I trully cannot help with the problem, but I just wanted to say that your
music is beautiful!!! And looks great, too! Great job with the fonts!

-Sami Amiris

2015-09-20 20:14 GMT+03:00 <dsim...@roadrunner.com>:

> Some months ago I posted some fonts and a file musixjaz.tex with macros
> that enable typesetting in a way that emulates a jazz fake book. I've had
> very little feedback. Nevertheless, I'd like to point out shortcoming and
> ask if anyone is interested in pursuing a fix. I had created a book of
> original jazz compositions by a friend and myself (
> http://www.pchpublish.com/bbbxv/jasdas.pdf). While visiting him we played
> thru some of them with me on clarinet. It was very taxing to do the
> necessary transposition, so later I sat down and tried transposing the
> pmx/musixtex score. But I discovered that relative accidentals don't work
> :-( . The reason is that in musixjaz.tex, the macros \fl, \sh, and \na are
> redefined in a simplistic way to create accidentals in the jazz font. The
> challenge is to figure out a way to preserve the same functionality with
> basic untransposed scores, but also to get relative accidentals to work
> properly with the jazz font accidentals, so jazz scores can be tra!
>  nsposed.
>
> Any takers?
>
> A related and even greater challenge is to figure out a way to transpose
> the jazz chord symbols.
>
> --Don Simons
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