Re: [Tex-music] Swing

2011-04-10 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
I think I can do what you want in MusiXTeX with the ossia philosophy. I used the tuplet package, but it seems if I want to shorten the tuplet length the gap which accomodates the '3' diseappears. Regards, Jean-Pierre Coulon cou...@obs-nice.fr\input musixtex \input tuplet

Re: [Tex-music] Swing

2011-04-10 Thread David Allsopp
Jill-Jênn VIE wrote: Is there a way in PMX (or, I bet, rather MusiXTeX) to put the well-known swing tempo indication: http://totalguitarist.com/lessons/reading/notation/guide/notes-and- rhythm/swung-8th-notes.gif ? Afraid I don't quite have enough time this morning to try it myself, but in

Re: [Tex-music] Swing

2011-04-10 Thread Olivier Vogel
Here is another way of achieving it (with PSTricks): --- \input pstricks\relax \input pst-node\relax \input musixtex\relax \input musixlyr\relax \setlyrics{solo}{% No-bo-dy knows the trou-ble I see No-bo-dy knows my sor-row} \assignlyrics{1}{solo} \setsongraise{1}{2\internote}

Re: [Tex-music] musixflx in Lua

2011-04-10 Thread David Allsopp
Bob Tennent wrote: Last November, Dirk Laurie suggested that we should be porting the M- Tx/PMX/musixtex/musixflx toolchain to LuaTeX. I won't review his arguments here, but I'm pleased to report that Nikhil Helferty, a student here, has successfully converted musixflx.c (version 0.83.3) to

Re: [Tex-music] musixflx in Lua

2011-04-10 Thread Bob Tennent
|i had, in fact, vaguely thought of making musixflx into a separate ctan |package (it's already separate from musixtex in the distributions, |brought in by their requirement directives[*]). | |doing that would involve breaking your structure, but i think it would |add clarity to the

Re: [Tex-music] musixflx in Lua

2011-04-10 Thread Bob Tennent
| It should be functionally identical to musixflx.c (up to round-off |error). | |Is this just a throw-away line or are there actual systemic differences |in the precision of the floating point variables used? Floating point |calculations are a CPU function - it would be beneficial if the

Re: [Tex-music] musixflx in Lua

2011-04-10 Thread Dirk Laurie
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:55:58PM +0200, David Allsopp wrote: Bob Tennent wrote: It should be functionally identical to musixflx.c (up to round-off error). Is this just a throw-away line or are there actual systemic differences in the precision of the floating point variables used?