Christof Biebricher wrote > There is still a big wish on my list, which I mentioned already > some years ago. Polyphonic organ music very frequently demands that a > key is not re-touched if it is the same like the previous one in another > voice. In the old music, it is usually left to the judgement of the > player whether to re-touch or not, but since 1800 it is noted by ties. > With musixtex, this is not a problem: A tie begun in one voice may > end in another. In pmx, however, this is not possible, but results > in a unfinished tie. I have no idea how difficult it would be to > make it possible that sX say in soprano may end with sX in the alto voice, > but it certainly would save me a lot of post-editing the tex file.
It would be frightfully difficult to make this happen automagically. But within the same staff, there are two ways to do it with no in-line TeX or post-editing, assuming you are using Type-K postscript slurs/ties (I haven't check whether this works with font-based). 1. Say the tie starts in voice 1. If a rest or a note at a different pitch starts in voice 1 at the time you want the tie terminated in voice 2, you can still do it in voice 1. The tie will remain horizontal, and appear to terminate on the voice 2 note at that pitch. 2. Even if there is nothing starting in voice 1 at the time you want to terminate, you can start and end the tie on the same note, with a user-defined horizontal shift for the termination. Of course, for slurs going from one staff to another, it's a whole new ball game that I won't get into now. And I don't think it makes sense to talk about ties from one staff to another, since ties should run horizontally, and in PMX they always do with type K. Conversely, the above tricks will work with Type K slurs within the same staff. The project that has spurred me to deal with rests recently is the 1664 manuscript by Bernardo Storace, which I'm slowly working through. It's "per cimbalo ed organo," and there are many instances where ties run from one voice in a staff to another. I'm not sure if this is exactly what Christof had in mind, but in any event I've used trick #1 many times. --Don Simons _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
