Bob Tennent <r...@cs.queensu.ca> writes:
> According to musixdoc.pdf,
>
> These characters have cumulative effects but in a somewhat
> restricted sense. They will alter the value of \transpose,
> but only until changing to a different staff or instrument
> or encountering \en, at which time it will be reset to the
> value it had before the accents were used. (That value is
> stored in another register called \normaltranspose).
>
> In fact, with current musixtex.tex, the effect of these
> characters will also be undone automatically if used
> within a { } brace-pair or an \hbox. This would seem to be
> incorrect behaviour and I'm proposing making the changes to
> \transpose effected by ` and ' to be "global" and undone
> only as described in musixdoc.
>
> Comments?
>
> If anyone wants to test the proposed changes, here they are:
>
> \def\@ndstaff{\egroup\transpose\normaltranspose ...
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> \def\xgetn@i
> :
> \if '\t@ruc \global\advance\transpose\s@v@n \C@Get \fi
> \if `\t@ruc \global\advance\transpose-\s@v@n \C@Get \fi
> ^^^^^^^
Maybe I'd personally prefer leaving it as it is now. I often use ` and '
within braces, for example with \zcharnote, and I find it important.
Cheers,
Rodolfo
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