Re: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines

2013-08-19 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
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

Re: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines

2013-08-19 Thread David Allsopp
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

Re: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines

2013-08-19 Thread Don Simons
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

Re: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines

2013-08-19 Thread Robin Fairbairns
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

Re: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines

2013-08-19 Thread Bob Tennent
|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