PS versus PDF

2001-02-08 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:25:34 +0100 (MET) From: Werner Icking [EMAIL PROTECTED] On ... And Acrobat need not to be downloaded? It's of similar size for download and bigger if installed and slower if run - at least on my system, where I have complete Acrobat and not only the Reader. ... I

Re: PDF from musixtex

2001-02-05 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:25:27 +0100 (MET) From: Bernhard Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] In my configuration ghostscript produces pretty nice pdf-output (from ps-files) the shell script - [...] gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$1.pdf -dNOPAUSE $1.ps quit.ps # end of make-pdf -

Re: PDF from musixtex

2001-02-05 Thread Werner Icking
From: Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05 Feb 2001 07:58:56 -0500 "Robin" == Robin Fairbairns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: of course, you _can_ print it, often quite satisfactorily. but with bitmapped fonts you might just as well have stuck with the original postscript -- you gain

Re: PDF from musixtex

2001-02-05 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:56:21 +0100 From: Christian Mondrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] ghostview (gv) displays pdf files thus produced with the same (quite acceptable) screen rendering quality as dvipdfm produced files. But that is not the case with Acrobat Reader used by hosts of web users.

Re: Is MusiXTeX usable on Apples?

2001-01-29 Thread Werner Icking
From: H Boothroyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:57:13 + (GMT) I would be grateful for brief comment on whether MusiXTeX, or some variant of it, can be used or adapted for use with OzTeX under Mac OS9. MusiXTeX, PMX and M-Tx are available for Mac, too:

Re: Subject: MusiXTeX version T.101

2001-01-18 Thread Werner Icking
. Changes: - T.101 repeat/volta handling enhanced by Don Simons and Werner Icking The layout of voltas was damaged some versions ago. Trying to repair this we detected that it never really worked ok in all cases. Now we hope that it works well in all the many, many cases. As a sideeffect

Re: Subject: MusiXTeX version T.101

2001-01-18 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:55:32 -0800 From: "Alexander V. Voinov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can one now specify voltas in a meterless score? Voltas and meter are completely independent. Voltas are connected to start or end of a bar. But - as my example volta.tex shows - there is no need for a bar

Re: musixtex - midi?

2001-01-15 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Sander, Martin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:31:35 +0100 I am wondering whether there is a possibility do export a musixtex-score to midi. I have skimmed through my database of postings but cannot find anything in this direction? The newest PMX versions (maybe only

Re: scor2prt -problem now with the mtx/pmx files

2001-01-10 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Michael Koenig" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:22:07 +0100 here is the mtx-file from which I created a pmx-file.[...] I've also attached the pmx-file just in case. When I run scor2prt (On Win98, scor2prt for PMX Version 2.0, 18 April 99) This is an out-dated version.

Re: scor2prt -problem now with the mtx/pmx files

2001-01-10 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Michael Koenig" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:22:07 +0100 here is the mtx-file from which I created a pmx-file.[...] I've also attached the pmx-file just in case. When I run scor2prt (On Win98, scor2prt for PMX Version 2.0, 18 April 99) [...] Your version is a little

Re: too much space between systems

2001-01-09 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Michael Koenig" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:49:04 +0100 I have set a 8-system-piece. It has 3 pages with 3/3/2 systems. How did you typeset the piece? PMX? MusiXTeX? Now, on the pages 1 and 2 the vertical space between the systems is much too large for my taste. On

[Admin] Re: OT: A virus

2001-01-09 Thread Werner Icking
From: "David Gonz+AOE-lez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:58:36 -0400 Hello, I've received more than once a file with subject: +ACI-Snowhite and the seven dwarfs, the Real story+ACEAIg- Its, a virus, maybe it's because someone in the list has it and is being sent to the adresses

New patch-version for M-Tx 0.52 concerning sol-fa translation

2000-12-19 Thread Werner Icking
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:

Re: pmx problem

2000-12-14 Thread Werner Icking
From: Guido Milanese [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:33:17 +0100 [...] In fact the preamble dose not say \input musixlyr as in my old Dos-compiled files. I added this line by hand in the tex file, but the result was a file correctly compiled but with no text. It would be

Re: Running PMX on a network drive

2000-12-04 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 19:05:13 -0800 From: "Alexander V. Voinov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I have run pmx on a source which occurred on a network drive, and just what I got: forrtl: The mounted file system does not support extended attributes. I copied xyz.pmx to h:\ which is a network

Re: PMX - staccato rests

2000-11-29 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:32:11 + (GMT) From: Howard Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Very often I find I want to write (accompanying) parts with staccato notes alternating with rests. Is there a way to do something like:- a o.: r a r | a r a r | a r a o: r / without getting staccatos

Re: Movement breaks in PMX

2000-11-27 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 19:39:25 +1030 (CST) From: David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\\settrebleclefsymbol{2}\treblelowoct\ \\\grouptop14\groupbottom11\ L2Mcn42345btttr- [...] I'm using a treble clef with an 8 under it (whatever the technical term is) for the tenor part.

Re: Metronomic specifications

2000-11-20 Thread Werner Icking
When I was trying to specify appropriate metronomic specifications for my edition of Bach's Suites for Cello solo, I measured some recordings, e.g. by Schiff, Yo-Yo Ma, Maisky and others. I observed deviations from factor 1.3 up to factor 2.2 for a single movement. This is more than 2! And if a

Re: GMX-question about triplets

2000-11-20 Thread Werner Icking
From: "M. Lazanowski" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:45:42 +0100 is it possible to code something like With MusiXTeX everything is possible :-) With PMX and MusiXTeX's help everything is possible :-) 3 _ |_|_|_| | |_| | | | | | | | | | x x x x , which should

Re: Metronomic specifications

2000-11-15 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:54:48 + From: Miguel Filgueiras [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have read somewhere that the metronomic indications by Schumann have also caused controversy. Does anyone know the details? Searching "metronom schumann" with http://google.com resulted in

Re: majordomo

2000-11-13 Thread Werner Icking
From: Arjen Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:38:28 +0100 I received my own question 7 times from the list. Is there something wring with my mail agent (M$ Outlook) or with the list agent at gmd.de? There are email addresses on the list which cannot be reached either

RE: maximal beam length

2000-10-31 Thread Werner Icking
From: HEINECKE Johannes FTRD/DMI/LAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:35:11 +0200 Don wrote: By giving the user this override capability, I obligated myself to explain the whole mess in the manual. [...] So I could use this messy option :-) how do I activate it? It's

Re: A better way for 3 vs 2, or 4 vs 6 etc. ?

2000-10-31 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:02:25 -0300 (ADT) From: Pantelis Andreou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello everyone, There has to be a better way to write the following code with musixtex, using a triolet indication and a bracket. \startpiece \Notes\sk\uptext{\kern .6in \raise -.7in \hbox{4}}% Instead

Re: pmx setup

2000-10-31 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:48:27 -0400 (AST) From: Pantelis Andreou [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I try to execute the tex file there is a referrence to musixmad.tex which I can't find anywhere.  musixmad.tex is part of standard MusiXTeX ... IIRC since it's very beginning. So it should be there

RE: lost endbar with new movement

2000-10-16 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Simons, Don" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:09:15 -0700 This looks pretty deep, and I don't have a quick solution. It's either a problem with MusiXTeX, or (more likely) with something PMX does at the movement break involving the macros \newnoi or \newmovement (in

Re: \csh in MTx

2000-10-12 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:12:10 +0200 From: Christian Mondrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] Werner Icking wrote: http://www.gmd.de/Mail/mutex-archive/3357.html I had a few problems with this solution and ended up with another one provided during that discussion thread by Don Simons

Re: *.ex files in LaTeX

2000-09-27 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Petr Felzmann" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:53:41 +0200 [... from the log-file ...] Underfull \hbox (badness 1) in paragraph at lines 23--31 [][] [][][][][] \hbox(94.59998+0.0)x739.77165, glue set 724.28833 [] \inline=

RPMS for Linux: musixtex-T99, pmx-2.27

2000-09-25 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:24:29 +0200 From: Reinhard Katzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear list members, If you are astonished about my previous mail because you didn't see the original, that's no wonder, because it didn't make it to the list, because Reinhard Katzmann posted it using an email

Re: RPMS for Linux: musixtex-T99, pmx-2.27

2000-09-25 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:24:29 +0200 From: Reinhard Katzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] I uploaded new RPMS (Binaries and Sources) for Linux and all other Systems supporting the RPM package format. The binaries are for Pentium Class (i586 and higher) Systems (currently at

Re: tablature and PMX

2000-09-20 Thread Werner Icking
From: "M. Chapman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:22:17 +0200 This message is long. [...] To make a long story short: PMX's blank rests solve the problem as I discussed it with Mike. Instead of MusiXTeX and tabdef.tex \notesp\tab40\ql d\en

Re: tablature and PMX

2000-09-20 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:17:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: Werner Icking [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sorry about a two typos in my previous mail. Instead of "\tabsav{##1}{##2}" please read "\tabsav{#1}{#2}": With following redefinition: \\let\tabsav\tab\ \\def\tab#1#2

Re: musixflx and the last incomplete system

2000-08-31 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:21:29 -0700 From: "Alexander V. Voinov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Is there a manual on musixflx, and are there command line options for it at all? Jein - that's German slang for yes and no. There is no manual on musixflx but the command line options to make musixflx

Re: 6-lined staves?

2000-08-31 Thread Werner Icking
Hello Mike, did you look up the mailing list's archive for tabulature? You find it at http://www.gmd.de/Mail/mutex-archive/ Did you see that there is something about tabulature on http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/ under MusiXTeX add-ons? MuTeX was the first package for typesetting music with TeX

Re: \csh, \cfl, \cna in M-Tx/PMX

2000-08-30 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:12:51 -0700 From: "Alexander V. Voinov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've come across a real example, which contains an accidental in parenthesis (don't know [the English for] its musical name). I use M-Tx, cautionary accidental which is great for the type of music (vocal)

Re: triolet

2000-06-28 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Michael König" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:12:10 +0200 I need triolets in my piece written in mtx, but in can make it. PMX-syntax for a quarter note divided into three is: c4x3 c c More details on n-tuplets can be found in the PMX documentation and in the PMX

Re: 2 rests

2000-06-27 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Michael König" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:41:00 +0200 Now I have another question. I have the following f8 f r f f // a8+ f r c+ za a In my opinion the two rests (one over the other) look ugly. Is there any possibility to have only one rest? PMX offers

Re: A small flaw in MusiXTeX?

2000-06-26 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Simons, Don" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:37:21 -0700 Im editing some music for publication I just noticed what appears to be a small but persistent flaw in MusiXTeX. When a slur extends over a line break, its starting point (before the line break) seems to be

Re: PMX - \zcharnote

2000-06-26 Thread Werner Icking
eitergeben.}% \def\crtexten{Draft (\number\year\number\month\number\day\the\time) -- please don't distribute.}% \def\cryear{#1}\setfootline} \def\snailaddr{Werner Icking, D-53721 Siegburg, Farnweg 28} \def\mailaddr{[EMAIL PROTECTED]} \def\httpURL{http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/} \def\ftpURL{ftp://ftp.g

Re: Where to get preprocessor?

2000-06-20 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Henk Metselaar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:39:15 +0200 [...] I understand a preprocessor can assist me here. Currently I just want to write out sheet music for my instrument, trumpet. Which pp should I use, then and where can I get it?

\caesura (was: alignment of text in psalms)

2000-06-15 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Luc Saffre" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:31:46 +0200 [...] One "important" problem remains with this sheet: the \caesura is placed in the middle between the two breves. But I want it to be just in front of the second breve. Any idea? The MusiXTeX-definition of

Re: alignment of text in psalms

2000-06-15 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:27:23 +0200 From: Christian Mondrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Here is my suggestion for a typesetting of the hymn: Title: Litanei nach dem Hymnus Akathistos % Composer: m\"undl. \"uberliefert SAB: Voices V1,V2 V3; Choral; Clefs G F ... and when can I store it

Re: repeat query

2000-06-14 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Michael König" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:22:31 +0200 When I have a flats-change (1 flats to 0 flats) directly after a repeat sign, the horicontal space between the repeat-sign and the neutral-sign is to small. see the example: Any ideas? In this case PMX clobbers a

complex n-tuplets with PMX

2000-06-14 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 09:26:07 +0200 (MEST) From: Joerg Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Werner Icking wrote: [...] If something can be done with "MusiXTeX" or "PMX on top of MusiXTeX", then it should be done (imho) with PMX, because it's real

Re: problems with PMX

2000-06-07 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:32:38 +0200 (MEST) From: Joerg Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are more systems than bars. [...] But more surprising: If I delete one of the (absolute identical) measures all works: [...] Is it my error? Yes and no. PMX does not like input lines longer that 128

Re: vertikally streched space

2000-06-06 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Michael König" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 16:43:47 +0200 when I use pmx or mtx and have more the x systems, the space between the systems will be streched vertically. I know this is a feature and not abug, but I don't like this behaviour and think it is very annoying.

Re: Margins

2000-05-25 Thread Werner Icking
From: "David González" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:33:50 -0300 How can I define margins? for example, I wan't 1.7 cm on the right, left, upper and lower margins. How can I get that? e.g. for A4-size paper (210mm x 297mm): \hsize 210mm\advance\hsize -34mm\hoffset

Re: Margins

2000-05-25 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 12:18:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: Werner Icking [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] If you want to have a standard footline omit "\nopagenumbers" and add "\advance\vsize 24pt" behind the definition of the page. ^^^ "\advance\vsize -24pt&qu

Re: problems with changecontext

2000-05-10 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 14:05:25 +0200 (MEST) From: Bernhard Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Actually, this is not a problem of \changecontext but a problem of extra space in your MusiXTeX file at the line ends. Line end characters are translated into space characters by TeX. This may add some

Re: A beginner's question re triplets

2000-05-02 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Jim Youngman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 22:19:01 +1000 I am new to MusiXTeX and have written code with the intention of producing two triplets of quavers. In the second triplet, the beam is falling short of the final note. Can someone tell me what is wrong with the

Re: Possible bug in PMX transposition

2000-04-27 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Silas S. Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:14:45 +0100 (BST) [...] Yes, this is the problem, sorry. However, the PMX documentation is slightly scant on the meaning of "relative accidental" - does it mean that if I wanted a B natural in a flat key I would have to say

Re: PMX 2.2 - MIDI

2000-04-27 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:40:11 + From: HowardGilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have a (partial) pickup bar which should not be repeated, make it to a real first bar if you want to produce MIDI. Here is an untested shortened example with 3/8th pickup with meter 4/4 1 1 3 8 4 4 0 0 ...

Re: Large print music

2000-04-26 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:03:34 +0200 From: Christian Mondrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Silas S. Brown" wrote: Does anyone know how to make PMX print in the 24-point or 28.8-point size (MusiXTeX's \largemusicsize and \Largemusicsize)? Add \\Largemusicsize\ in front of the first input block:

Re: Large print music

2000-04-26 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Silas S. Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:50:45 +0100 (BST) Werner Icking writes: w132m h175m \\Largemusicsize\hsize 190mm\vsize 251mm\ This works nicely for parts. It goes slightly wrong with scores though - when I tried it on a 3-part sc

Re: Question about PMX

2000-04-13 Thread Werner Icking
From: "David González" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:31:11 -0600 How can I change the position of the \upbow\ symbol when I use it in front of a note in PMX, It comes at a wrong vertical position. It's only a name for the symbol like ordinary text. Use it with

RE: pmx features

2000-04-10 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:09:47 +0200 (MEST) From: Bernhard Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Ok, I think, my question was too short. What I would need is a change of spacing just within a few bars which do not even fill a line. So "compressing" just by changing the number of bars within that

Re: musixflx crash

2000-04-03 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 09:23:52 +0200 (MEST) From: Bernhard Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] musixflxing some music I get the following on the screen musixflex 0.83/T.63dt+jh.2 ... decoding command line ... open mv.mx1 for input ... testing versionnumber ... open mv.mx2 for output ...

Re: No lines

2000-03-28 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:52:13 + From: HowardGilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I now find that dvi output from PMX/Musixtex is totally devoid of lines. All noteheads, clefs and text are there but no stave lines no barlines and no stems on notes. I think the problem lies in teTeX rather

Re: \rightrepeat before \Endpiece

2000-03-27 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:35:49 -0600 From: "Eric Petersen [Aero]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Michael Hierweck wrote: \rightrepeat\Endpiece Try \endpiece (lowercase doesn't give the heavy final double bar). That's not sufficient. \rightrepeat generates a rightrepeat as bar

Re: Chord names above staff

2000-03-27 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 12:33:14 +0100 From: Christian Mondrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does MusiXTeX provide a means of writing chord names above the bars in the style of Jazz "Lead Sheets," as in the Real Book etc. if by "lead sheet" is meant tablature style chord

Re: pmx ntuplet (small) problem

2000-03-27 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Andre Van Ryckeghem" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:40:29 +0200 I need help for making a xtuplet with 12 notes. There are no problems when using the normal notesize (first mesure). I like that solution most. 1. i can not move the number 12 to the right more than 1

Re: Strange DVI output

2000-03-27 Thread Werner Icking
From: "David González" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 01:17:40 -0600 Can someone tell me why I get this (DVI files comes with the mail) pmxab didn't told me anything, but Texing it I got some error messages. Please send the PMX-file. Please don't send DVI-files to the list unless

Re: Musical symbols in text

2000-03-22 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Silas S. Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:30:25 + (GMT) 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,

Re: Transposed Instruments ?

2000-03-15 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:27:26 -0600 From: "Eric Petersen [Aero]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Werner Icking wrote: It would be interesting to convince PMX to do that using inline-TeX :-) And what is wrong with \\setsign1{2}\ in the first music paragr

what does \changecontext do? (was: Answer Page 48)

2000-03-15 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:01:43 + From: Nigel Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, to answer my question Page 48 Next question - what does \changecontext do ? 42? I'm sure the answer is in musixdoc.dvi, too. After defining a new context (e.g. by setting new signatures, clefs,

Re: pmx h-command

2000-03-09 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Andre Van Ryckeghem" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:32:35 +0100 I know that something like "Tt+n" and "h+n" worked for me in some PMX-sources but when I tried to make an example for you, I failed. Imho may "Tt+n" be used to add some space (n internote) between the end of the

PMX test-versions, pre-releases

2000-03-08 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 23:27:07 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rainer aus dem Spring) [...] I have lost the link to the pmx-to-MIDI program. Anybody got it? The latest "official" beta-test release can be found at http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/ look for PMX and "test-version". There

Re: Musical EXamples

2000-03-01 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 14:58:30 + From: Nigel Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I would like to use Musixtex to create small examples, a couple of bars long or possibly more.[...] My objective is to use TeX to generate a DVI and then process it through Dvips to Postscript and

Re: Note names. (was: re: liftpause)

2000-02-28 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:42:31 +0100 (CET) From: Christof Biebricher [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] 1/128 is certainly not common, but if a guru finds a way to write them, let me know. I had already an occasion where I had to cheat because I could not set it. They are part of musixbm.tex:

Re: Unexpected behaviour from PMX/MusiXLyr

2000-02-28 Thread Werner Icking
From: Dirk Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:53:04 +0200 (SAST) Consider the following PMX input file: As long as the file does not start with "---" there's nothing to consider :-( \let\:=\relax\input musixtex\:\sepbarrules\input pmx \input musixlyr\:\enableauxlyrics

Re: liftpause

2000-02-24 Thread Werner Icking
From: "nitadori" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:45:44 +0900 What I want to raise or lower is \PAuse, not \pausepp nor \pause. The musix-fonts do not contain the characters neccessary to lift a \PAuse. The following may help although it's a misuse of musixchar 26, which is an

Re: liftpause

2000-02-23 Thread Werner Icking
From: "nitadori" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:46:38 +0900 [...] "r9+1" in PMX, the output was "\liftpausepp{1}". So I tried to raise it like this. \\def\liftpausepp#1{\raise#1\Interligne\PAuse}\ But when you put this rest symbol above or below the staff, there is a need for

MusiXTeX transposition (Re: PMX transposition.)

2000-02-22 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:46:16 -0600 From: "Eric Petersen [Aero]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a slight misunderstanding: relative accidentals are relative to the scale in the untransposed music. (That may not make much sense. [...] O, no! Imho it's one of the most powerful logics in MusiXTeX

Re: [Fwd: ]

2000-02-21 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:56:58 +0100 From: taupin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can somebody give an answer for PMX Diego Gonzalez wrote: Mr Taupin: I wan't to know what files I need to use PMX and MusixTeX on a Win98 system, and what I have to do to run PMX, Where I can

Re: Midi - PMX/TeX

2000-02-21 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 14:20:02 -0500 From: Chris De Angelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah, I knew that Rosegarden does this, but that's just the thing - I don't want to have to edit the results. (I'm lazy!) I want it all just to work in some kind of batch conversion process, like I was

Re: rotatedown

2000-02-16 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:59:09 +0100 From: bastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] MusiXTeX and PSTricks are good friends ! PMX and PSTricks, too :-) PS: and it works! I'm already figuring out how to use it with PMX :-) 1 1 4 4 0 6 1 1 1 3 20 0 t ./ \\input pstricks % requires pstricks.con,

RE: Canons from Musical Offering

2000-02-14 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Simons, Don" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 09:39:54 -0800 Thanks for the provocative post. The information in the link is very interesting. And I did not realize MusiXTeX had a French violin clef. [...] (4) Even if we could figure out how to insert the right spacings

Re: no bars (summary)

2000-02-09 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 23:36:56 +0100 From: Guido Milanese [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] (2) for complicated music (in my case, one of the versions of the hispanic "Sibyl chant") I did as follows: [...] -- edited directly the TeX file, commenting all the "xbar" statements and the "tempo" at the

Re: Problem with musixflex

2000-02-08 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 10:20:33 + From: Miguel Filgueiras [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have the following problem with musixflex: when processing a small example consisting of 3 similar lines it gives an error that does not appear when processing only the first line. [...] musixflex

RE: no bars?

2000-02-07 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Simons, Don" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 15:09:51 -0800 [...] In addition or perhaps as an alternative you might replace all \xbar commands by \zbar (\\let\xbar\zbar\let\alaligne\zalaligne\); I'm not sure what that would do to horizontal spacing. [...] In rare cases

Re: New in PMX: MIDI output

2000-02-02 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 20:52:55 +0100 From: Christian Mondrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suggest yet another feature: The basar is open? :-) when a score contains octaved (up or down) staves the MIDI data generation doesn't yet reflect that. But it would be really nice if it did ! If you don't

Re: pmx puzzler

2000-01-24 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:14:06 + From: David Bobroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] %%%PMX FILE%%% % Canzon V (1615) 7 7 4 4 4 4 0 0 4 12 16 .1 Trumpet 7 [...] The first line of the PMX file is already dangerous, if you want to use scor2prt with this PMX-file. If scor2prt detects "%%" at

[Administrivia] Bouncing email adresses

2000-01-11 Thread Werner Icking
Dear Subscribers, since we use the new mail system and the new majordomo version we detected that in the past a lot of bounce messages didn't reach me as mutex-owner. So there now is a long list of subscribers which I will remove after some days because mails to their email addresses bounce.

Re: [Fwd: New version T.98 of MusiXTeX available]

2000-01-10 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:35:59 +0100 (MET) From: Stefano Taschini [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ___ I 3 || | | I || | | I 8 e. e e e I e. e e e I Anyway if I'm not mistaken, there are 6/8 in a bar that is declared as

[Administrivia]

1999-12-16 Thread Werner Icking
Dear List members, GMD, the sponsor of this list, will change it's mailing facilities within the next days, maybe in the next hours. We hope that this will go without any trouble for this list. Nevertheless it's possible that there will be some problems. I'm sure that we will notice most

Re: Guitar-specific notation

1999-12-13 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 10:45:25 +0100 From: Christian Mondrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the sake of completeness I feel tempted to add to the replies of Jerome Colburn and Andre Van Ryckeghem that [...] And for the same reason I feel tempted to tell that searching the archive of this mailing

RE: Volta + changing number of staffs

1999-12-13 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Simons, Don" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:52:26 -0800 Andre wrote Now i have to put an open volta on the first mesure of the section with 3 staffs. I tried everything in pmx (i think) and in musixtex, but i do not get it done. You're in luck: I had to do this

Re: Large scores with PMX

1999-11-30 Thread Werner Icking
From: Bas Luttik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:28:23 +0100 I would like to typeset a Big Band arrangement using PMX. It is a large score with 14 staves and the PMX-manual says that the number of staves is limited to 12, but that this is under user control. Moreover I have a

Re: Beams

1999-11-29 Thread Werner Icking
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 16:54:33 +0100 Would somebody please be kind enough to give me an example of the syntax of the \Ibu semi-automatic beam macros? Suppose I wanted to beam together four quavers of pitches 'ab^cd, or a dotted quaver ^'c and semiquaver 'd, using

Re: Can anyone help a complete novice with MusiXTeX installation?

1999-11-23 Thread Werner Icking
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:15:03 +0100 [... exampe files ...] Running TeX on the files produces the .mx1 and .dvi files all right, running musixflx on .mx1 yields .mx2, but the third pass elicits a stream of "undefined control sequence l.1 \lineset" messages and no

Re: Score with different meter

1999-09-23 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:54:43 +0200 From: Nicolas ASPERT [EMAIL PROTECTED] I took a quick look at your solutions, and it looks like both are working. However, I find that the one proposed by Mthimkhulu Molekwa (no spelling mistakes ? :-) is easier to use than the one proposed by Werner,

Re: Score with different meter

1999-09-21 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:32:00 +0200 From: Nicolas ASPERT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Werner Icking wrote: Again, I do not understand what you mean with "bars aligned". Normally a barline is typeset for all voices of a score. Do you want to have seperate bar lines in seper

Re: Score with different meter

1999-09-16 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:41:50 +0200 From: Nicolas ASPERT [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is the following : I have 2 instruments but the meter for the first one should be 2/4, and the meter for the 2nd one should be 3/4. (there will also be a third playing 6/8...). [...] I have no idea

Re: 4/2-pause

1999-09-15 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:40:38 +0200 From: Christian Mondrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] %%\let\pause\pauseSAV Imho you mean %%\let\pauseSAV\pause which enables you to revoke the redefinition of \pause if neccessary at a later point. %%\let\pause\PAuse When I try to use PMX's code to generate

RE: First score finished: could I have done better?

1999-09-14 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Simons, Don" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:59:13 -0700 Alexander Jolk [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote 1. How do I get a \caesura right at the end of a bar? Kludging around with `\atnextbar' works, but isn't beautiful. (As in a9- | \atnextbar{\caesura}\ d0.d ...) I

Re: Bug in PMX

1999-09-09 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 09:11:13 +0200 From: Thorsten Ehm [EMAIL PROTECTED] After a pause in using PMX, yesterday I coded a score and compiled it PMX was quite successful, but in the first pass of running MusiXTeX there occured the following error: ! Missing number, treated as zero. [...]

Re: Movement titles

1999-09-08 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:48:43 +0100 From: Daniel Barna [EMAIL PROTECTED] is it possible (yes, it is) to give titles to movements in musixtex? (say centered above the first line of the movement, or left/right adjusted) I looked at many examples, but I didn't find such a solution. MusiXTeX

Re: processing several TeX files at once

1999-08-05 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 22:38:07 +0200 From: Christian Mondrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had similar problems with my one of my own scores [...] ... written with M-Tx and PMX. \let\interstaffSAV\interstaff here's the place to save all those items, which may be modified by one of the

Changing number of voices within M-Tx/PMX (was: Since there is still someone...)

1999-07-26 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:09:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: Maurizio Codogno [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I was wondering if it is possible in M-Tx to switch system. As far as I know M-Tx does not support that. Let me explain: there is a piece with three different sections. The first section is for

Re: Continuo realizations in MusiXTeX

1999-05-05 Thread Werner Icking
From: "Simons, Don" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 18:47:36 -0700 [...] 2. If I settle for the straight bracket with \songtop...\songbottom, the top of the bracket does not align correctly when the upper staff is reduced in size. It appears that the bottom of bracket is OK but

Re: pmx: Partial bar starting a movement.

1999-04-29 Thread Werner Icking
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 01:36:12 +0100 (GMT) From: Howard Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Is there a way in pmx to have an incomplete bar 0 as is possible at the start of a score? That is, after doing "Lline numberM" how can one, for example, start the new movement with a bar containing only

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