Christian Mondrup wrote
>David Bobroff wrote:
>>One mistake did not make its presence known until I had
>> run scor2prt. At that point one of the parts showed an extraneous small
>> flat sign near a note head. I tracked it down and it was being caused by
a
>> dash (-) where there should not have been one. When I went back to the
>> full score *.pmx file to eliminate it I got strange behavior in the
output.
>>
>> If I don't have this extra dash then the page layout goes crazy.
Because of the line-folding that did occur in the original posting, I'd
rather not spend time trying to untangle the pmx file at this point. But a
"-" alone in staff #1 will cause a "flat" as a figure below the staff. And,
if there are any figures at all in the score, PMX uses a different algorithm
for calculating vertical spacing. So if the extraneous "-" was the only
figure in the score, it is not a surprise that the page layout changes when
it is removed.
>If you quote larger portions of code directly in your email you can't be
sure
>of how the line breaks come out at the receivers. You should compact you
code
>(e.g. using zip) and attach it instead. Then it's much easier for the
receivers
>to handle it.
I cannot recall the policy on attachments in the mutex list, but some
mailing lists discourage them. In case Werner tells us not to include
attachments in postings, there are two other possible approaches I would
recommend for transmitting pmx files:
1. (Always best) Try to distill the pmx file down to the absolute minimum
that still exhibits the problem. This could greatly ease the analysis, as I
often have to do that myself to isolate the problem. It's then OK to
include the reduced file in a posting, but do be very sure there are no
lines longer than about 60 characters.
2. If there's a good reason to include a longer file, put it on an anonymous
FTP site somewhere, or mail it privately.
So if you're still having trouble with this particular file, I'll be glad to
help; please use one of the suggested methods for transmitting it.
--Don Simons
