Rodolfo et al-- The purpose of those two commands is to adjust the vertical spacing between systems on a page so that the distance between the bottom line of the last staff in each system and the top line of the first staff in the next system are all equal. \starteq must be entered somewhere in the first system on the page and \endeq somewhere in the next to last. You would only insert these near the end of the editing process when all the line breaks and page breaks have been finalized.
The reason for having these is that normally MusiXTeX tries to equalize the vertical gap between the lowest object in the bottom staff of each system and the highest object in the top staff of the next. If either of those is a note or rest outside the staff, that will make the space between the bottom staff line in that system and the top one in the next larger than what it would otherwise be. And (to my eye) sometimes that's not necessary and I'd prefer ignoring any protruding notes when equalizing the vertical spaces between systems. The way the macros work is that they insert very long, invisible, vertical struts below every system except the last, and above every system except the first. When MusiXTeX initially sets up the page it considers those struts as visible objects, and after stacking up the systems it finds that it is much taller than the available space. When it scales down the vertical gaps between staves (which are now large and equal) it leads to the desired result. --Don > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music- > bounces+dsimons=roadrunner....@tug.org] On Behalf Of Rodolfo Medina > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 11:26 PM > To: tex-music@tug.org > Subject: [Tex-music] PMX: \starteq and \endeq > > Hi Don, hi Bob, hi everyone: > > I wish to know the meaning and the role of the two PMX internal commands > \starteq and \endeq... Can you please help me...? Thanks. > > Cheers, > > 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
