On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Don Simons wrote:
There are many ways to skin a cat. In this case I can think of at least 3, depending on whether the symbol can be(1) drawn with diagonal lines, (2) assembled from characters in existing fonts, with or without the addition of diagonal lines, or (3) none of the above. It would take all day to fully explain all three options, so it would be useful if you could give more details (perhaps a pdf file with images). But I can say a few things here. If it's (3), then you're stuck with learning METAFONT to create a new font character and add it to an existing font or create a new one. I can't help you at all with METAFONT and I doubt if very many other people can either, because--at least from my attempts to unravel bits of it--it's even more inscrutable and counterintuitie than TeX. There's an example of at least part of how to do (2) buried in PMX itself, where I needed two parallel diagonal lines and found a font that had a slash character that looked OK, so I built up the symbol using two of those. It's defined as \mtr right near the top of pmx.tex. To get pmx to issue the command, use the PMX command os. If you simply redefined \mtr you could then use the command os in PMX to post your own ornament. To use (1) there are several options. If you use postscript, there's some way to get TeX to draw a diagonal line. There's also a TeX command defined somewhere to draw a diagonal line using lots of tiny dots. I can't remember the names or syntax of either command right now but could find them if I had to. --Don Simons-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hermann Hinsch Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 11:23 AM To: 'Typesetting music with TeX' Subject: [TeX-music] Graces for English Virginal-Music Hallo all, the English virginalists use special signs for the graces. Does anyone know how to use them in PMX by taking inline TeX? How difficult would it be, to create such graces? Hermann _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music_______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Don Simons seems to have forgotten that he has dealt with this
specific problem before (over a year ago; Aug 2005, in fact). Don
and I had made a contribution to the WIMA "Tips & Tricks" section
about it.That also seems to have gotten lost (or perhaps we never
submitted it ?? Do you remember, Don?)
Anyway, in the attached .PDF text, you will find what Don and I sent
(or did NOT send??) to the WIMA T&T page at the time. In it you will
find Don's shortcut macro for the specific grace that I presume you
asked for.
In case you need further assistance don't hesitate to write again.
ccn.
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