I had already responded to the original query with a PMX solution. Maybe
"significant re-coding" is in the eye of the re-coder:
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1 1 4 4 4 4 0 0
1 1 20 0
t
.\
c24 \loffset{1.5}{\lpar5}\loffset{1.5}{\rpar5}\ c+s<.4 /
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--Don Simons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob
> Tennent
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:28 AM
> To: TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org
> Subject: [TeX-music] Re: normalsized cautionary accidentals in musixtex
>
>
> >|> The commands \cna, \cfl, \csh, etc. in musixtex produce parenthesized
> >|> *small* accidentals. [...]
> >|>
> >|> [EMAIL PROTECTED] \smallna}
> >|>
> >|> Where do the parentheses come from?
> >|
> >|It seems that this question has not yet been answered; so, just for
> >|the fun to see how MusiXTeX works ... :-)
> >|
> >|The following macros are involved in a \cna call, in the order given:
> >|
> >|[EMAIL PROTECTED] \smallna}
> >|[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Na [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ur [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]
> >|[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]@xl }
> >|[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@sa\kern\accshift}}
> >|[EMAIL PROTECTED]@vii=\maxdimen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]
> >| \else [EMAIL PROTECTED] \fi [EMAIL PROTECTED]@}
> >|[EMAIL PROTECTED]@iv}
> >|
> >|That is: \cna sets [EMAIL PROTECTED] to \maxdimen. This is used just as a
> switch
> >|that is later queried by [EMAIL PROTECTED]; if the switch is set, [EMAIL
> PROTECTED] is called
> >|which in turn typesets character number [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the music
> symbol
> >|font. [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been set to 5 by macro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> before, and the music
> >|character with that number happens to be just the pair of parentheses.
>
> Thanks. And now I see why it's so hard to produce "normalsized"
> cautionary accidentals: the parentheses used come in pairs in the
> musix fonts and are either too close together or too far apart for
> a normalsized accidental. I suppose the "separate" left and right
> parentheses in character positions 3 and 4 could be used but that would
> involve significant re-coding.
>
> Bob T.
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