| Unfortunately, this solution has bad consequences if one tries to use
| \centerbar to center other things, such as \wh j.
|
|
|On 5/19 Bob privately sent me proposed changes for pmx.tex to go with the
|new definition of \centerbar. Without going into the detailed coding, I'll
|report that
|If one inserts \let\adv@box\hbox before #1,
|then \centerpause, \centerhpause, \centerPAuse, etc. are
|all correctly centered. Jean-Pierre's definitions aren't
|necessary but won't affect the operation of a revised
|\centerbar. All the multi-bar rests in Werner's rests.tex
|are improved by
From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Bob
Tennent
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 2:23 PM
To: Bob Tennent
Cc: tex-music@tug.org
Subject: Re: [Tex-music] bar-centered rests
|If one inserts \let\adv@box\hbox before #1, |then \centerpause,
\centerhpause
|PMX does use \centerbar\pausc, and the new definition
|does break the centering. Redefining \pausc in
|musixtex.tex would not work unless pmx.tex were also
|modified. So if you do decide to go forward with
|redefining \centerbar, it would be less of a nuisance
|overall to leave pmxab.for
|I note, though that among the exceptions listed at the
|top of mtx.tex there is code to achieve a multi-bar
|rest.
|
|Hopefully Bob's modified \centerbar will make that easier
|too.
Dirk: As far as I can tell, prepmx doesn't generate
\centerbar. It generates \mbrest which is defined in
|\pausc is defined in pmx.tex as
|\def\pausc{\lrlap{\pause\off{\qn@width}}}%
|
|I have checked that this does perfectly center the pause
|symbol between the bar lines.
|
|So, in an abundance of caution, I'd just like to ask that
|nothing be done to MusiXTeX that changes the way this
Of Bob
Tennent
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 9:04 AM
To: tex-music@tug.org
Subject: Re: [Tex-music] bar-centered rests
|So we now have three possible re-definitions of |\centerpause. I'm
guessing that all of them compensate for |the fact that \centerbar does
*not* center its argument
[mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Bob
| Tennent
| Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 9:04 AM
| To: tex-music@tug.org
| Subject: Re: [Tex-music] bar-centered rests
|
|
| |So we now have three possible re-definitions of |\centerpause. I'm
| guessing that all of them compensate
9:04 AM
| | To: tex-music@tug.org
| | Subject: Re: [Tex-music] bar-centered rests
| |
| |
| | |So we now have three possible re-definitions of
| |\centerpause. I'm
| | guessing that all of them compensate for |the fact that \centerbar
| |does
| | *not* center its argument, |which would
2015-05-19 6:24 GMT+02:00 Don Simons dsim...@roadrunner.com:
So if you do decide to go forward with redefining
\centerbar, it would be less of a nuisance overall to leave pmxab.for alone
and redefine \pausc and \PAusc in pmx.tex.
Long ago, for this sort of reason, I reduced the amount of
On Sun, 17 May 2015, Bob Tennent wrote:
Wouldn't you need separate macros for each instrument,
and indeed every combination of instruments that might
have bar-centered rests simultaneously? Surely the \cpause
command I propose would be much more convenient.
Sure I have a macro for each
|you did'nt provide the defition of \cpause for me to try
|it?
Jean-Pierre: The purpose of my post was to ask that someone
with the necessary TeXpertise provide a definition in
TeX. What I've done is to provide a definition in my autosp
preprocessor:
Of Bob
| Tennent
| Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 4:09 PM
| To: Werner Icking Music Archive
| Subject: Re: [Tex-music] bar-centered rests
|
| |I am not happy with \centerpause because it centers the |left
|of the
| pause symbol instead of centering its center.
|
| Looking in musixtex.tex, I
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|I have a hard time remembering what happened yesterday, |let alone
15 years ago, so I'm afraid I can't provide |any help on the history
here.
I've looked at musixtex.tex from T73 (March 1997) and it has the same
apparently faulty definitions
: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Bob
Tennent
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 4:09 PM
To: Werner Icking Music Archive
Subject: Re: [Tex-music] bar-centered rests
|I am not happy with \centerpause because it centers the |left of the
pause symbol instead of centering its
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