Andre Van Ryckeghem wrote >[ Don wrote] > > I'm thinking seriously about handling this matter and others > related to it > > within PMX, without requiring any new TeX coding. > > 'without requiring any new TeX coding': you mean musixps.tex > (Stanislav Kneifl) included?
I'm just about finished with this, but there may be a few bugs I need to deal with. May be done by tomorrow. The new features will require musixps.tex, and that you include "Apl" in the preamble. (before, "Apl" only affected ties.) All the rest will be through options in the PMX slur syntax for the start and end of the slur/tie. The new coding will unify the handling of linebreak slurs and ties (remember, they're really different with "Ap"!). With "Apl" every slur/tie at a line break is broken into two separate ones. (Maybe if there aren't any tweaks they should be left alone?) Tweaks to the start of the first segment and the end of the second are handled as before. For the end of the first segment and start of the second, PMX has to decide where they go. The default heights are now the same as the start of the first segment. This represents a slight difference from the musixps default, where the first segment of a linebreak slur always comes out tilted. There are also some slight differences in the horizontal default positions, including the starting point of the second tie segment, which musixps.tex puts too far to the right for my taste. The new news is that if you don't like the defaults, you can use special position tweaks, designated in the command that starts the slur/tie, in the usual way but preceded by one "s" (sever or split) for the end of seg. 1 and another "s" for the start of seg. 2. The usual curvature options "h","H","HH","f" can also be used. As of now, any of these anywhere in the slur/tie-opening command will apply to seg. 1, and in the closing command, to seg 2. I could also possibly interpret one coming after a 2nd "s" in the opening command to apply to seg. 2, any preferences? Of course, if the slur/tie does not come at a linebreak, the special position tweaks (after the "s" option) will all be ignored, and the curvature tweaks on the closing note take precedence (as before). There's no provision for a user changing the new defaults either permanently or for an entire score. Maybe later, if there's any demand. --Don _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
