Am Dienstag, 2. Juni 2009 05:56:35 schrieb Don Simons:
> I'm not sure I understand the question, so I'll just give you some general
> info. \meterfont is a MusiXTeX macro that designates the font to be used
> for numbers in time signatures. Musixtex.tex assigns it a value depending
> on \musicsize. So whatever basic \musicsize you have selected in PMX (or in
> raw MusiXTeX) (probably 16 or 20), \meterfont will automatically be
> assigned a value that makes the numbers in numerical time signatures fill
> the appropriate amount of vertical space, roughly half the height of the
> staff. You probably would never need to change its automatically assigned
> value. You could do it if you really wanted to, for example by using inline
> TeX to say \\def\meterfont{cmr8}\ , but if you then used a normal numerical
> time signature, the numbers would come out the wrong size.
>
> To use the special half-circle and circle characters in a time signature,
> several things have to be done "by hand". They are accomplished by the
> inline TeX that I most recently supplied. A font must be selected so that
> the characters will be the right size. Then some coding has to be done to
> get them to appear in the right place. For 16-pt staves, the right font is
> old-feta16. Again, if for some reason you want them to be a different size,
> you can for example simply replace "\\font\halfc=old-feta20\" with
> \\font\halfc=old-feta16\ in the inline TeX I supplied. But then you may
> also want to adjust the positioning of the character; to do that you must
> fiddle with the number after "\raise" (for vertical position), or after
> \kern (for horizontal positioning). I can't give you a recipe for this, it
> has to be trial and error.
>
> --Don Simons
>Don, now I understand the meaning of the different parameters to shift the meters and the size of the characters. I choose old-feta23 to enlarge the half-circle so I get a pleasant layout together with the meter of 16-pt. Thank you very much once more for your help. Hermann _______________________________________________ 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
