Re: [Tex-music] universal OS-X binaries

2010-12-03 Thread Bernhard Lang
I tested them on 10.6.5 and they seem to work (no test with real input, just 
checking that the libraries load at program start doesn't fail). If there's a 
possibility to get binaries linked in a way that they don't get broken at a 
change of the OS version I'd be interested to know how that works. Probably by 
compiling and linking with some special Apple software XCode or so? Who has 
compiled and linked these binaries?

best regards
Bernhard


On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:29 , Bob Tennent wrote:

 If you're a pmx/musixtex user on any variety of Mac, I'd be grateful if
 you could test the pmxab, scor2prt and musixflx binaries at
 
 ftp://linus.cs.queensu.ca/musixtex/
 
 These should be usable on *any* version of OS-X, including Tiger,
 Leopard and SnowLeopard, PPC and Intel, 32 and 64 bit.
 
 Please report any problems to me.
 
 Thanks.
 
 Bob T.
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Re: [Tex-music] The Future of MusiXTeX etc

2010-11-17 Thread Bernhard Lang
 It would be very regrettable if the many hours and great deal of knowledge 
 that have been put in these programs would be lost because it is locked up in 
 a programming language that nobody knows any more.
 
 With a port to Lua (or Perl, Python, Ruby), I see as the main advantages from 
 the language itself: easier string handling, dynamic array sizes, hash tables.

If you master any of these languages, you'll understand Pascal and Fortran as 
easily. And what is not obvious can be looked up in the manual. What really 
takes time is understandig the sources of a program you don't have written and 
maintained over time of growth yourself. Would you want to maintain or port 
any program in the chain we are talking about, that would be the most time 
consuming part, not the lack of being familar with the used programming 
language. If there isn't a point like you can't do this and that in the 
employed language, there's no need to port a (very well) running software to 
some more modern language. You're most probably just going to sweep different 
sort of dirt under different places of the rug. The rest ist queston of taste.

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Re: [Tex-music] The Future of MusiXTeX etc

2010-11-16 Thread Bernhard Lang
Thanks Dirk to draw our attention to this new development. Such a major 
change--and it would be a major change--would perhaps also give opportunity to 
think about how to overcome some limitations to MusixTeX and friends which are 
due to its design. Quite some inline TeX coding could probably moved into the 
primary language.

Getting rid of a double pass system won't probably work because TeX itself 
relies on such mechanism. Typesetting is always recursive because some 
informations are not available before some important part of the typesetting 
has already been done. You can't for instance set page links before you have 
set all pages as to know what is going to be put on which page. But setting the 
links may also influence, at least on the scale of details, how a page or 
paragraph is set. The same is true for all the mutually aligned stuff in a 
score.

The main reason for me for staying with MusixTeX (besides never to change 
something which is already up and running) is its outstanding graphical 
clearness concerning representation of rhythm. I think we cannot thank enough 
Don for implenting and maintaining PMX, which, as far as I can judge, does most 
of that miracle.

Sometimes the limitation to 12 voices gets in the way and after being forced 
such way to use an alternative its always a pleasure to return what is 
graphically still the best being available. What is more, once used to the 
PMX/M-Tx language, setting a score in much faster than with any other system I 
know. There is as less overhead as possible though almost anything can be 
controlled.

Bernhard
 
On Nov 16, 2010, at 7:48 , Dirk Laurie wrote:

 
 Recently something has happened to TeX that should change the way we 
 are thinking.  This is the fact that LuaTeX has reached Version 0.50.
 
 In theory, only people living on the bleeding edge use LuaTeX.  There
 is a warning in the Reference Manual:
   Nothing is considered stable just yet. This manual therefore simply 
   reflects the current state of the executable. Absolutely nothing on 
   the following pages is set in stone. When the need arises, anything 
   can (and will) be changed without prior notice.
 
 In practice, the bare necessities are not likely to change after 0.50.  
 I refer to the TeX command \directlua and the Lua function tex.print.  
  \directlua takes one argument, a Lua script, which is executed 
immediately.
  tex.print takes one argument, a string, which is passed to TeX.
 The net effect is that the command \directlua{...} acts much like a TeX
 macro.  
 
 Lua is a minimalist programming language: simple syntax, only eight 
 types (of which the casual user needs six: nil, boolean, number, string, 
 table, function), and 21 reserved words.   All arithmetic is in IEEE 
 double precision.  It has a string library with powerful pattern-matching 
 capability.   It is just the sort of language that can easily translate
 PMX-style notes into MusiXTeX macros, computing note and line spacing
 as it goes along.
 
 LuaTeX gives access to all the power of Lua from inside a TeX document.
 
 Currently an M-Tx user relies on:
 - A preprocessor written in Pascal, compiled to be a stand-alone
   executable, which is different for every operating system
 - PMX, which is written in Fortran, compiled etc, different etc
 - musixflx, which is written in C, compiled etc, different etc
 
 I have on two occasions asked on this list whether anybody wants to 
 help me convert M-Tx to Python.  Christian Mondrup convinced me that 
 we shouldn't, as outside the Unix world people don't already have Python 
 anyway. 
 
 The objection does not apply to LuaTeX.  All recent TeX distributions
 have it, maybe at this stage only as an optional extra, but it is being 
 billed as the next generation TeX engine.
 
 If we had LuaTex in 1992, musixflx could have been implemented in Lua
  and there would be only one TeX pass.
 If we had LuaTeX in 1996, PMX could have been implemented in Lua and
  there would not have been pmxa and pmxb passes.
 If we had LuaTeX in 1999, M-Tx could have been implemented in Lua and
  there would not have been a prepmx pass.
 
 Now it is 2010 and we do have LuaTeX.   
 
 We can go on as we used to: regard musixflx as cast in concrete, rely
 on Don to keep maintaining PMX (nobody else except me, as far as I know,
 has contributed even one line of Fortran code to it) and hope that someone
 occasionally tweaks M-Tx to take account of some recent PMX feature (that
 person is no longer me).
 
 Or we can gradually convert more and more of the functionality of these
 packages into LuaTeX, thus taking advantage of the fact that the next
 generation of TeX package writers will be fluent in it and will be able 
 to maintain the software.  A single package luamusix.sty will do everything.
 
 I think the choice is obvious.  Don't you?
 
 Dirk
 
 PS  If you would like to try LuaTeX for yourself, and find the official
documentation a little daunting, you may like to 

Re: [TeX-Music] WIMA has been shut down

2010-02-25 Thread Bernhard Lang
16GB of disk space is not a great deal for a decent server; I fear  
that 10 TB/Day (with a peak of 103 TB in a single day!) is the real  
problem.



Indeed, 16GB disk space is no big deal, setting up a mirroring system  
could spread the load, though that asks for quite some work, knocking  
at a lot of doors.


As I see it, the very fact that WIMA is international is a problem,  
as it may be hard to find government or corporate sponsorships.


what about international organisations around culture, exchange etc?  
European institutions?


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Re: [TeX-Music] small installation problem

2008-01-17 Thread Bernhard Lang
 The results that I have, now, are quite weird, because:
 1. the creation of a TeX file from MTX of from PMX work pretty fine
 2. the final TeX file is compiled without any error
 3. the final aspect of the compiled TeX file is quite bad, and shows
 all the notes moved on the left side of the systems.

It looks like all you are missing is the musixflx run which does  
actually the spacing for musixtex


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[TeX-music] Program error in fnote, send source to Dr. Don

2007-02-08 Thread Bernhard Lang

Hi Don

I don't know if the error message caused by the code snippet below 
points to a real bug: the code has been generated by mtx with meter set 
to 4/4/4/4. However, do to a superlfuent 16th in the bar before (not 
contained in the snippet) mtx inserted a m1/16/0/0. And this runs into 
the error. Of course, coding the bar before correctly the problem is 
gone.


However, perhaps this points to something else? (I used pmx 2.5)

best regards
Bernhard

 snip 

1 -1 1 1 16 0 0  0.0 0 1 11 16 0

0
./

c85d (S a3 b3 c1 d3 e3 e1 oT0 d3 e3 )S f4 g8- 1 g8 /

 snap 

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Re: [TeX-music] Kuykens's warning, history of MusiXTeX

2006-07-10 Thread Bernhard Lang
In my humble opinion, the whole sentence is obsolete. Can anyone tell 
me

why it is untouchable?


What's about replacing/completing it by an advice to use the 
preprocessors and presenting the manual more as a sort of technical 
reference to the musixTeX internals, being only one (of course very 
important) part the whole game?


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Re: [TeX-music] Kuykens's warning, history of MusiXTeX

2006-07-10 Thread Bernhard Lang
When a person familiar with Word, Powerpoint, or Finale, or other 
WYSIthingy stuff sees me making corrections in a MusiXTeX file after 
he pointed out errors in my score, his face becomes green :-)


Has anybody a similar experience? I doubt things would be different 
with PMX.


The point should be encouraging for PMX/MTX in favor of musixtex, not 
discouraging from musixtex and friends in general (someone who has 
decided to give musixtex a try would not get a green face, I'm quite 
sure, because he most probably already uses tex and knows how to handle 
these kind of files with their syntax). Quite often we have beginner's 
questions about musixtex on the list and the standard advice is did 
you consider using...? Pointing that out at a prominent position in 
the musixtex manual would help.


bernhard

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[TeX-music] pmx bug (?)

2006-05-23 Thread Bernhard Lang

Hi Don

mtxing and then pmxing the appended file I got the following error 
message. Well, there is
a typo in the mtx file, in the first bar there's an a- too much. When 
correcting that, the file compiles properly. However, as pmx tells me 
to send the code to Dr. Don, I do so...


best regards
Bernhard

 This is PMX, Version 2.506, 14 Nov 04
 Opening example-gasparini-larmonico-196.pmx

 Starting first PMX pass

  Bar 1  Bar 2  Bar 3  Bar 4  Bar 5  Bar 6  Bar 7  Bar 8  Bar 9  Bar 10 
 Bar 11
  Bar 12  Bar 13  Bar 14  Bar 15  Bar 16 Program error in fnote, send 
source to Dr. Don


one: Voices B; Clefs F;
Style: one
Meter: m4/4/0/6
Sharps: 2
Size: 16
%%\input exampledef

%% B Ab w155m
r4 d83 a d f1.d a+ a- a- b c | d f a d- c e a e b d g b- a c f a- |


g12 b e g f a d f- g b d g- a8 a- |

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Re: [TeX-music]

2006-05-23 Thread Bernhard Lang

This problem should be solved with MusiXTeX 113. Which version do you
use?


ups, still version 112, thanks for the hint

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[TeX-music]

2006-05-22 Thread Bernhard Lang

hi all

the expression

c1.b

in a pmx file yields the TeX error

! Undefined control sequence.
l.36 \pnotes{1.73}[...]\cclp
{'e}\en%

the problem is solved by giving TeX to see the line

[EMAIL PROTECTED]@cclp}

before it comes over the code it complaines about. Shouldn't that def 
be added to musixtex.tex?


regards
Bernhard


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[TeX-music]

2006-05-22 Thread Bernhard Lang

hi all

the expression

c1.b

in a pmx file yields the TeX error

! Undefined control sequence.
l.36 \pnotes{1.73}[...]\cclp
{'e}\en%

the problem is solved by giving TeX to see the line

[EMAIL PROTECTED]@cclp}

before it comes over the code it complaines about. Shouldn't that def 
be added to musixtex.tex?


regards
Bernhard


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Re: [TeX-music] key-signature layout

2006-04-25 Thread Bernhard Lang

Thanks Andre and Don, merci Jean-Pierre for your suggestions.


\zcharnote g{\musixchar71}   (between \notes and \en)
(but you must care about the spacing yourself)


that's the reason why I asked the question :-). The empty clefs are a 
clever solution. Concernig the size of the symbols and concerning the 
shifted sharps and flats I guess I'll have to dig in the musixtex code. 
There's also a little bug in the placing of sharps: when having three 
sharps in a tenor clef, the grouping of the sharps is not according to 
common typesetting rules.


Bernhard

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Re: [TeX-music] Mac OSX PMX installation problem

2006-03-02 Thread Bernhard Lang
I have downloaded and installed the MAC OSX version of PMX 2.510. To 
test the installation I ran PMX on barsant.pmx. This produced the 
files barsant.pml and pmxaerr.dat (which contains only the single 
integer 0) but no barsant.tex. I also get the error message


Starting first PMX pass
fmt: read unexpected character
apparent state: internal I/O
last format: (f1.0)
lately reading sequential formatted internal IO
Abort trap
logout
[Process completed]


First I would check for the good (?) old line end problem.

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Re: [TeX-music] Mac OSX PMX installation problem

2006-03-02 Thread Bernhard Lang
The interesting thing is that if I launch that binary on barsant.pmx 
with end-of-lines converted to mac format (Ctr-R) then I get the 
reported error message. But if I replace with a unix end-of-line 
format (Ctr-N) file then pmxab completes successfully with a MusiXTeX 
processable file barsant.tex.


At the end of the first pmx pass I get a warning

 WARNING:
 Last non-blank character is ¿, not /,%
 ASCII code: 191

But that doesn't (apparently) influence the resulting tex file. I 
don't get that warning if I add an extra trailing newline to 
barsant.pmx.


I see exactly the same

Now, when I open barsant.pmx with macintosh Ctr-R newlines in a simple 
text editor (like 'pico' coming with the mail reader 'pine') then that 
editor doesn't recognize any newlines! GNU emacs does know about Ctr-R 
newlines, though. My conlusion (for now) is that Mac OSX pmx source 
files _must_ have unix style end-of-lines. OSX, as operated from a 
shell prompt, behaves like unix, and to my best knowledge _is_ 
basically unix.


That's it. I've many unix stuff on my mac (OSX) and I never cared about 
line ends. I'm pretty sure that most of the text/source-code files I've 
been using/compiling have got unix line ends. Moving stuff forth and 
back between Linux/OSX/SunOS never lead to any probllems. However, I 
don't use much good-old-mac programs, especially no editors. There, 
things might be different.


bernhard

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Re: [TeX-music] \centerpause in a macro

2006-02-24 Thread Bernhard Lang

Note where the pause sign and the | have gone!

Is it offending to make a macro with already a \def in its definition?


No, but the | is the problem. This character seems to be declared as 
active (TeX's catcodes) inbetween \notes...\en. Replace the | by a 
\nextstaff and you'll get what you want.


salutations

Bernhard

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Re: [TeX-music] Pronunciation of MusiXTeX

2006-01-23 Thread Bernhard Lang
The difficulty seems to be that the two X do not have the same origin. 
The first stands, as I think, for something like eXtended (in the sends 
of enhanced). About the second Donald Kuth tells us in The TeXbook, 
chapter 1 The Name of the Game: Insiders pronounce the $\chi$ of 
\TeX\ as a Greek chi, not as an `x', so that \TeX\ rhymes with the word 
blecchhh. It's the `ch' sound in Scottish words like {\sl loch\/} or 
German words like {\sl ach\/}; it's a Spanish `j' and a Russian `kh'. 
When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become 
slightly moist.


Thus, pronounciation should be perhaps myu-zicks-tech.

bernhard

On Jan 23, 2006, at 4:39 PM, maurizio codogno wrote:


On 1/23/06, Don Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Without much thought, I've been pronouncing MusiXTeX as 
myu-zicks-teck.

But, if TeX is pronounced teck, then should MusiX be pronounced
myu-zick?


I thought that the pronunciation of TeX rhymed with Bach, so I'd 
pronounce it

myu-zich-tech...

ciao, .mau.
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Re: [TeX-music] learning musixText

2005-12-14 Thread Bernhard Lang
At the other side is a lawyer question. I think I can write for myself 
as
much I like. But am I allowed to publish this work (pdf)? I don't plan 
to

sell it. But would it legal to sell the pdf or printed paper?


Details will depend on the country you're living in, where IMA is 
hosted (Danmark) etc. In general, copyright or author's right or 
however it is called, forbids you basically doing anything without the 
permission of the author/his(here) successor/the person(company) who 
has the right to make money with the work. This ends 70 years 
(according to european copyright regulations) after the author's death. 
There's one exception, being, if you find a manuscript or something 
similar which wasn't accessible to the public before, you'll have the 
copyright/authors right/however it is called on it for 25 years after 
publication.


That all boils down to: anything having been composed by someone who 
died before 1935, resp. which has been accessible to the public before 
1970 you can use freely as you want (as long as you don't reproduce it 
graphically, that's another story, be aware also of reconstructions, 
arrangements etc, these are subject to new copyright)


just to mention: I'm not a lawyer, all this is personal and cannot be 
used in any... (but I've read the european regulations and german 
copyright laws, at least)


hope that helps
Bernhard

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Re: [TeX-music] Page numbers

2005-11-23 Thread Bernhard Lang

How to prevent page numbers to appear in the score? The command
/nopagenumbers doesn't work at all.

I've tried to switch off the numbers and remove pageno from theese
definitions (I've put them to the score of course). Without success.


From what you're telling us I'm pretty sure that you've put the 
\nopagenumbers to the wrong place in your input file.


Did you put the within something TeX considers as a group? In that case 
the changings would be applied only locally. After the end of the group 
(\begin{...} \end{...} or just {...} or \startpiece...\endpiece or 
whatever) the changes are discarded and the global version is restored.


I just checked a MusiXTeX file generated by PMX where I didn't ask for 
page numbers (that's PMX's default, you have to ask explicitely for 
page numbers). Close to the top of the file I see


...
\input musixtex
\input pmx
\smallmusicsize%
\nopagenumbers
...

The \input pmx shouldn't hurt, anyway, \nopagenumbers isn't touched in 
pmx.tex, nor any command which controls page numbering--unless Don used 
some fancy tricks I missed when quickly scanning through the file.


Thus it looks like switching of page numbering should be straight 
forward :-(...


good luck
Bernhard

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Re: [TeX-music] Setting Barlines for Groups of Instruments

2005-08-16 Thread Bernhard Lang


On Aug 15, 2005, at 2:32 PM, Trent J wrote:


Hello all,

Is there a way for setting barlines for instrumental groups in either 
pmx or mtx?


i.e. continous barlines for upper strings violins I  II, Viola. Then 
a separate barline for voice then continuo.


Is there a way to do this.. all that I can find is either a continous 
barline from top to bottom of a score or each instrument gets a 
separate barline.


Any help appreciated...


you have to use inline TeX, see musixdoc.dvi, section on bars, around 
pages 53 or so.


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Re: [TeX-music] grace notes in mtx

2005-08-10 Thread Bernhard Lang

I'm confused. The code

e2 za zb Gm02Afs4 g

does not work for me in PMX. More precisely, PMX finishes, but 
produces bad

TeX. The PMX code does appear to obey the syntax rules OK, asking for 2
graces with multiplicity 0, not 1 (eight note graces) as Bernard 
stated).

I've checked the FORTRAN, and it appears that I never allowed for the
possibility of a multiple grace with no beam at all. The error came at 
the
TeX level, and is what I would have expected, it's trying to build a 
beam

with no horizontal bars:


Sorry, Don and Dirk, for puzzling you. I'd been reusing a PMX file 
which, some time ago, had produced the output I wanted, though 
incorrectly coded. However, at that time I was still using some older 
version of PMX/MusiXTeX. I just checked it with an old installation, 
PMX2506 and MusiXTeX T.99 still do the job. I'll update my knowledge on 
producing grace notes before asking the next question...


regards
Bernhard

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[TeX-music] grace notes in mtx

2005-08-08 Thread Bernhard Lang

hi all

the following code snippet

e2 za zb Gm02Afs4 g

works well with PMX (a chord with two following up 8th grace notes) but 
MTX refuses issuing


Bar end occurs in mid-note: ERROR

Obviously, the last letter 'g' is considered as a normal note, which of 
course isn't. Is there a way to bypass the grace notes directly to PMX, 
switching off MTX' bar counting?


regards
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Re: [TeX-music] grace notes in mtx

2005-08-08 Thread Bernhard Lang

The code dealing with 'G' is ancient, and probably can't cope with all
the extensions to the PMX syntax that have happened since it was 
written.

M-Tx needs to know the number of grace notes, so it counts them by the
primitive expedient (adequate at that time) of expecting the first 
character
after the 'G' to be in the range '0'-'9'.   After that it should just 
pass
the whole 'G' word directly to PMX.  I tried shuffling your many 
options

around, but no sequence seems to work.


Thank you Dirk for you quick answer. Are you aware of any other trick 
by which one could just bypass the code to PMX?


regards
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Re: [TeX-music] Fw: Duette

2005-07-27 Thread Bernhard Lang

On Jul 27, 2005, at 6:22 AM, Veronica Brandt wrote:

Remember a while ago some people were worried about spam so they made 
a page with the email addresses in an image file:

 http://www.icking-music-archive.org/email-addresses.html
I've had a few (maybe three) requests for certain often obscure pieces 
of music through this page.  I'll have to check the page to see where 
they're coming from and why they think I have the answers.


I got also a mail by these ladies some days ago. However, the content 
was slightly more specific, so I answered, telling them also that their 
way of communication was not very helpful on such kinds of lists. Their 
answer in turn showed enough musical background for that I think these 
mails do have a real background. However, they seem not to have learned 
much meanwhile. The remaining part of my opinion about that story I'm 
not going to tell on a public list...


Bernhard

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Re: [TeX-music] Three voices in one note line with PMX - I can't get it ;-)

2005-05-25 Thread Bernhard Lang
One question to this hint: must I always set three voices (I mean in 
every

bar) even though if I somtimes only have two voices, or only one voice?


When using only two voices, pmx keeps track of changing number of 
voices in the same stave (for obvious reasons you may change number of 
voices only from one input block to the next one). However, the 
stave-overlay trick for three voices may fool pmx. You'll have to try 
it out.


If not, use the pmx command rpb which puts an invisible ('blind') rest 
with the length of the bar. Drawback: stems will stay all up or down 
resp. because though invisible, the other voice is still present and 
asks for 'its own' stem direction.


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Re: [TeX-music] Three voices in one note line with PMX - I can't get it ;-)

2005-05-19 Thread Bernhard Lang
1) How can I involve TeX inline commands?
See your third question
2) What does it mean,  XS+.5 in:
shift by +.5 (see the pmx reference card, that's an excellent tool for 
reverse engineering of pmx files, then look up the subject in the PMX 
manual).

3) What means N\ or M\ or L\ or \Mordent or \Shakenw or \n in the 
passage:
That's inline TeX. Any of those strings starting with a backslash and 
ending with a backslash subsequently followed by a blank is passed 
directly to TeX. Instead of  N\ you should read \zhlp N\ which 
codes a non-shifting dotted half note at pitch g in the tenor octave. 
For details of the syntax you should refer to musixdoc.dvi
Other variants of inline TeX start with either two or three consecutive 
backslashes. This controls where PMX inserts the chunk into its own TeX 
output.

hope that helps, happy pmxing
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Re: Letters for pitches (was RE: [TeX-music] Three voices in one note line with PMX - I can't get it ;-)

2005-05-19 Thread Bernhard Lang
==
1 1 4 4 4 4 0 0 1 2 20 0
t
.\
c44 DLess dangerous b a g | \zqu u\  c b a g /
c44 DSafe b a g | \zqu{16}\  c b a g /
==
does the job
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Re: [TeX-music] How can I set three voices in one system with PMX?

2005-05-13 Thread Bernhard Lang
Motion granted, and done! See
http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmxtricks/tricks.html/ 
3voices.pdf

Thanks, Olivier, this is really very useful!
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Re: [TeX-music]

2005-05-12 Thread Bernhard Lang
Como podría conseguir la partitura de Susana un día de Orlando 
di Lasso?.
Gracias

http://www.cpdl.org/modules.php
(type 'lasso' and 'jour' in their Score Search)
En hoppant que ça helpe,
Ek lees nou die dag dat Sint Frans Borgia in sy jong dae
'n komponis was, en dat Lassus sy werk aangeprys het.

Interessant - jeg har søgt på Google efter oplysninger om Francesco
Borgia som komponist. Men resultatet var desværre magert:-(

Francesco Borgia era troppo impegnato a fare il superiore dei Gesuiti
per mettersi anche a comporre... ma è vero che a quel tempo si era
più eclettici di oggi.
ciao, .mau.
Ist Francesco einer der Borgias, die besser mit Gift als mit Noten 
umgehen konnten?
Den norske katolske kirkes website skriver om Frans Borgia 
(http://www.katolsk.no/biografi/frborgia.htm):

Siden pave Alexander VI har navnet Borgia naturligvis hatt en dårlig 
klang, men Frans var blant dem som brakte det i ære.
Auso, ich häb dänchkt, dös siggi ä Mäilinglischte, wo mr numme änglisch 
schwötzt. Abr s'isch offebar nit aso.

but to come back to the original question: very often, a simple google 
search with the title of the piece and the name of the composer will do 
the job. Just that you have to add some keywords like free, sheet 
music, edition etc to avoid lots of CD advertisings (most of them 
even out of sold)

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Re: [TeX-music] Bar problems with PMX

2005-05-10 Thread Bernhard Lang
your 20 pt File is O.K. I suppose you have simly forgotten to
delete the .mx2-File before compiling the changed source. Delete
the .mx2-file and run pmx-tex-musixflx-tex. Then You'll get, what you 
want.

Gerd
I can simlpy describe, what I've done:
First for the file with 10pt:
1) pmxab file.pmx
2) tex   file.pmx
3) musixflx file.pmx
4) tex file.pmx
In the second round, I've exchanged 10pt to 20pt, saved it again to
file.pmx, and then again:
1) pmxab file.pmx
2) tex   file.pmx
3) musixflx file.pmx
4) tex file.pmx
And I got the negative results...
before your second run you have to do what Gerd advises you. Behind the 
scene, MusiXTeX creates two files, here file.mx1 and file.mx2, which 
contain info about horizontal space. file.mx1 is produced/updated 
during each run and indicates the needed space for each line of music. 
file.mx2 is generated by musixflx. When it is absent, MusiXTeX takes 
some default values. When it is there but does not correspond to what's 
to be found in file.tex (and file.mx1) you get strange looking errors. 
Therefore: after changes in file.pmx/.mtx/.tex: delete file.mx* before 
TeXing.

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[TeX-music] musixtex clef and signature

2005-04-14 Thread Bernhard Lang
hi all
I've got two questions to the MusixTeXperts: a) the sequence
\setclef10\changeclefs
produces output only when the clef before is different from 0. Is there 
a possiblility to force the output even when the clef happens not to 
change at that place?

b) the sequence
\generalsignature{-1}\setclef11\changecontext
produces a c clef on the lowest line and a flat sign below the lowest 
line. Is it possible to change that location to the corresponding upper 
line?

well c) is it possible to have them both, below and above (as one finds 
sometimes in historic scores?)

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Re: [TeX-music] Pmx- and M-Tx Mac OSX packages removed!

2005-04-06 Thread Bernhard Lang
Dear Christian
I had also problems using your packages. But I didn't have time to look 
into details for a sort of bug report. What do I have to do to remove 
what they have installed? Closing security holes?

And another problem: I failed to install dvipng on my machine. The 
configure script stumbles across the kpathsea library. It cannot 
find/use it although it must be there and working since TeX works. How 
is this on your machine? Do you use dvipng, or is there an alternative? 
dvipng seems not to be supproted by the fink collection.

best regards
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[TeX-music] new mtx version

2005-03-28 Thread Bernhard Lang
hi Dirk
As you announced recently a new MTX version, I'd have a wish (without 
any idea how difficult  it would be to implement):
The automatic octave at the start of a piece without possibility of 
absolute correction (e.g. as a04) results in complicated code when two 
different version of the same piece are incorporated in one souce (by 
using the CASE statement). When changing clefs or staves, the octave 
has often to be readjusted according to the clef. With the possibility 
of giving absolute octaves when prefered (as in PMX) this problem would 
not occur.

best regards
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[TeX-music] mtx patch suggestion

2005-03-18 Thread Bernhard Lang
Hi all
when mtx-ing with more than 9 vocal voices, mtx produces under certain 
circumstances faulty pmx/tex code like

\mtxAssignLyrics10{...} which should be \mtxAssignLyrics{10}{...}
I suggest the following patch to lyrics.c (I don't know how that reads 
in the pascal version)

546c546
   sprintf(l, \\mtxAssignLyrics%s%s, instr, atag);
---
   sprintf(l, \\mtxAssignLyrics{%s}%s, instr, atag);
By the way, I had some problems compiling the sources under MacOSX. p2c 
seems not to work out of the box, neither g77. But for compiling the 
c-sources, p2c.h is needed and some modifications to the makefile have 
to be done (having some c-files as sources in the c-only version and as 
targets in the pas-p2c-c version induces a conflict).
As p2c is under GNU copyleft, couldn't that file be included in the 
mtxC distribution?

regards
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Re: [TeX-music] PMX - segmentation fault

2005-01-25 Thread Bernhard Lang
I can reproduce the error similarily on a Redhat Fedora Core 2 pc when 
processing the sample source with pmxab 2.501..

Furthermore, on the Fedora pc a pmx 2.506 binary compiled with g77 
fails with a segmentation fault if there are trailing newline 
characters in the pmx source. If I remove the newline characters pmxab 
fails with an error

 nsyst,ibarcnt: 1 0
 There are more systems than bars.
regardless of compiling method and pmxab version.
I've seen similar things in earlier versions. The solution was to play 
around with the end of the file, i.e. no new-line at end or an empty 
line with a comment character at the first position etc.

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Re: [TeX-music] parisitic music archive

2004-11-17 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Nov 17, 2004, at 5:03 PM, Christof Biebricher wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:

I agree that it is a nuisance to find our open source scores thus 
made
subject to bargaining. However, what can we do about it? I'm unsure
whether http://www.pianofiles.com/ breaks any 'laws' at all.
OK, if I am the only one here complaining, let's quit here.
Unless we have seen the copy http://www.pianofiles.com/ offers , we 
can not
decide whether
we can protest. If the sender of the score still credits Jean-Pierre 
Coulon
as the editor, we can not do much. If, however, a more or less 
identical score
is offered with another name as editor, than it is
clearly theft of brain work, and a protest is appropriate.

It is probably not the fault of the maintainer. If someone would offer 
`stolen'
material to our archive, it would probably remain undetected unless
the original author complains.
On http://www.pianofiles.com/ one finds a statement about how to play 
the game: when inscribing you have to announce all scores you can 
offer. When you found a score in the data base then you'll get the 
email address of the author (once you are inscribed, otherwise you'll 
get only a message that it is present in the data base). Then it is up 
to you to contact the author and get the score from him under his 
conditions. Thus, this site offers a search facillity specialised on 
piano scores, not scores. What you are paying for is the info about 
where to find the score.
As one has to get the scores themselves directly from the author (or 
from whomever typed the data in over there), copyright is not involved 
here. Sure, if the person who entered the info in that data base is not 
the author and does not follow what is stated in the the copyright 
paragraph, that would break law, but is still no problem of 
pianofiles.com

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Re: [TeX-music] MtX compilation problem (linux)

2004-10-18 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Oct 17, 2004, at 9:20 PM, Guido Milanese wrote:
after a computer crash I am reinstalling all my musitex system. All 
right with
musixtex and pmx. A problem now with mtx. I try to compile following 
the
instructions on the README under section 5 (Compiling with a C 
compiler on a
GNU system). I am on a Linux box, Mandrake 10.0. Mtx version is 0.55.

As I type make prepmxc I get this message:
make: *** No rule to make target `globals.pas', needed by `globals.c'. 
 Stop.
It looks like the distribution you are using (to be found in 
mtxC055.zip) is broken. The same happens to me (Mac OSX) when unzipping 
the archive file and proceeding like suggested in README. First of all, 
the Makefile contains references to the pascal sources and make tries 
to generate the c sources using p2c (which is pointless since that has 
already been done for this distribution). Consequently, make fails 
since the pascal sources are not present. But even when removing those 
references from Makefile, compilation fails since the file p2c/p2c.h is 
missing.

Thus, either you have to get p2c and use the pascal distribution or the 
missing file should be included into the distribution (if possible due 
to licensen issues).

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Re: [TeX-music] MtX compilation problem (linux)

2004-10-18 Thread Bernhard Lang
But p2c is obsolescent.  It has survived
despite being unmaintained for eleven years because there was no decent
alternative.  Now there is one.  It is only a question of time, see
   http://www.freepascal.org/fpcmac.html
before fpc runs on a Mac, and then the last remaining reason for
providing C source will disappear.
Without knowing details about how they compare, what's about GPC? (aka 
GNU pascal, being yet another front end for the gcc) That covers almost 
every machine which is able to distinguish 0s from 1s. Keeping the 
pascal sources compileable by this thing (if possible) would simplify 
life for all who already use it.

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Re: [TeX-music] Is the archive down?

2004-10-18 Thread Bernhard Lang
I can connect, just tired it, and I connected several times today (in 
Geneva/Switzerland it is now 16:45).

bernhard
On Oct 18, 2004, at 4:44 PM, Don Simons wrote:
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But p2c is obsolescent.  It has survived
despite being unmaintained for eleven years because there was no 
decent
alternative.  Now there is one.  It is only a question of time, see
   http://www.freepascal.org/fpcmac.html
before fpc runs on a Mac, and then the last remaining reason for
providing C source will disappear.
Without knowing details about how they compare, what's about GPC? (aka
GNU pascal, being yet another front end for the gcc) That covers 
almost
every machine which is able to distinguish 0s from 1s. Keeping the
pascal sources compileable by this thing (if possible) would simplify
life for all who already use it.

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Re: [TeX-music] Free Pascal and MTX 0.55

2004-10-18 Thread Bernhard Lang
I downloaded and compiled gnu pascal and tried to compile prepmx, to 
see if this could be used straight forward. Unfortunately, there are 
some errors which seem to have almost all to do with string handling

s[0] := ...  - strings.pas:46: error: constant out of range
and lots of warnings
files.pas:125: warning: missing string capacity -- assuming 255
thus no problem but waste of memory
and warnings of the type
files.pas:68: error: function call as a statement -- value is ignored
files.pas:69: warning: assignment: typed const misused as initialized 
variable

Is there a simple way to circumvent these problems with incompatible 
pascal dialects? (I presume, that's the problem here, and its a long 
time ago that I've been using pascal...)

bernhard
On Oct 18, 2004, at 12:02 PM, maurizio codogno wrote:
Dirk:
It is only a question of time, see
  http://www.freepascal.org/fpcmac.html
before fpc runs on a Mac, and then the last remaining reason for
providing C source will disappear.
Well, I'd be a bit wary, unless someone would be so kind to provide
binaries for the major distributions. After all, downloading at
least 25 MB for the distribution of Free Pascal just for a single
compilation could be a bit too much, if somebody does not program
in Pascal.
I managed to compile the C sources (on CygWin, so it should be
quite portable!) with the command
gcc -o prepmx *.c
after getting p2c.h and either placing it to /usr/include/p2c/p2c.h
or leaving it in the directory and modifying all C sources: the line
#include p2c/p2c.h
near the beginning of each file should become
#include p2c.h
I am including p2c.h (renamed to p2c.h.txt so that it should be
propagated by the server) for the brave people.
ciao, .mau.
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Re: [TeX-music] full bar rests and fermata

2004-10-05 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Oct 5, 2004, at 2:21 AM, Simon Dreher wrote:
Why the fermata at the last full bar rest is shifted to the right and 
not centered in the middle of the bar? How can I get it centered as on 
notes?
The full bar rests seem to be a little bit more to the right, too; you 
can see it much better if you remove one of the % in the example. 
Shouldn't they be centered exactly?
You may consider this as a bug--or as a feature. What happens is that 
MusiXTeX alignes the left of rest and fermata symbols together. You 
could experiment with some centered TeX boxes of zero length to get 
that looking better.

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Re: [TeX-music] breve and double bar rest with m-tx / pmx, also with fermata

2004-10-05 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Oct 5, 2004, at 2:21 AM, Simon Dreher wrote:
how can I code a breve note with m-tx / pmx?
using length '9'. This should work out of the box and all your 
questions should be answered by this.

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[TeX-music] bug in mtx?

2004-06-01 Thread Bernhard Lang
hi Dirk
when MTXing the following code
---snip---
oneline: Voices B; Clefs F;
Style: oneline
Meter: m8/2/0/0
d0 c || f d c9 || a0+ d- c9 || e0 d c9 || a0 d c9 ||
---snap---
additional bar lines are inserted in the middle of all bars except in 
the first. This not a severe problem as starting with m4/2/0/0 and 
changing meter after the first bar solves it. However, it might point 
to a bug which could cause more difficults in other cases?

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Re: [TeX-music] bug in mtx?

2004-06-01 Thread Bernhard Lang
You are getting exactly what you ask.  Maybe not what you think you 
ask.
|| is not a bar line, it is a visual separator.  It can appear in the 
middle
of a bar, and the way you have coded this excerpt, in the middle of 
the bar
is just where it appears every time.
What you want is probably

   Meter: 0/2
Thank you Dirk, I missed some finer details of mtx/pmx meter/bar line 
encoding. Your answer tells me two things: a) MTX does not see a pickup 
in my example since '||' is not recognised as bar line (am I right?) 
and b) that bars of length brevis should be noted 0/2 and not 8/2. 
The PMX manual has indeed a section on bars with n/1, but what is the 
aim of that feature? Where's the difference?

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Re: [TeX-music] beams with sharps flats and naturals(with musixtex)

2004-04-15 Thread Bernhard Lang
the idea is to have a key signature and then to group
the notes of a melody, but this notes have accidents
and some are natural.
Could you provide a more concrete example of what you want to get and 
your code which gives the problem?

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Re: [Tex-music] MusiXMore error

2004-03-22 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Mar 20, 2004, at 10:42 AM, Guido Milanese wrote:

Dear Experts,
while compiling a tex file of a vocal score obtained from mtx | pmx
(both do not complain) I receive this error message:
*
MusiXMore ADditional instruments T.99 24 March 2000
)
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
to be read again
   *
argument 0*
 **\elemskip
\off #1-\advance [EMAIL PROTECTED] #1
   \kern #1
\xnum #1#2#3-\off {#1\elemskip }
 \zcharnote {#2}{\eightit #3}\off
{-#1\elems...
l.37 \pnotes{4.39}\ast{.00}\xnum{0***}{`f}3
\ibl1{''b}9\qb1b\qb1c\beginmel%
*
The offending TeX line should be this one:
\pnotes{4.39}\ast{.00}\xnum{0***}{`f}3\ibl1{''b}9\qb1b\qb1c\beginmel%
The problem is, I think, the '***' sequence. I tried to remove it,
leaving just a zero, but the compilation was not successfull because
musixflx complained saying:
Too less bars or \mulooseness too large ?
and the final result was a disaster.
I've observed something like this in the past and if I remember well it 
was due to a misstyping which led to a negative octave i.e. a note 
which would appear far below the lines. Apparently, pmx does not check 
against underflow when using relative octave input (-/+ or just 
nothing)

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Re: [Tex-music] New PMX bugfix version 2.501

2004-03-03 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Cornelius C. Noack wrote:

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Andre Van Ryckeghem wrote:

How can i put a '' in a D-command, ie: DR\uckpos.

Thanks
Andre
 Olivier's method is a bit difficult (or at least lengthy)
 to use for non TeXperts. Perhaps someone can come up
 with a simple macro for this, to use with PMX ?
What's about \def\ue{\u} in the preamble and then DR\ue ckpos at 
place in question in the body?

regards
Bernhard
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Re: [Tex-music] musicxml

2004-02-09 Thread Bernhard Lang
Dear Irwin

Thanks for that hint about note edit.

There exists an e-mail list for MusicXML developers:
http://www.recordare.com/lists/index.html
I already subscribed there and posted more or less the same question. 
The answer was a clear no.

Grüße
Bernhard
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[Tex-music] slurs, was: PMX nested slur limitation

2003-12-10 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Christof Biebricher wrote:

 Old music scores where each voice has its own stave should contain
 neither slurs nor ties. There are unnecessary. Slurs originated in
 string music where the notation really made sense. It later was
 introduced to other instrumental music as `imitatio violistica'.

I was aready expecting a link like that when I saw `imitatio violistica'
together with slurs in Scheidt's Tabulatura Nova. Do you have other
sources obout this topic? I recently discussed with a violinist about
articulation and finally we didn't feel competent enough to come to an
end.

 In later music, I usually omit melismatic slurs, but since
 the bar is fixed, one has to use ties.

Ties you'll find quite early, together with the first printed scores. The
term Partitur / partition / partitura relies on the Italian word
spartire, to separate, to divide into parts and describes the preparing
work of the organist/luthist... who had to devide the voices in the
voice books by inserting vertical bars (helps a lot in counting!) and to
write them up in the spartitura, a score like collection of (reduced)
voices, ordered by vertical bars. Still today in Italy a piano reduction
is called spartito. As soon as you have bars you'll need ties.
 But also slurs turn up quite early in vocal music (Monteverdi, T. Merula,
two examples just coming into my mind).


Bernhard



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Re: [Tex-music] RE: staff jumping beams--my own problem solved

2003-12-01 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Roland Stigge wrote:

 On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:34, Bernhard Lang wrote:
  The only clean solution: write your own input routine which is capable of
  handling the different line end codings.

 Feel free to use already existing tools like dos2unix / fromdos (vs.
 unix2dos / todos) usually shipped with Unix-like OS distributions. The
 relevant Debian package is e.g. called sysutils.

Of course, but this means one file version for one system, one for the
next and so on. This yields exactly to the sort of problems into which Don
got. As *clean* I would consider one input file for all OSs, i.e. in this
case a program which is happy with all different forms of line end
definitions.

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