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: Cautionary accidentals (was: \csh, \cfl, \cna in M-Tx/PMX)

2000-08-31 Thread Dirk Laurie
[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

6-lined staves?

2000-08-31 Thread M. Chapman
I'm a relatively new LaTeX user and was excited to find out about TeX's music notating capabilities. I've read some of the documentation supplied with MusicTeX, but before I go any further learning a given package, I'd like to ask you experienced folk a question or two. My main interest in

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: Cautionary accidentals (was: \csh, \cfl, \cna in M-Tx/PMX)

2000-08-31 Thread Christian Mondrup
Dirk Laurie wrote: [The contribution below is a little off-topic and may be ignored if you are not in the mood for chatting.] What does get my goat are scores containing cautionary accidentals that are not marked as such. We are at present rehearsing Messiah from the Novello edition

Re: 6-lined staves?

2000-08-31 Thread Christian Mondrup
"M. Chapman" wrote: I'm a relatively new LaTeX user and was excited to find out about TeX's music notating capabilities. I've read some of the documentation supplied with MusicTeX, but before I go any further learning a given package, I'd like to ask you experienced folk a question or two.

Re: 6-lined staves?

2000-08-31 Thread Bob Tennent
3) If not, what tricks could be used to create the six-lined staff, or might I be better off purchasing a tablature software? Six-lined staffs are easy in musixtex using \setlines but, according to the manual, tablature macros are not yet ready for use. (The manual also says "real guitar

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

2000-08-31 Thread Christian Mondrup
"Simons, Don" wrote: "\\def\cautna{\let\bignat\bigna\def\bigna##1{\cna{##1}\let\bigna\bignat}}\" Even if Christof Biebricher earlier today condemned cautionary accidentals as 'bad habit' your nice little macro (including its counterparts for sharps and flats) have come in just in time for

bar-less music in M-Tx (and thnx for \cautna)

2000-08-31 Thread Alexander V. Voinov
Hi All, I'm typing bar-less music in M-Tx (i.e. the concept of meter is usually not applicable). With the current setup of the support for this in M-Tx, if I choose bar-less meter, I have no longer a way to set a bar in any place. I can however set 'decorative' bars (e.g. double bar) anywhere I