[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) wrote >Here's another thing that would possibly be nice to implement. I've >just been typing my first piece of music which was in 4-voice, >2-staff vocal style (SATB). If the top line (S) has any of the >following types of groups: > >( a4 b a ) >( a8 b ) >and worst of all: >( a4 b8 c a4 ) > >(i.e., a slur with either >2 notes or containing barred notes), then >the up-slur which results looks dreadful. Yes, one could consider >changing it to a down slur, but that would not work if there are notes >in the A line which are too close to allow this. What would be nice >would be to have some mechanism, either automatic or a simple user >marking (such as (^ in place of ( ) to indicate that the slur should >be placed above the tails of the notes instead of by the heads. We >could have (_ to indicate that the slur should be lowered to below the >tails for the lower voices, and if things are made automatic, we could >have (= to indicate the normal position by the heads. >From PMX's point of view, the thing that makes this proposal tricky to implement is that stem lengths or beam heights vary all over the place in response to multiple influences, often due to MusiXTeX's own adjustments after PMX has finished its work. (Conversely, that's why so far I've indexed all slur heights to the notehead). I'll consider this for a later release. In the meantime, I think there is some inline TeX you could use for beam-slurs, I'm not sure whether there are similar macros for single-stemmed notes, but there is the existing PMX facility for relative height adjustments. --Don Simons
