> 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 demonstrates > that fraction values are rounded to integers before being applied. That > prevents me from achieving equal distances between dots and beam.
Your right that fractions are dropped. You can do a little better with the vertical positioning, using this very special work-around: ========================== 1 1 2 4 2 4 0 -1 1 1 20 0 t .\ w2.5i % Paragraph 8 line 63 bar 4 f84 ou+2 g8 ou+3 a8 ou+4 f8a | // a84 o.-9 b8 o.-9 c8 o.-9 ef8a o. zc | / ========================== The problem with the method you used---which was the obvious method---is that MusiXTeX moves some of the dots because it thinks there are ledger lines to be avoided. The reason is quite convoluted, and the work-around took a lot of trial and error. But it's still less work and safer than adding code to recognize and correct for the situation. > Furthermore pmxab accepts additional staccato dot horizontal offset > arguments (eg. 'o.+2+.5'). But since I may enter arbitrary horizontal > offset values without seing any visual effect I suppose they're simply > ignored. That prevents me from aligning staccato dots with stems > as I would > like to do:-( As of now PMX can't shift ornaments horizontally except oc and ob. The fact pmxa accepted a second signed number is an oversight. I'll think about adding the option. --Don _______________________________________________ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
