M-Tx 0.40 is nearly ready. Present M-Tx users are asked to help
me find the bugs in the present version (0.39) before I go public.
The code has undergone a major revision, so some old scores may no
longer work, even though they should. So I'd like you to submit
some existing debugged scores, some scores that exposed bugs in 0.30,
and some scores that take advantage of the new features.
You must *already* have PMX 1.3.8, available from ftp.gmd.de.
You also need version 1.1 of musixlyr.tex (if the date on your
musixlyr is older than Dec 18 1997, it's too old). This is
also available from ftp.gmd.de.
Procedure: send a mail with your M-Tx file in the body to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You'll get either the error messages (if it did not work)
or the PMX file (if it did).
New features:
A. Support for some old and new PMX features:
1. Breves (double-notes) allowed, e.g. c9.
2. Slash-formatted meter change word recognized, e.g. m1/4/0/0
instead of mo400.
3. Your own instrument names in the preamble, e.g.
Name: Violin Cello
(one name per instrument, not per stave or per voice)
Default font is \twelvebf, but you can override it as long
as you use no blanks, e.g. \it{Soprano~1}
No need to say -n if you use this option.
4. Your own value for \fracindent instead of the default 0
or (if option -n is ineffect) 0.12, e.g.
Indent: 0.20
5. You can have more than one continuo instrument and it need
not be last.
B. Requests from [EMAIL PROTECTED] list users:
1. The return code is now the line number at which the error was
diagnosed (which may not be the same as the one where it
actually is).
2. Rests also pull a word from the uptext line. My apologies
to those whose existing scores compensated for this bug in
0.30, and who will now need to put in a few little snakes.
3. Start and end crescendo ( resp. decrescendo ) on the uptext line
with < and <. ( resp. > and >. ).
4. Barless music like psalm tunes: use e.g.
Meter: 0/2
Bars/line: 1
to indicate that each music paragraph should be a line by
its own. The preprocessor will calculate the duration, check
that it is a multiple of the counting unit (in this example,
a half-note) and that all voices have the same length. It
will then generate a blind meter change for PMX to use.
5. If your request has not been acceded to, it is not yet too
late. I may have forgotten about it instead of rejected it.
Email the list and let's all discuss it.
C. Things I needed for my own scores and therefore put in.
1. You can change lyrics paragraphs in mid-line, e.g.
f4 e {common} d f e2n e8 e4d
switches to a paragraph marked {common} after the first two notes.
I needed it for switching off lyrics in mid-bar using {}.
2. You can use tonic-solfa name letters d r m f s l t
instead of a b c d e f g. Some of these conflict with PMX
commands: in that case use e.g. "r instead of r to get a rest.
