Luigi Cataldi skryf:
4) Whatever will be the choise, I propose to change the name of the archive
in 'Werner Icking Archive'.
I support this suggestion with all my heart, but want the word "music"
in it. The Werner Icking Music Archive.
Dirk
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 program. Not only can't I find any such
thing,
Werner Icking skryf:
Dear M-Tx users,
Szabo Zsolt developed a patch for M-Tx 0.52 which catches a bug that
the sol-fa translation of M-Tx was wrong. The patch is "approved" by
Dirk Laurie. Christian Mondrup helped to compile the DOS-Exe.
Thanks to all!
See: http://www.g
Petr Felzmann skryf:
how can put the slurs between chordal notes? In the following MTx-source
I need 3 slurs, not only one:
There is no neat M-Tx construct for this, but you can use PMX slurs
directly. A very simple example occurs in Appendix C.5 of the M-Tx
User's Guide.
Dirk
Petr Felzmann skryf:
Program tex2ex generate this line at the end of the *.ex-file:
...
\pnotes{2.83}\qp\en%
\Endpiece
\vskip1.6\Interligne\eject\endmuflex
If I comment the last line:
%\vskip1.6\Interligne\eject\endmuflex
then everything is O.K.!!! Why???
But this line isn't
Alexander V. Voinov skryf:
Is it possible to draw this? Some our singers just got used to, it's
more visual that two or more bars spanning only their respective staves.
M-Tx User's Manual, Index says:
bar lines
solid, 18
On page 18, it says:
\stdbarrules This will cause bar
[The contribution below is a little off-topic and may be ignored
if you are not in the mood for chatting.]
Simons, Don skryf:
On the other hand, cautionary accidentals never affect whether an accidental
should or should not be played. They are simply warnings to the player to
be careful
Barry Gold skryf:
The input passes through prepmx without problems, but I'm getting the
following error message from PMX:
prepmx isn't very strict on checking input syntax. It assumes that
whenever you do something it does not know, presumably it is some
PMX feature for which you take the
Barry Gold skryf:
Can I put multiple lines of uptext on a single voice?
I'm using M-Tx.
I want to put guitar chords (Am, C, etc.) above the staff, then put
annotations like tempi and "chorus" above those. So the output looks
something like:
slow waltz
Em
Michael König skryf:
Hello,
the following M-Tx -code
( c4d [ b1 af ] )
looks very ugly to me. Is ther a possibility to force the stem of the b and
a to go down?
M-Tx User's Manual, p16, near the middle. (I refer you there instead
of directly answering the question because that part of
Mthimkhulu Molekwa skryf:
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 with a Marimba set?
The
Silvio Weiland skryf:
Hi mutex-world,
Could somebody explain the Preamble command "Space", because I don't
know how the settings for spacing exactly work. (The matter is
me...Sorry?) Also with a lot of trial and errors I cann't catch the
mechanism. Although with a little LUCK I got
Simons, Don skryf:
In the PMX command e.g. "K-3+1" the "-3" is the transposition interval and
the second number is the new key. And, just exactly like it says, you can't
transpose after the piece has started. If you want the new key to be G you
enter "K+0+1". Either Barry or M-Tx should
Vince Del Vecchio skryf:
I'm just learning how to use M-Tx and have come up with a couple of
things I haven't been able to figure out how to do.
I tried to ask a couple of days ago, but my message bounced. In the
meantime, I've figured out a couple of answers, and I've come up with
a
Why I get this: (in pmxab) "Bar 8forrtl: severe (27): too many records in
I/O statement, unit -5, file Internal Formatted Write" Here are the original
MTX file, the resulting PMX file, and the .PML file.
Title: Concerto in Amin (Sonata Nona)
Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti
Meter: C
=?iso-8859-1?Q?David_Gonz=E1lez?= skryf:
Please send the PMX-file. Please don't send DVI-files to the list
unless there is no other way finding/describing the error.
I have to send you the DVI, because the file is a sample that comes with PMX
(It's Roman's trio sonata) other files have
David Bobroff skryf:
I have been getting very strange
errors with this file. One of them claims that the last character of the
file is not '/,%' but a letter (the letter varies). I don't understand
this, at all.
I've also been getting this behaviour unpredicatably. My solution
is
Consider the following PMX input file:
\let\:=\relax\input musixtex\:\sepbarrules\input pmx
\input musixlyr\:\enableauxlyrics
---
1 1 4 2 4 2 0.0 0 1 1 20 0
0
./
% Paragraph 2 line 6 bar 1
\\\setlyrics{11}{Breathe in deep-ly now.}\
\\\assignlyrics1{11}\
\beginmel\ g04 s \endmel\ f2 s e2 /
I was trying to typeset a piece that starts with an upbeat and has two
verses and a little coda. The upbeat to the coda is not the same as
to the verse. It seemed logical to put a repeat sign at the end of
the verse, one beat before the end of the measure. Saves me a volta.
PMX doesn't like
Christian Mondrup skryf:
"Simons, Don" wrote:
A little RTFM'ing is definitely in order here.
I cannot speak for M-Tx,
uses pmx meter change syntax, but you must put the change in all staves.
The shortcut 3/4, meaning the same as m3434 or m3/4/3/4, is also
available. Meter
Guido Milanese skryf:
Many thanks to all the kind souls who answered my request about using
M-TX to produce pieces with no bars. I think I can summarise as follows:
(1) for simple hymns with no bars, follow what is said in the m-tx
manual. You must calculate the duration of each line,
Thomas Ruedas skryf:
But I assume that \begin{center} is in conflict
with MusiXTeX's assumption about TeX-paragraphs
Maybe, but I would find confusing, as both the center env and the parbox
are not inside the \startpiece...\endpiece stuff, but wrapping it. I
also had replaced \textwidth by
or putting something in M-Tx that will
translate to PMX movement breaks: these are only of the "maybe before
the end of this year" kind.
Dirk Laurie
I think that the MusiXTeX/PMX/M-Tx music typesetting has reached the
stage where there are some rather clearly identifiable Frequently
Asked Questions (e.g. "The notes are all squashed together on the
left..."). It would be nice if someone, not one of the developers
or the archive maintainer,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
this tiny m-tx excerpt shows a situation where 2 adjacent "chords"
should be slured. (m-tx V0.52)
There _is_ a nice slur for the bottom notes, but the top slur comes out
far too short...
Did I miss something "basic" or is there a special trick to code
SIMONS, DON wrote:
This is part of the reason I have made the source code available. If
you have access to a FORTRAN compiler (and I guess that's a pretty big
"if" tthese days!) you can change the dimension and recompile
yourself. Also, there might even be some machine-translated
allowed to overcome 24-line
restriction.
Bug fixes (too many to mention)
As you have no doubt noticed, this is not a major release. The main
purpose was to make M-Tx more compliant with the recent major release
of PMX. It is likely to be the last release of M-Tx with source code
that does not require a C++ compiler.
Happy music typesetting!
Dirk Laurie
Stanislav Kneifl claimed:
However, OpusTeX code is so similar to MusiXTeX, that simple replacement
proggie (sed script) could do the conversion between them, except some
features the MusiXTeX does not have.
I should be very interested in such a script, and also its
converse: MusiXTeX to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When starting a piece, how do I get a starting point more than one octave
away without offending PMX?
[...snip...]
...causes PMX to produce the following warning:
*WARNING*
ERROR in line 31, bar 1: Before version 1.2, +/- was ignored if
Eckart Begemann wrote:
Writing a piece in M-Tx I found that
the breves do not take any syllables:
Concerning the text they are obviously
handled as if they were pauses.
This maybe a problem of musixlyr,
I don't know, I have not checked it yet.
(lazy ... I know).
But anyway I think
Barry Gold wrote:
V8 ( f0 | Vx f2 ) r8 f8 o f4 of |]
The revised version looks fine using M-Tx 0.50a (as my previous post
suggests) but lacks the footnotes. To get them, change all instances
of "\endpiece" to "\Endpiece" earlier on.
Dirk
directly from the C code did not suffer from this bug.
4. The manual mistakenly mentioned \tinymusicsize as a possible music size.
Dirk Laurie
Barry Gold wrote:
I'm trying to do two things I've never tried before. One is to
produce a "downtext" line - using @v as described in section 4.2 of
the M-Tx guide. I commented it out below after discovering that it
wasn't producing any output.
At present there can be only one uptext
I've just uploaded mtx050.zip to ftp.gmd.de. If you can't find
it yet, be patient. -- Dirk Laurie
M-Tx is a music-from-text language designed to look as much as possible
like printed music. To give you an idea of what that means, here is some
typical input code (users of M-Tx 0.40 may skip
Christian Mondrup wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I encountered some troubles with the original PMX compiling with g77 and
naturally turned to
the C version.
Use f2c in stead of g77. You may want that if you are going to compile a
version of pmx exceeding the default 7 voices limit.
applied to the note to the left
of it when that note is on the right of a bunch of chordal notes.)
Hope this helps.
Dirk Laurie
This post will raise a pure MusiXTeX question and a PMX question.
Here is an invalid PMX input file:
--
1 1 4 4 0 6 0.0 0 1 1 20 0
6
./
rp-6 | g43 a4 b4 g4 | c0 //
c43 d4 e4 f4 | rp+6 | c0 /
Don Simons wrote:
Dirk Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET-MAIL wrote
[Christof] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
as known, pmx can handle only a limited number of voices.
Of all PMX restrictions, this is the easiest one to lift. You simply
replace all occurrences of nm=7
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
as known, pmx can handle only a limited number of voices.
Of all PMX restrictions, this is the easiest one to lift.
You simply replace all occurrences of nm=7 in the Fortran
source by nm=15 or whatever. For some values there may be
common block alignment
FRAPPE_Fran c,ois-Nicolas_108324 wrote:
At the bars 3-4, there is two decrescendos.
For flute 1, it begins on the second note of the bar 3 (do) and ends on =
the
second note of the bar 4 (re)
For flute 2, it begins on the fourth note of the bar 3 (re) and ends on =
the
fifth note of
taupin wrote:
Dirk Laurie wrote:
I find 10-point too small and 12-point too large, /rm too light
and /bf too dark, to have readable lyrics. I've therefore
made myself an include file (included below) that provides:
1. 11-point in /rm, /bf and /it. I have tentatively called
Christian Mondrup wrote:
UT: @+1 !\bf c~b~c
@22 r8 | ( {} g2d| f4d ) r4d |
MusiXTeX is quite comfortable with what I have put as uptext for the bass
part using a local only change to bold face. In the tenor part, however, I
- to illustrate my problem - want to utilize a
Rainer Dunker wrote:
ABSTRACT:
I've thought of and implemented a way to enter a polyphonic piece
voice by voice, i.e. all voices are entered and edited virtually
independently from each other. This does not use a preprocessor; it
is "raw" TeX code which is \input into the score
Christian Mondrup wrote:
% 3 - 4
(( d4d8 ) d b8d+ c1 b8 a | g2d r8 c8 |
L: {vers1s}
{{ ( d8d ef1 ) d8 } d d4b8 c | c8d bs1 c8 d en4 r4|
L: {vers1a}
(( b4b8 ) b ( b8d a1 ) g8 f | f8d d1 en8 f g4 r8 e+ |
L: {vers1t}
{{ ( b8d c1 } b8
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to use an alternate font for the lyrics.
Where is the best stage to alter it?
In M-Tx put e.g.
%% \\twelvebf\
as the first line of the first music paragraph.
Dirk
Marc F. Zimmermann wrote:
Okay, most simple things are more difficult than they appear.
I just wanted to make a little song but M-Tx gives me a lot of error-
messages I do not see in the source. Maybe you can help me.
Is it me or would it be useful to upate M-Tx? (Yes, I do use a ready-
Christopher Raphael wrote:
Please forgive the (probably) very naive question folks.
I am using musixtex for the first time in a latex paper I am writing
and I cannot get margins right.
I would like to have it centered in the
page with the same margins used elsewhere. Does anyone know
Guenter Buehrle wrote:
I already stepped to all the sources in
www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/scores
and I did not find any mtx-sources except the simple example coming with
mtx "Net soos ek is". So let me repeat:
Is there anybody who distributes his (more complicated) mtx-sources for
Barry Gold wrote:
I just tried setting a piece of music with repeat marks |: and :|.
In my printout the : marks are centered around the top line of the
staff (f above treble c in G clef). My memory of printed music is
that repeat marks should be around the middle line (g above middle c
in
Barry Gold wrote:
I thought this song was going to be a piece of cake. No triplets. No
forced beams or slurs. But then I got an error from somewhere deep in
the bowels of the MusiXTeX macros.
b4d a8 f4d a8 | g2d r8 d
L: {\it that\/} and {\it that\/}
Frank Stefani wrote:
) (/home/frank/.TeX/pmx.tex
PMX, a Preprocessor for MusiXTeX, v1.3 1 September 1997
) (/home/frank/.TeX/musixlyr.tex
MusiXLYRics 1.1 18 December 1997
) (/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/tex/generic/musixtex/musixtex.tex)
(/home/frank/.TeX/pmx.tex)
appreciate the fact that M-Tx users are helping each other,
and the two tiny pedantic corrections above does not detract from
the fact that I think Christian has given a very good answer.
-- Dirk Laurie
Christian Mondrup wrote:
2. I want to replace the pmx page numbering on the top of the page with
a numbering at the bottom of the page.
One way to get more control over layout is to put your TeX file
through the tex2ex script and then to input it into LaTeX. The
LaTeX file looks something
Frank Stefani wrote:
Greetings to all from the german alps :-)
I want to slur some notes which belong to a single lyrics
syllable as follows
|| ||
_ | _ | _ | _ |
(_)| (_)| (_)| (_)|
\__/ \___/
Christian Mondrup wrote:
A special problem arose, however, in the second paragraph of my
composition where the first syllable of the lyrics in each part begins
with {\o}.
If a line begins with
L: {\o}
that will be taken to indicate that the lyrics come from a lyrics
paragraph labelled
Dirk Laurie
etters d r m f s l t
instead of a b c d e f g. Some of these conflict with PMX
commands: in that case use e.g. "r instead of r to get a rest.
3. Multi-bar rests.
4. Sticky attributes on notes and rests.
D. Bug fixes (too many to mention)
Happy music typesetting!
Dirk Laurie
I'm not quoting the previous posts: the problem was that
the construction
[[ c ( d ] | d )
leaves melisma off even after the closing ]. This is a M-Tx 0.30
bug which will be fixed in 0.40 but in the meanwhile the workaround
[ c ( d ] | \nolyr\ d )
was suggested. ]
After I posted the
Julian Gilbey wrote:
--- convert.sed ---
/nm=7/nm=15/
I presume this is a typo and should read
s/nm=7/nm=15/
So much for cutting and pasting with a mouse -- I must have
missed the first character when marking the block.
Dirk
Anthony Fok wrote:
On a somewhat related note, I noticed the new feature in M-Tx 0.30:
[[, {{ and (( that are used to turn off melisma, but I couldn't figure out
how to turn it back on (!). :-)
It's supposed to last precisly to the end of that particular group,
i.e. [[ c d e f ] or ((
Anthony Fok wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 09:19:04PM +0200, Stefan Haller wrote:
M-Tx handles melismas automatically based on the beams and slurs; this
is great, but not flexible enough (unless I'm missing something) in
cases where you have to override this default handling (and I often
I have a piece with voltas. The first volta has a slurred note
that continues into both parts, so the \startmel has a matching
\endmel. The second part now has a note that theoretically
is inside a melisma, but musixlyrically does not have a \startmel.
I'm trying to persuade musixlyr to put
We're singing the Misa Criolla, and I was irritated by the fact that
only a full score was available for the choir -- in some places this
means one system per page. So I set about making a SATB score for the
choir only. The Gloria starts:
=== file gloria.pmx ===
2 2 3 4 3 4 0.0 0 1 2
Julian Gilbey wrote:
It appears that when ending an M-Tx piece with |], so that the PMX
file's first line in the last bar has an extra RD in it, the TeX file
produced no longer contains an \Endpiece command, so musixflx dies.
I've noticed this too. M-Tx 0.39 (see my post of May 26) works
Don Simons wrote:
Stefan Haller wrote
it is difficult to specify more complicated staff names in
PMX because of line length restrictions. For example, if I need a
staff name spanning two lines, such as
Cornetto o
Violino
, I would have to say something like
Joel Hunsberger
I have a dream... I am playing yet another something on my
electronic keyboard. This is being "recorded" as a midi file
on my PC...
...
I ask, "Why not have a tool that translates the MIDI directly to
M-Tex, because that's got to be easier in the first place...!)"
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