Hi, Rodolfo-- Welcome to the club!
Your issue with the dot reveals two problems, one with the details in the manual, and the other one a bug. In the instructions for moving dots, I should have included a suggestion to put the dot last in the note command to avoid any confusion. Your command was "c2d-0.7+14l" which literally says C, half note, dot, move down .7, move right 14, lower stem. There is no octave specified, so it gets the octave from the previous note in that voice, which was the low d. What you should have entered was "c24dl-.07+1. Unfortunately you exposed a bug, or maybe we could call it a feature. For mysterious reasons buried deep in the PMX coding, when there are two notes in a chord that are one step apart and one is the main note, PMX will sometimes internally switch their roles. But even after the suggested correction, PMX got confused in your example, and applied the shifts to the dot on the D, not the C. So you could get what I think you want by fooling PMX and entering r4 c24ld zd3 ?-1 zf3 zd4d-2+1 ? / Note that I also shifted the arpeggio symbol to the left. Finally I'll point out that if you had entered the notes from the top down, making the d24 the main note, the dot moving confusion goes away: r4 dd24l ?-1 zcd-2+1 zf- zd ? / That's how I would have entered it. And note that I don't need to enter the octaves or the dot symbol in the chord notes unless needed, but I did need to use "-" to get the F in the right octave. Happy PMXing! --Don > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music- > bounces+dsimons=roadrunner....@tug.org] On Behalf Of Rodolfo Medina > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2019 6:43 AM > To: tex-music@tug.org > Subject: [Tex-music] PMX: problem with shifted dot > > Hi all. > > As suggested by some listers, I'm finally learning to use PMX, vrey useful and > precious tool. Thanks to Don. In the test file I'm attaching, in bar 3, there's a > problem with a shifted dot. According to the PMX manual p.7, I put `-0.7+1' > after the `d', in order to properly shift it, but I get un undesirable effect as > you can see processing the file with `musixtex text.pmx': the note c4 is > lowered down by 2 octaves and becomes c2. Please help avoiding it. > > Thanks, > > Rodolfo > ------------------------------- > TeX-music@tug.org mailing list > If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to > https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
