2012/8/19 Don Simons <dsim...@roadrunner.com>: > Meanwhile, I have a question for Hermann, Rainer, Dirk, or anyone else who > cares to jump in: Can you provide an example of an M-Tx source that manages > to change the number of instruments in midstream.
No, I have never needed it. > avoid the extra steps and get M-Tx to directly create a .pmx that reflects > the changes in noinst. M-Tx has something I call a "control paragraph". It may contain only comments and preprocessor directives. The control paragraphs are at present preamble-only: they must all appear before the first music paragraph. The clean way to do changes in noinst etc would be to allow control paragraphs later too. I have considered allowing this in the past. There seemed to be no PMX way to change the number of instruments except a phony new movement. It would have involved mastering more PMX than I use regularly, which is the sort of knowledge that one loses quickly, and I decided against implementing something I would not understand a few years later. So the present situation is that a user can by cleverly inserting lines starting "%%LiM" get the required effect, but that user would need to master the required PMX for himself. By the way, I've often cursed the requirement that line numbers and page numbers are compulsory. It forces me to do the complete score, print it out, manually pencil in line numbers, insert the required line breaks, do the score again, adjust those line breaks that now look uncomfortable because the earlier ones affected what follows, etc. Dirk ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
