread Don Simons
confused by other redefinitions that a user might try. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Christian Mondrup Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 10:38

Re: [TeX-Music] Barnumbers

2009-05-24 Thread Don Simons
Christian wrote Don Simons wrote: ... However, if you only want to alter the position of the bar number on a one-time basis, there is an undocumented macro in pmx.tex called \bnrs (bar number raise shift). It has two arguments, the amount to raise it (in \internote) and the amount to shift

Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

2009-05-30 Thread Don Simons
to get larger or smaller semicircles or circles, and adjusting positions as necessary. This is a trial-and-error process, which is exactly what I did in coming up with these in the first place, especially to get the two quarter-circle characters to line up. --Don Simons -Original Message

Re: [TeX-Music] Mac OSX version of PMX 2.521, warning

2009-05-30 Thread Don Simons
annoyance when going back and forth among different OS's. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Jill-Jênn VIE Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 1:16

Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

2009-05-31 Thread Don Simons
but that might not be bad for the intended use. This font also has full circles in various sizes. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Hermann Hinsch Sent

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 ___ tex-mu...@icking

Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

2009-06-01 Thread Don Simons
(for vertical position), or after \kern (for horizontal positioning). I can't give you a recipe for this, it has to be trial and error. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun

Re: [TeX-Music] PMX problems

2009-06-21 Thread Don Simons
I'm equally mystified by line-ending character issues, but 1. I confirmed that score.pmx compiles OK under WinXP/MiKTeX with the latest PMX, with no errors or warnings, and 2. I did fix the link to the Linux tarball...thanks, Bob, for pointing out that problem. --Don Simons -Original Message

Re: [TeX-Music] PMX problems

2009-06-21 Thread Don Simons
The distribution DOS/Win binary was produced with Visual FORTRAN in Microsoft Developer Studio 97. I just now compiled PMX with gfortran in DOS. There were no errors in that compilation, but then lo and behold processing either score.pmx or p_vl.pmx does lead to the same End of file error you

Re: [TeX-Music] PMX problems

2009-06-21 Thread Don Simons
Peter, could you send me a very short file as an attachment that demonstrates this feature. I believe this is just a warning and doesn't stop PMX, but I need a sample file to be sure. If I'm right, do I really need to do anything? --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music

Re: [TeX-Music] PMX problems

2009-06-22 Thread Don Simons
it to 1098907648, and I assume some of the Linux compilers Bob mentioned did something similar. Case closed. I'll have a new distribution as soon as I settle on what to do about the last non-blank character warning. --Don Simons ___ tex-mu...@icking

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical tweaks of slur type k in Latex doument

2009-06-28 Thread Don Simons
must not use /initmatrix Warning: EPS file must not use /initmatrix Warning: EPS file must not use /initmatrix Warning: EPS file must not use /serverdict Warning: EPS file must not use /serverdict So bottom line, I don't have a clue how to fix this problem. --Don Simons -Original

Re: [TeX-Music] Hi all

2009-07-10 Thread Don Simons
Marcello- It would be best if you could make a much shorter latex file that still contains the error and can be compiled as is. A second choice would be to post the whole file somewhere so people can get it, but not as an attachment to a message to the list. --Don Simons From: icking

Re: [TeX-Music] Hi all

2009-07-11 Thread Don Simons
Please study the example in Section 1.2 of http://www.icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/mxdoc110d.pdf You need to use \sk. --Don Simons From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk

Re: [TeX-Music] A new application for PMX

2009-09-28 Thread Don Simons
I love it. Thank heavens for the shorthand dot notation! --Don -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Dirk Laurie Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 5:36 AM

Re: [TeX-Music] Converting Finale input files?

2009-10-10 Thread Don Simons
-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Christian Mondrup Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 2:33 PM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] Converting Finale input files? Don Simons wrote: I'd like to make my own version of Soler's Fandango that has way fewer than 35 page turns

Re: [TeX-Music] staff-jumping beams

2009-12-07 Thread Don Simons
Hiroaki-- I've dealt with this feature many times. You have to make PMX think the 2nd segments were upper beams before being joined, so when it automagically flips the up-downness they become lower beams and the correct termination command is used. (I usually need to experiment a little to get

Re: [TeX-Music] staff-jumping beams

2009-12-07 Thread Don Simons
I wonder why [jf ... ] doesn't work. I'll have to look into that. -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Hiroaki MORIMOTO Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009

[TeX-Music] Updated complete MusiXTeX distribution

2009-12-26 Thread Don Simons
that a smashing success, while Hiroaki provided most of the bugfixes and carefully tracked of all of them. --Don Simons ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://mailman.nfit.au.dk

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical space above first system

2010-02-11 Thread Don Simons
with Tt \raise20pt\hbox{Title} --Don Simons From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Adam Fenn Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:55 AM To: icking-music-archive.org-tex

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical space above first system

2010-02-12 Thread Don Simons
Christian and Adam- I'm curious why you wanted to add more vertical space below the title. If you could post the PMX source for your first page that would be helpful, or Christian, if it's already in the archive, just tell me which piece it is. --Don From:

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical space above first system

2010-02-12 Thread Don Simons
Of Christian Mondrup Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 6:59 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical space above first system Don Simons wrote: Christian and Adam- I'm curious why you wanted to add more vertical space below the title. If you could post the PMX source

Re: [TeX-Music] Graphical email addresses

2010-02-21 Thread Don Simons
I compiled your Texy way and used gsview to make a pdf (just like I do with the manual). Here's what I get when I copy and paste the text from the pdf: cou...@obs- nice.fr Would the blank space stop the bad guys? --Don -Original Message- From:

[TeX-Music] Test only, please do not reply

2010-02-26 Thread Don Simons
This is a test to see if the Tex Music mailing list is still working ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to

[TeX-Music] Question for MusiXTeXperts

2010-02-27 Thread Don Simons
compiles OK. Any idea what's going on, or why no one has flagged this problem before? --Don Simons == \input musixtex \normalmusicsize% \hsize=524pt \vsize740pt \def\nbinstruments{4} \setclef1\bass \setclef2\treble \setclef3\treble \setclef4\treble

Re: [TeX-Music] WIMA has been restored on a new server

2010-03-08 Thread Don Simons
Bravo, Christian!!! Lots of people thank you for your efforts, including me. --Don -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Arjen Bax Sent: Monday, March 08,

Re: [TeX-Music] Searchability of pdf's

2010-03-10 Thread Don Simons
unsearchability. Case closed. I have regenerated musixdoc.pdf with GS version 8.60, replaced it in musixtex114.zip, and uploaded both files to the NEW home of the archive. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music

Re: [TeX-Music] Error with ties

2010-04-24 Thread Don Simons
? / === --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Jill-Jênn VIE Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 5:42 PM To: Werner Icking Music Archive

Re: [TeX-Music] Error with ties

2010-04-24 Thread Don Simons
but won't be: Using PMX, font-based ties are really slurs with altered default starting and ending positions, while postscript ties have subtly but fundamentally different shapes than slurs. --Don Simons ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list

Re: [TeX-Music] (sem assunto)

2010-05-17 Thread Don Simons
of Windows, and on which version of TeX you have installed), and using it is not easy either, especially if you don't use the preprocessor PMX. --Don Simons From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk

Re: [TeX-Music] Figured bass above stave

2010-05-22 Thread Don Simons
have anything sticking above the staff, or if you don't care about crashes, it looks like -10 is about the right \figdrop, and you could set it at that once and then forget it. The alternative is to fine tune it by redefining \fixdrop as needed. --Don Simons -Original Message- From

Re: [TeX-Music] Figured bass above stave

2010-05-22 Thread Don Simons
-- will this tweak break that? Don Simons dsim...@roadrunner.com writes: One thing I forgot to mention: If you want even finer control on the height of any individual figure, you can get that using this feature introduced in 2.502: The height of a figured bass vertical stack can now be adjusted upward

Re: [TeX-Music] M-Tx, number of staves

2010-06-04 Thread Don Simons
, with no in-line TeX, and certainly without creating separate files for different parts of the score. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Dirk Laurie Sent

Re: [TeX-Music] scope of cautionary accidentals

2010-06-06 Thread Don Simons
Oops, never mind! I sure did miss the point. I'll have a look into why the later ones came out as cautionary, but the real TeXperts will probably have an answer before I do. --Don -Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk

Re: [TeX-Music] scope of cautionary accidentals

2010-06-06 Thread Don Simons
To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] scope of cautionary accidentals Don Simons wrote: Oops, never mind! I sure did miss the point. I'll have a look into why the later ones came out as cautionary, but the real TeXperts will probably have an answer before I do. Heh, heh - having

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