Re: [Tex-music] Fine tuning of staff distance in PMX

2015-02-08 Thread Don Simons
Dieter-- Vertical spacing is very tricky to control. I'm guessing from what you wrote that you did not use M-Tx. Dirk did build some stuff into M-Tx to deal with this but I've never taken the time to understand it. I've also put some stuff into PMX, some documented (Ae) and some not (but in

Re: [Tex-music] Fine tuning of staff distance in PMX

2015-02-08 Thread Dirk Laurie
2015-02-08 20:22 GMT+02:00 Don Simons dsim...@roadrunner.com: Dirk did build some stuff into M-Tx to deal with this The two commands in mtx.tex used for this purpose are: \def\mtxInterInstrument#1#2{\setinterinstrument{#1}{#2\Interligne}} \def\mtxStaffBottom#1{\staffbotmarg #1\Interligne}

[Tex-music] Fine tuning of staff distance in PMX

2015-02-08 Thread Dieter
Hi PMXperts, if you have time, please have a look at the attachment, which I produced with PMX and MusixLyr. It doesnot look too bad, but I would like to put a bit more space between staves for the verses and less space, when there are no verses, and hopefully preserve the two-page layout.

Re: [Tex-music] Fine tuning of staff distance in PMX

2015-02-08 Thread Andre Van Ryckeghem
I suppose you use 4 instruments You may change the space between the staffs by using ie. AI.8 Then the space above instrument 1 and 3 must be larger: \\setinterinstrument1{5\Interligne}\ \\setinterinstrument3{5\Interligne}\ You may try to make space above intrument 2 smaller(negatieve number is

Re: [Tex-music] Fine tuning of staff distance in PMX

2015-02-08 Thread Don Simons
Andre and Dirk's suggestions will probably work. But before I installed the Ae option in PMX, whenever I tried these sorts of adjustments I would very often have problems with systems spilling over onto an extra page. I wanted Dieter to send me his source, first to confirm my suspicion that he had