Brilliant! It fixes the problem with or without Av. I would never have found this myself. Thank you, Andre!!!
--Don > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music- > bounces+dsimons=roadrunner....@tug.org] On Behalf Of Andre Van > Ryckeghem > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2019 6:53 AM > To: Werner Icking Music Archive <tex-music@tug.org> > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] TeXperts: Help! > > I do not know if this could work, but adding a skip before the macro that start > on line 45 (uneqprob.tex) moves the system down > > \vskip\parskip\hbox to\hsize{\vbox{\hsize=.70\hsize% \contpiece > > Andre > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > From: Don Simons > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2019 6:08 AM > To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' > Subject: [Tex-music] TeXperts: Help! > > I'm getting close to releasing a version of PMX that enables arbitrary blank > gaps at the beginning or middle of any staff, relying on TeXniques designed > by Olivier Vogel and expanded by Bob Tennet. In modifying PMX it hasn't > been at all easy to account for all the possibilities involving movement > breaks, page breaks, bar numbering, etc., but now I have most of the > horizontal spacing issues worked out. However, there are still some > problems with vertical spacing, illustrated with the attached plain MusiXTeX > file eqprob.tex. It uses Olivier's basic method for shortening a line by putting > it into a \hbox. The file also uses the long-standing PMX method "Av" to try > to get equal vertical spacing. Av works by including very long, equal-length > vertical struts in all lines. This in effect gives all systems equal heights which > add up to more space than available on one page, so when forced into the > actual vertical space in the page, they all end of with the same amount of > blank vertical space being clipped off, leaving equal vertical space between > the bottom line of one system and the top line of the next. If you compile > the example, you'll see that the method breaks down for the shortened > system in line 4, probably related to the fact that the \hbox is handled > differently during the vertical squeezing/trimming process. > > The other file uneqprob.tex has all of the struts removed, and represents > what PMX would give without Av. Now the space above line 4 comes out too > small. > > I'd be very grateful if someone could figure out a general way to get the > \hbox'ed line handled the same way as the other lines in both cases, > restoring the equal vertical spacing. > > I did find that I could manually reduce or expand the size of the unequal gap > using \spread{...} with a positive or negative argument. This command, > defined in pmx.tex, adds a negative \vskip right before the next \contpiece. > But it takes trial and error to find the right value of the argument, so it's not > at all the ideal solution. > > --Don > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------- 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
