First, let me say I think it's really cool that we can communicate this way, by sending input files, and then having the recipient be able to process them with no problems, or at least with the same problems encountered by the sender.
As to this example, I did get the first file to work perfectly, while the 2nd choked in PMX. In the first, M-tx had automagically inserted meter changes to 7/8 at the start of both endings. While the 2nd one is not necessary, it didn't cause any trouble. In the 2/4 version, M-tx inserted meter changes to 3/8 after the first 4 eighths of each ending. But it did not inset the necessary meter change back to 2/4 at the start of the 2nd ending. So PMX stopped at the "/" that M-tx inserted after the first 4 eighths of the 2nd ending, because it though it was still in 3/8. Evidently M-tx put the "/" in the right place, but neglected to signal the meter change to 2/4 four eighths earlier. In the absence of the necessary meter changes, sorry but PMX doesn't seem to be as smart as M-tx. It has to be told about them explicitly. --Don Simons > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Dirk > Laurie > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:13 AM > To: Werner Icking Music Archive > Subject: [Tex-music] Why does this work under 4/4 but not 2/4? > > I have a strophic song with an upbeat, a refrain, and a last-verse volta. > > It's not pretty to revert to four verses just for the last note before the > repeat, so I repeat from the beginning. > Now the curious thing is this: if the meter is 4/4, this works. But if I > change > absolutely nothing except the time signature, it does not. > > I append the two M-Tx files. > > BTW (this is not the point of this post) I had to insert a "then" in the m-tx > Lua > file that comes with the Ubuntu package for m-tx. ------------------------------- 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
