I'm writing a piece in 4/4, so complicated that I asked for my first M-Tx > PMX > tex compile before completing the first bar. PMX complained. Reason: if the last bar of a piece is incomplete, M-Tx issues a blind meter change to make it look complete. But now the last bar is also the first bar. Boiling down the problem to a near-minimal input file, I came up with the following PMX input file:
=========================== % =================================== --- --- 1 -1 1 4 4 0 6 0.00000 0 1 1 20 0 0 ./ m3/8/0/0 da84d da1- da8 / =========================== % =================================== which produces =========================== % =================================== This is PMX, Version 2.504, 02 Nov 04 Opening bug.pmx Starting first PMX pass ERROR in line 8, bar 2 Pickup bar length disagrees with mtrnum0 v da84d da1- da8 / ^ =========================== % =================================== I make the deduction that a meter change at the start of the first bar is not allowed. It has been noted before on this list that a clef change at the start of the first bar is ignored. Both of these represent undocumented behaviour. A logical argument can be made out that a meter change at this point is preposterous, but there are situations in which a clef change is logical. As the author of a brief PMX tutorial, soon to be revised, I am in a quandary whether to document this behaviour. Dirk _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music