Andre, if I understand your suggestion, that is exactly what PMX does now when you use the first beam height parameter [-1 ... When I work out the optional default behavior, then once you activate it, that will be part of what PMX does automagically.
--Don >-----Original Message----- >From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk >[mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] >On Behalf Of Andre Van Ryckeghem >Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 12:37 AM >To: Werner Icking Music Archive >Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] pmx - Beam hight is not always the same > >Maybe I can put Read's rule in PMX as >> an optional default. Any votes? >> >I think, this would save a lot of adaption in the sheet. > >Something else: > >Is this possible: shorten the double beam stem: > >ie. \ibbl1g0 --> \ibbl1h0 and \ibbu1g0 --> \ibbu1f0 > >Then they would be of equal hight > >Andre > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Don Simons" <dsim...@roadrunner.com> >To: "'Werner Icking Music Archive'" ><icking-music-archive.org-tex-music@mailman.nfit.au.dk> >Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 8:30 AM >Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] pmx - Beam hight is not always the same > > >> Andre, that works! I'll try to build it into pmx. I think I can just >have >> PMX apply \loff to the \tbb*. I tested that on a TeX file and it >worked. >> To >> be honest my feeble brain is having trouble wading through the logic >of >> the >> re-definitions, but I think I can have PMX fix it without using any >> re-definitions. >> >> One other comment: I was looking in Gardiner Read for info about this. >It >> not real clear, but I think he's saying that for double beams, the >tops >> should be the same height above their notes and stems don't lengthen, >but >> then when you add a third beam, you add it on the far side from the >notes, >> adding height to the top of the beam. That is NOT how MusixTeX beams >work; >> every added beam lengthens the stems. Maybe I can put Read's rule in >PMX >> as >> an optional default. Any votes? >> >> --Don Simons >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk >>>[mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] >>>On Behalf Of Andre Van Ryckeghem >>>Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:52 PM >>>To: Werner Icking Music Archive >>>Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] pmx - Beam hight is not always the same >>> >>>Thanks, Don for the explanation, i must confess, i was not aware of >the >>>third argument after [. >>> >>>I do not know how to change the behaviour of musixtex to adapt the >short >>>beams, but if you shift them a little bit (or much more) to the left >>>they >>>seems to vanish. >>> >>>The example is only for upper beams >>> >>>Andre >>> >>>============ >>>1 1 2 4 2 4 0 0 >>>0 4 20 0 >>> >>>t >>>./ >>>\\let\tbbbusav\tbbbu\let\tbbusav\tbbu\ >>>\\def\tbbulof{\def\tbbu##1{\let\tbbu\tbbusav\loff{\tbbu##1}}}\ >>>\\def\tbbbulof{\def\tbbbu##1{\let\tbbbu\tbbbusav\loff{\tbbbu##1}}}\ >>>% Bar 1 >>>g85.g g1 gd8 | >>>% Bar 2 >>>[+0+0+1 g8-.g ] g1 gd8 / >>>% Bar 3 >>>[-1+0+1 g8.g ] [-1 g1 gd8 ] / >>>% Bar 4 >>>[-3+0+2 g8.g ] [-3+0+1 g1 gd8 ] / >>>% Bar 5 >>>g84.b g1 bd8 | >>>% Bar 6 >>>\tbbulof\ [+0+0+1 g8.b ] g1 bd8 / >>>% Bar 7 >>>\tbbulof\ [-1+0+1 g8.b ] [-1 g1 bd8 ] / >>>% Bar 8 >>>\tbbulof\ \tbbbulof\ [-3+0+2 g8.b ] \tbbbulof\ [-3+0+1 g1 bd8 ] / >>>============== >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list >>>If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to >>>http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org- >tex- >>>music >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list >> If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to >> http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org- >tex-music >> > >_______________________________________________ >tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list >If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to >http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex- >music _______________________________________________ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
