I'm trying to figure out how to draw an ARBITRARY diagonal line. There's a
macro \varline in musixtex.tex that is used for xtuplet brackets, but it
doesn't work as I would expect from the description:
% varline #1=height[dimen] #2=length[dimen] #3=slope (1\eqiv 1.125degree)
% (comments and ideas from Ian Collier) (from -20 upto 20 )
% This macro is used by some of the others which follow,
% using it directly it must be set in zero box
Minor point: the 1st argument is a number, not a dimension. Here's a test
file, in which the 8 slanted lines should get progressively longer. THEY
DON'T. Can anyone figure out how to dumb this macro down so it simply draws
the advertised line, starting from the same point every time (like it seems
to be doing for the last 4 lines)? It would also be nice to be able to set
the thickness of the diagonal line, and to remove the restriction on slope.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
=============================
1 1 2 4 2 4 0 0
0 8 20 0
t
.\
\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{2pt}5}}\ e44 g /
\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{4pt}5}}\ e44 g /
\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{6pt}5}}\ e44 g /
\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{8pt}5}}\ e44 g /
\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{10pt}5}}\ e44 g /
\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{12pt}5}}\ e44 g /
\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{14pt}5}}\ e44 g /
\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{16pt}5}}\ e44 g /
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--Don Simons
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