Re: pmx - mtx ?

2001-03-06 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, HEINECKE Johannes FTRD/DMI/LAN wrote: I have some PMX-files which I wouldlike to convert into MTX-files to ease the addition of lyrics. Do you of any scripts which can can do this? This is easy, you do not need a script. You make a new preamble as described in the mtx

Re: Win-Linux PMX text file transfers

2001-02-23 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Don Simons wrote: I've been experimenting with my latest PMX distribution from http://www.dslnorthwest.net/~don/pmx/pmx.html . It was created and ZIPped under Win/DOS. Using "unzip" I decompressed the file on a linux box. After making the two usual syntax changes and

Re: Win-Linux PMX text file transfers

2001-02-23 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Christian Mondrup wrote: Suggestions - unfortunately no, observations - unfortunately (?) yes! For a test I attempted to let pmx23 (built with f2c gcc) process the pmx output from the mtx source of my latest published madrigal by Mogens Pedersn (Amor, per tua merc).

Re: MikTeX????

2001-01-29 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Dirk Laurie wrote: Don Simons skryf: I just got a new laptop and tried installing MikTeX, which I recall hearing was supposed to be pretty good. So far, to say the least, I'm highly unimpressed. I expected a windows interface for configuring and running the

Re: too much space between systems

2001-01-12 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Michael Koenig wrote: Hello, I have set a 8-system-piece. It has 3 pages with 3/3/2 systems. Now, on the pages 1 and 2 the vertical space between the systems is much too large for my taste. On page 3 the same space is a little to small. :-( pmx calculates the

Re: pmx problem

2000-12-15 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Christian Mondrup wrote: Christof Biebricher wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Guido Milanese wrote: true for MusiXTeX but not necessarily for 'friends'. An mtx source file created and edited under DOS will cause paragraph length errors when compiled with prepmx

Re: pmx problem

2000-12-14 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Guido Milanese wrote: Hello experts! After using pmx for several years on dos and later on dosemu, I installed the unix version. I have the following problem. At musixtex compilation stage, the compiler complains as in this instance: \input musixlyr as in my old

Re: Installation of fonts

2000-12-11 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Klaus Priechenfried wrote: I'm new to MusicTex and to this list. I'm running SuSE-Linux 7.0 and Latex works well. After the download of the tar file of MusicTex and I also use SuSE-Linux 7.0. Are you sure that MusicTex is the thing you want? It has been replaced some years

Re: Installation of fonts

2000-12-11 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Klaus Priechenfried wrote: Trying to open the musicTex.dvi-file caused an error in kde2, the system didn#t react anymore and I had to reboot the whole Linux I forgot to answer that. Apparently you overlooked some basic advantages of Linux. You can kill any process WITHOUT

Re: Metronomic specifications

2000-11-15 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Daniel Taupin wrote: However, when looking at scores made at the beginning of the 20th century I often find scores with a metronomic specification such as quarter-note = 100 (up to 132) although this piece has a nearly continuous flow of 16th notes. This means, in the

Re: pmx setup

2000-10-31 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Pantelis Andreou wrote: Hello everyone, I use miktex so maybe this is the problem. In order to built the barsant.dvi file I need to put the following files in my working directory: pmx.tex musixtex.tex musixmad.tex musixadd.tex and all the above files are mentioned

Re: missing syllable in lyrics

2000-09-29 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Barry Gold wrote: In the following piece, the word "mind" appears under the quarter note at the end of its bar, instead of under the dotted half note where it should appear. The next word, "It", completely disappears. Can anyone help? gf dd | fe

Re: bar-less music in M-Tx

2000-09-04 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Alexander V. Voinov wrote: Christof Biebricher wrote: I often typeset bar-less vocal music. M-Tx produces bar lines at the end of a block. This can be easily used to insert bar lines where you want them, e.g., to emphasize a rhyme. I'm sorry, I didn't

Re: Musixtex and the rivals

2000-08-18 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an idea to try a cottage industry publishing music, i.e. offering a music typesetting service to local composers etc. I am very impressed with Musixtex especially as it runs on Linux and this would appear to be a suitable tool for

Re: multiple uptext lines?

2000-08-08 Thread Christof Biebricher
Therefore, with inline TeX you can add more \zchar stuff to your liking. Christof -- Prof. Dr. Christof Biebricher Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry D-37070 Göttingen Tel: +49 (551) 201 1442 FAX: +49 (551) 201 1435 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: b stem up

2000-05-30 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Michael König wrote: the following M-Tx -code ( c4d [l b1 af ] ) ^

Re: Compiling M-Tx from the C sourcesn

2000-05-22 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Sat, 20 May 2000, Sebastien wrote: Hello, I've just installed Linux and have tried to install M-Tx, however I have not succeeded in compiling the C files :( Has anyone done this before, and if so how ? is a Makefile available ? There is no need for a Makefile since there is only one

Re: Score Order

2000-05-18 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mthimkhulu Molekwa wrote: Typically, scores of SATB with piano puts the SATB above the piano. What about the addition of other instruments? Where would you put things like solo flutes or violins, or percussion. What about a comination of instruments such as SATB

Re: multi-lingual music glossary

2000-05-09 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Bernt Christandl wrote: This glossary, too, could not answer my original question "english horn", so i made a suggestion to enter this term. Because this is an spelling that does not exist. Try `Englischhorn' and you get the english translation `cor anglais' (actually

Re: meter with notes

2000-03-24 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Maurizio Codogno wrote: In some Italian scores I found meter indication in a peculiar way: instead of 4/4 or C, for example, you have 4 \ql (let me write it 4 \over \ql for simplicity). Similarly, 2/2 is 2\over \hl and 6/8 is 2 \over \qlp . I haven't seen

Re: Musical symbols in text

2000-03-23 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Silas S. Brown wrote: Hi, Is there some way of putting individual musical symbols in text documents, without having to figure out how to write a hundred lines of MusiXTeX? Eg. if I wanted to say "B-flat", with a proper flat sign, in a LaTeX paragraph, how would I go

Re: PMX funny error message

2000-03-17 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Silas S. Brown wrote: Hi, When I run the following through PMX, I get "Bar 1 Bad error in fnote". Any ideas why? I can't figure out what's wrong with bar 1 but obviously there's a "bad error" somewhere! ;-) We had this discussion just recently. The error is the

Re: M-Tx/PMX/MusiXTeX problem

2000-03-11 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Silas S. Brown wrote: Hi, I'm writing a program that outputs M-Tx files and I'm trying to test it, but I can't figure out what's wrong with the following. Can anyone help? The file runs through M-Tx OK, but when I run the result through PMX, PMX enters an infinite

RE: Meter change at line break

2000-03-07 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Simons, Don wrote: Rainer adS wrote I use Alto, soprano, ... clefs. Today these are replaced by the treble ("G") clef notated an octave higher then the music sounds. Is there any way to print music that was entered for those obsolete clefs with the modern one?

Re: Meter change at line break

2000-03-07 Thread Christof Biebricher
change the octava numbers. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha , i.e., it is NOT possible(?). Just take the BWV146 example I had shown in the previous email. change the clef line from bnas to bttt and the tenor beginning from g44 to g45, and rerun pmx. That is all, try yourself! Christof -- Prof. Dr. Christof

Re: Meter change at line break

2000-03-06 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Rainer aus dem Spring wrote: yes, this seems to be common practice. In my eyes it looks UGLY, though. I'll ask a professional music type setter. That has nothing to do with UGLY or beautiful. It is obvious that a quick reader will not look again at the accidents, clefs etc.

Re: liftpause

2000-02-23 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, nitadori wrote: I still have some questions about PMX and MusiXTeX. When I typeset a piece for keyboard which has 2/4 meter, I need to raise \PAuse (How do you call this rest symbol in English? Two whole rest?). I think the latin expression minima is used in most

Re: PMX transposition.

2000-02-22 Thread Christof Biebricher
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, HowardGilbert wrote: Hi, I recently wrote a piece in the key of D. Yesterday I attempted to transpose it to the key of F, using:- Ar K+2-1 All instances of fn ( F natural ) came out as A natural, they should be Ab. All instances of cn ( C natural ) came out