Re: [TeX-music] MusiXTeX with LaTeX without problems

2003-09-15 Thread Bernhard Lang
I ran into exactly that problem no room left for new dimen register... yesterday when I included a PMX generated tex file into a longer latex document. And I discovered that \inputting all the supplementary files automatically included by the PMX output already in the latex preamble solves the

Re: [TeX-music] PMX and brackets ?

2003-08-04 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Joerg Anders wrote: Besides, I notice that you use version 2.3 of PMX. I strongly recommend you to use the latest version (2.410) which contains a lot of ameliorations. Yes, but for Unix/Linux there is 2.3 the latest version). You can easily compile it yourself from

re [TeX-music] PMX score layout question

2003-08-02 Thread bernhard lang
Hi Joerg Obviously you provide PMX not the right number of clefs OR names of voices/instrument (one per line, which are before the clefs). This error is somehow easy to oversee since PMX wants to have exactly n lines for the names, even if these lines are empty. And the fact that PMX complains

Re: [TeX-music] cue notes, a defauts: translation needed.

2003-07-28 Thread Bernhard Lang
Does anyone know the right English term for these notes ? Or does the French term belong to the mostly Italian lingua franca of music ? German term is also welcome. A sub-partition, having some but not all voices, for example the continuo part, where you find also the singer's part in small

Re: [TeX-music] Most basic PMX file or template?

2003-07-16 Thread Bernhard Lang
Hi Martin Sending a short file with which you have problems may help us to find out what the problem is. regards Bernhard ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

[TeX-music] meter changes and PMX spacing

2003-07-01 Thread Bernhard Lang
Dear all Setting a piece from Monteverdi I've the problem that meter is changing several times within a few bars from common time (four half notes) to tempus perfectum diminutum (six whole notes) and back. The tempo relation is about such that on half note of the former corresponds to three whole

[TeX-music] Basso Continuo Source

2003-06-06 Thread Bernhard Lang
being interested to have a look on it, and I'm happy for all comments, suggestions, corrections etc. Anyhow and naturally, this holds also for the german part... regards Bernhard Bernhard Lang | Physical Chemistry Departement, Sciences II 21, Avenue du Denantou | University

[TeX-music] Re: was M-Tx on Windows: starting up problems

2003-03-07 Thread Bernhard Lang
Wow... Leave for a day and you miss a lot... I am glad to hear that Gert found the answer needed. I want to add that I frequently use a utility called FLIP to convert whole directories from Unix to MS-DOS line endings. There are many utilities named FLIP, so a search on Google will bring up

RE: [TeX-music] PMX and scor2prt problem

2003-02-21 Thread Bernhard Lang
Hi Don Thanks a lot for your help. The first is at line 516, where you had a type-3 TeX string followed on the same line by some PMX input. It's a no-no that unfortunately did not bother PMX, but really confused scor2prt. Type-3 TeX strings should never be followed by PMX input on the same

[TeX-music] PMX and scor2prt problem

2003-02-20 Thread Bernhard Lang
Hi all I've got a problem with a lengthy PMX source which looks to me like being a PMX problem due to the length of the file. Some attempts to considerably shorten the file failed. Breaking the sources into shorter pieces is unfortunately not a real solution: I was asked to make instrumental

[TeX-music] PMX and scor2prt problem

2003-02-20 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Andre Van Ryckeghem wrote: i cannot test because i do not have brumel-settings.mtx Ups, sorry. I've attached it to this mail. regards Bernhard settings.zip Description: Zip archive

[TeX-music] pmx/musixtex bug?

2003-01-17 Thread Bernhard Lang
hi all The following excerpt yields a [][][][][] [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] when PMXing it and the dot of the r9d in the second voice, second block, is missing. In fact, this rest causes the spacing problem. Has anyone an idea what is going on? Is this a PMX bug, Don? (PMX 2.401,

Re: [TeX-music] Incompatibity between MusiXTeX T110 and T111 / gracenote problem

2003-01-10 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Cornelius C. Noack wrote: Hello: Here is an entirely different problem that may (mor likely may not) have anything to do with the new versions: I find that when coding graces with more than note, PMX runs OK, but musixtex complains about undef'd \settiny and \resetsize

Re: [TeX-music] MusiXTeX and TeX register limitation [was: I wantyour tests]

2003-01-08 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Rainer Dunker wrote: On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:57:37PM +0100, taupin (wanadoo-lps) wrote: Is there somebody who observes difficulties or slowing down when \including musixadd? Otherwise it could IMO also be incorporated in musixtex. I'm really reluctant, once more,

Re: [TeX-music] MusiXTeX and TeX register limitation [was: I wantyour tests]

2003-01-08 Thread Bernhard Lang
It's a rather general property of musixlyr, based on the fact that the necessary lyrics analysis (i.e. the splitting into syllables) can be accomplished with TeX data structures only in squared-degree, not linear, execution time (related to the length of the lyrics input). Thus, n bytes of

Re: [TeX-music] Litetrature on music engraving

2002-12-11 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Christian Mondrup wrote: Could someone in this honoured, learned community recommend some suitable titles? Herbert Chaplik, Die Praxis des Notengraphikers is quite excellent. ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [TeX-music] Litetrature on music engraving

2002-12-11 Thread Bernhard Lang
I don't remember from where I've got this reference, and I havn't read it. But it might by worth considering it... Musiknotation : von der Syntax des Notenstichs zum EDV-gesteuerten Notensatz / Helene Wanske. - Mainz ; London ; New York ; Tokyo : Schott, 1988. - 457 S. : graph. Darst., Noten;

Re: [TeX-music] pmx: big and small accidentals

2002-11-26 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Don Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It has occurred to me from time to time that a default-override file might be useful. There are a few drawbacks, though. Now, the output from a given pmx file depends *only* on the binary, and that's a very

[TeX-music] x-tuplet problem in PMX

2002-11-15 Thread Bernhard Lang
the 'D' results in an error message, behind the 'D' it is ignored, at least there's no visible change. Am I missing something? Bernhard 1 1 2 2 0 6 0 0 1 1 16 0.0 t ./ a24x3 b cs d2x6Dn3 g f e d | ex6n3 f e d c b ax6Dn3 a+ g f e | / Bernhard Lang | Physical Chemistry

Re: [TeX-music] Questions about typesetting keyboard parts

2002-10-21 Thread Bernhard Lang
Fuzeau edition for example. Anyhow, if people are willing to publish things free, so much the better. Bernhard Bernhard Lang | Physical Chemistry Departement, Sciences II 21, Avenue du Denantou | University of Geneva; 30, Quai Ernest Ansermet CH-1006 Lausanne, Suisse | CH-1211

Re: [TeX-music] Automatic line-breaking in PMX

2002-10-21 Thread Bernhard Lang
of results. Bernhard Bernhard Lang | Physical Chemistry Departement, Sciences II 21, Avenue du Denantou | University of Geneva; 30, Quai Ernest Ansermet CH-1006 Lausanne, Suisse | CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland TEL/FAX: +41(0)21 601 3657 | TEL +41(0)22 702-6535, FAX -6518

Re: [TeX-music] TeX programming

2002-09-24 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Stefan Svensson wrote: I would like to simplify this with a macro that iterates over a string with all notes in the scale ({cd_efg'_ab}) and adds the corresponding numbers below, perhaps from a string like {12{\flt3}45{\flt6}{\flt7}}. This looks like beeing a job for

[TeX-music] pmx bug report

2002-09-23 Thread Bernhard Lang
Hi Don A message Program error in fnote, send source to Dr. Don missleaded me for a minute until i realised that i'd just forgotten to put a meter change. But maybe this tells you something else hidden behind the sceene. Here's the extract giving the same error message. --- 1 1 4 4 0 6 0 -1 0 7

[TeX-music] off-topic: help for a piano maker

2002-09-11 Thread Bernhard Lang
, but the second part of the email text below contains an english version. regards Bernhard Bernhard Lang | Physical Chemistry Departement, Sciences II 21, Avenue du Denantou | University of Geneva, 30, Quai Ernest Ansermet CH-1006 Lausanne, Suisse | CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

[TeX-music] Timing problem w/ forced beams PMX crash

2002-07-12 Thread Bernhard Lang
] Apparently the file is somehow damaged (I downloaded it a second time from the archive, same result). Nevertheless pmx2401.for looks fine, except line 20617 which g77 refuses to compile. A line break is missing there. After fixing that it gets compiled normally. regards Bernhard Bernhard Lang

Re: [TeX-music] Timing problem w/ forced beams PMX crash

2002-07-12 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Christof Biebricher wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Bernhard Lang wrote: Further observation: unzipping the just downloaded pmx2401.zip I get unzip -a pmx2401 Archive: pmx2401 End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file

RE: [TeX-music] Timing problem w/ forced beams PMX crash

2002-07-12 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Don Simons wrote: If you keep that number below 20 it should solve this problem. BTW, this restriction is listed in the Limits section of the manual. Sorry, I've overseen that. But I was already thinking, its due to something like that. In this case, you don't even need

Re: [TeX-music] special characters in PMX?

2002-07-01 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Diane Blaurock wrote: Me again. Honestly, I've been PMXing along for a while and getting by fine with just the handbook, but ... Blame it on Lully and French Baroque opera. Now I need to enter movement titles with French accents. The only workaround I've been able to

Re: [TeX-music] Postscript slurs, New PMX Beta (Version 2.358)-headspace error!

2002-06-03 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Stanislav Kneifl wrote: BTW, why is the screen of so importance? Do you know any musician playing from the computer screen? :-) Yes, me. But up to now only for private use. Especially when checking new PMXed scores I find it very useful to put my laptop on the harpsichord

Re: [TeX-music] Can't get extract to work with plain TeX.

2002-05-21 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Don Simons wrote: Can anyone see why the extract is screwing up the page layout (width, font, and indentation)? If I comment it out, the page is centered differently (properly) and the width is constant like it should be. Looking in musixtex.tex you'll find the following

Re: [TeX-music] (no subject)

2002-04-18 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Stefan Svensson wrote: * Printing revisions, copyright information, dates, etc at the bottom or top of each page. See the PMX source of Muffat's sonata for violin on the archive (macros adapted from Werner's edition of Bach's violin sonatas) regards Bernhard

Re: [TeX-music] Re: Muffat violin sonata on Werner Icking MusicArchive

2002-04-04 Thread Bernhard Lang
Thank's for your comments, Don and Christian And BTW that should clearly be a g# in bar 114, by comparison with the other 2 times the same thing happens). I checked the source: there is clearly no sharp at this point. But I agree with your opinion that this does not mean there soudn't be

[TeX-music] Re: Muffat violin sonata on Werner Icking Music Archive

2002-03-27 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Tony Kitchen wrote: I have download your edition of the Muffat violin sonata, prior to printing it I noticed (with some horror) that there a number of C flats in it. Eventually I realised that these should be C naturals. There are many instances. Hi Tony Thanks for

[TeX-music] Problem finding index for literal string

2002-03-12 Thread Bernhard Lang
hi pmxperts pmxing the attached pmx file I get === RUNNING PMX === This is PMX, Version 2.355, 26 January 2002 Opening gloria1.pmx Starting first PMX pass Bar 1 ... Bar 59 Done with first pass Starting second PMX pass Bar 1 ... Bar 19 Bar 20 Problem finding index for literal string

RE: [TeX-music] screwed up page layout

2002-03-01 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Don Simons wrote: Meanwhile, please try breaking the score in half and see if that gets rid of the problem. Yes, it does. There's just one miner problem: the first page of the second half doesn't get numbered. Numbering starts only at second page. Am I doing something

[TeX-music] screwed up page layout

2002-02-28 Thread Bernhard Lang
dear pmxpert(s) Using pmx2355 the attached pmx source (gloria from Brumel's missa Et ecce terrae motus) produces a screwed up page layout for the first and the last page It looks like this has to do with a bug which recently showed up and has been fixed in one of the latest beta versions There,

Re: [TeX-music] How to install musictex

2002-01-25 Thread Bernhard Lang
I've tried for a while now to install musictex, but haven't succeeded. My problem is that I don't know where to put the files. I've found the following at http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html but I don't know what to put instead of supplier/font/. .sty, .cls or .fd:

Re: [TeX-music] Ornament Doppel cadence

2001-11-30 Thread Bernhard Lang
I would need a trill sign that has the vertical slash in the middle of the third upward line. I probably could manage by a long serie of trial and error to create such a font, but I think this would be a waste of time when so many TeXperts or metafont wizards are around. I started to modify

Re: [TeX-music] PostScript slurs

2001-11-19 Thread Bernhard Lang
I strongly concur with the last statement: since the advent of dvips and gsview (years back!) I have stopped using any dvi viewer whatsoever --- the ps route is simple more convenient (both in Winxx and in Linux!). I encourage anybody who has not done so already to give a try, in ALL

Re: [TeX-music] PostScript slurs

2001-11-15 Thread Bernhard Lang
Assuming we don't find any show-stopping problems with the slurs themselves, one big issue is how they work in dviwin and other dvi viewers. In my initial tests they did not show up at all in dviwin. However I recall seeing something about specials in dviwin. Does that mean there is some

Re: [TeX-music] Sautereau

2001-10-17 Thread Bernhard Lang
A friend asked me this: what is the german word for the french Sauterau: Dans le clavecin, tige de bois porteuse d' une languette munie D' un bec qui pince cordes. I *think* this the piece which acually makes the sound, like the fingers which (push/pull/move/...) the strings of a guitar,

RE: [TeX-music] problems in compiling pmx with g77

2001-10-05 Thread Bernhard Lang
Hi Don 1. Maybe you could diff the source with the next earlier version that does work? The crash occures at a caesura ornament which you implemented in a very recent version. Testing against older versions won't help therefore. I've let my instable version run inside the gnu debugger. I

Re: [TeX-music] Newbie's experiences (2)

2001-10-02 Thread Bernhard Lang
again something seems to be incompatible with Don Simons's files pmxab.f, pmxab.c and the way SuSE Linux tries to compile. Compiling Don's original source pmxab.for with GNU Fortran g77 or converting it via f2c into C code and using gcc afterwards does not work directly. There are two lines

Re: [TeX-music] Re: ... No, I mean ..

2001-09-07 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Johan Tufvesson wrote: It can be done with PMX. There was a discussion on the topic (I think in May) that provided at least two different solutions within PMX (with or without some inline TeX). I'm using one of the solutions for a transcription, but unfortunately I don't

Re: [TeX-music] Oriental signatures

2001-08-13 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Samy Abbes wrote: Standard notation does exist ! In fact it's the same as western notation. The difference is in the exotic accidentals, and the numerous scales, including sharps, flats, but also half sharps and half flats in the same scale. The symbols are quiet

Re: [TeX-music] Trills

2001-07-09 Thread Bernhard Lang
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Joerg Anders wrote: I want to implement trills into noteedit. Unfortunately I don't know exactly how to play them. I think it is an 32th alternation between the note with trill and the next semitone. But is it the semitone above or the semitone below ? Or are there 2

[TeX-music] scor2prt problem

2001-06-13 Thread Bernhard Lang
Hi all I've a question concerning scor2prt. I've typeset a piece with one solo voice accompanied by piano. The piano part is in general a four voice part set on two lines, but sometimes only three voices (still on two steves, of course). When I run scor2prt the first output file contains the two

Re: [TeX-music] clusters

2001-06-11 Thread Bernhard Lang
How can I do the following with MusiXTeX? 1) Intervals of not perfect firsts (see attached example), Wow - this seems really hard. I think it cannot be accomplished on the fly because TeX is unable to draw arbitrary sloped lines. After all, I can imagine these solution approaches: (a)

[TeX-music] midi-wave

2001-04-24 Thread Bernhard Lang
hello all This is not really a TeX-music question, but anyhow maybe someone of you out there knows an answer: Are there programs available for generating sound files in wave (.wav) format from midi-files? thanks Bernhard ___ TeX-music mailing list

[TeX-music] sunsite down?

2001-04-18 Thread Bernhard Lang
I can't connect to sunsite.dk any more (http/ftp/ping) since yestersay evening. Is is down or is this a problem of my network config? regards Bernhard ___ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music