Re: [Tex-music] PMX: switch to smaller notes type (German "Stichnoten")

2019-04-11 Thread Don Simons
I'm not familiar with \boxit or \circleit and I'm not sure what you mean by "rehearsal marks". Maybe an example would help. But if they're text, you can put them anywhere you want using the D"..." command with vertical and horizontal shift options. --Don >Hi Don, >it is amazing how easy it is

[Tex-music] colour support in MusiXTeX?

2019-04-11 Thread Dieter
Has anybody ever thought about colour support for MusiXTeX and PMX? Regards, Dieter --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: switch to smaller notes type (German "Stichnoten")

2019-04-11 Thread Dieter
Hi Don, it is amazing how easy it is to use the cue notes with PMX.  I will try and fiddle a bit with the X-command. May I ask another question? I try using  \boxit or \circleit in PMX for rehearsal marks. But they always drop inside the stave. How could I move these boxes above stave? Or is

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: switch to smaller notes type (German "Stichnoten")

2019-04-11 Thread Don Simons
First, good job simplifying the procedure for making notes smaller. As for shrinking the spacing, once again I have a klunky answer but not a good one. The PMX command X can be used with a negative argument, so for example X-.5 will shrink the local space by 0.5 notehead widths. Problem is

Re: [Tex-music] PMX: switch to smaller notes type (German "Stichnoten")

2019-04-11 Thread Dieter
Hi Don, Thanks for your rapid help. I 'm sorry for being so imprecise. What I really wanted is this: This is an excerpt from the 1st violin of the 1st Symphonie of Mahler. Is there a way to compress the cue notes horizontally? Regards, Dieter

Re: [Tex-music] PMX stem length error on beamed octave chords

2019-04-11 Thread Dirk Laurie
This is a neater solution than specifying beam displacement. Thanks. -- Dirk Op Do. 11 Apr. 2019 om 06:26 het Andre Van Ryckeghem geskryf: > > I don’t know if you want the beam between the notes, but if not: > > I use forced beams (if necessary) with the chord note next to the beam as > first