Some months ago I posted some fonts and a file musixjaz.tex with macros that enable typesetting in a way that emulates a jazz fake book. I've had very little feedback. Nevertheless, I'd like to point out shortcoming and ask if anyone is interested in pursuing a fix. I had created a book of original jazz compositions by a friend and myself (http://www.pchpublish.com/bbbxv/jasdas.pdf). While visiting him we played thru some of them with me on clarinet. It was very taxing to do the necessary transposition, so later I sat down and tried transposing the pmx/musixtex score. But I discovered that relative accidentals don't work :-( . The reason is that in musixjaz.tex, the macros \fl, \sh, and \na are redefined in a simplistic way to create accidentals in the jazz font. The challenge is to figure out a way to preserve the same functionality with basic untransposed scores, but also to get relative accidentals to work properly with the jazz font accidentals, so jazz scores can be tra! nsposed.
Any takers? A related and even greater challenge is to figure out a way to transpose the jazz chord symbols. --Don Simons ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
