On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Don Simons wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to draw an ARBITRARY diagonal line. There's a
macro \varline in musixtex.tex that is used for xtuplet brackets, but it
doesn't work as I would expect from the description:
I use the macro in the attached file to draw dotted
Don Simons wrote:
Well, the coding in \varline is still pretty inscrutable, but there's a
comment in the version of it in tuplet.tex saying it builds up the line
with 10-pt segments, evidently from a selected character in the font
musixspx. So that explains why I can't get a line shorter than
David Allsopp wrote
TeX does provide a way - but sadly it's in the form of METAFONT! Arbitrary
lines is
one of the reasons for using PostScript specials (or MetaPost).
So it would be nice if someone who knows a whole lot more than I do about
PostScript and TeX would once and for all put
Don Simons dsim...@roadrunner.com wrote:
David Allsopp wrote
TeX does provide a way - but sadly it's in the form of METAFONT!
Arbitrary lines is one of the reasons for using PostScript specials
(or MetaPost).
So it would be nice if someone who knows a whole lot more than I do about
|I've been using pstricks for drawing various symbols when converting
|mensural notation part books to contemporary notation scores. A drawback
|is that pstricks graphics are not compatible with pdftex (nor with
|dvipdfm).
|
|When looking at the pgf/tikz manual pgfmanual.pdf.gz
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