Christof Biebricher wrote > I work on improving older typesets. Because the > Kneifl-type (pmx: Ap) ties look much better and cause less interference > with notes or beams, I chose them. However, they have a setback; > If the notes to be tied are close, the tie gets reduced > to an almost invisible little hook. If a line break separates > the tie, the end of the tie is also nearly invisible. Of course, > there is a remedy: simply convert those ties to slurs which come > out too short. This turned out in some cases to be > a lot of repair and I wonder whether it is possible to > introduce a lower bound into the tie length-calculating algorithm. >
In PMX there is a partial remedy, introduced in version 2.401: "Suboption for Type K postscript ties, activated by Apl, to (a) change first part of a linebreak ties to have same shape as normal ties, and (b) move start of second part of linebreak ties a little to the left" (Quoted from the list of changes in the beta version, http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/software/pmx/pmxbeta.html ). This is a global option that only needs to be invoked once in the entire PMX source. For non-linebreak slurs and ties, PMX has long offered case-by-case adjustments of the end positions, but the vertical adjustments are currently limited to integral numbers of \internote. It looks like I could program PMX to use \pstieraise to get around that restriction. Also, I personally would prefer that very short slurs and ties were thicker. Is there any way for a user (or PMX) to control the thickness? --Don Simons _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
