During my attempts to typeset a choir composition of my own with M-Tx
I've run into a couple of problems which maybe more experienced members
of this list will be able solve. I use M-Tx and pmx with MiKTeX 1.11
beta 1.
The text of my composition - written in a danish peasant dialect by the
poet Jeppe Aakj�r - uses like other danish texts characters outside the
standard ASCII charset. A TeX guru has told me how to enter these
characters, e.g. � (o-slash) as \o. M-Tx as well as pmx seem to accept
that as OK but at the first TeX parse it is rejected. My workaround for
this problem was to group these characters as show in the following
example (Style: SATB4).
A special problem arose, however, in the second paragraph of my
composition where the first syllable of the lyrics in each part begins
with {\o}.
b4 cs8 d c4 c8 a | fds2 g8 e |
L: {\o}wn ka ett wal skimm {\ae} Dar, og wor
fs4 es8 f ( a gs ) g cs- | cs4 e8 d c4 e8 e |
L: {\o}wn, og wor {\o}wn ka ett wal skimm {\ae} Dar, og wor
b4 a8 gs ( a b ) cs b | b4 cs8 b a4 b8 b |
L: {\o}wn, og wor {\o}wn ka ett wal skimm {\ae} Dar, og wor
( e8 d ) cs b c4 ds8 es | fsd2 e8 g |
L: {\o}wn, og wor {\o}wn ka ett wal skimm {\ae} Dar, og wor
The text processing stopped at first TeX parse with this error:
D:\Christian\Musik\TeX\Aakjaer>tex kjer2
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (MiKTeX 1.11 beta 1)
(kjer2.tex
Babel <v3.6h> and hyphenation patterns for english, german, loaded.
M-Tx 0.40a (Music from TeXt) <12 June 1998>
(musixtex.tex
MusiXTeX(c) T.88 <25 February 1998>
) (pmx.tex
PMX, a Preprocessor for MusiXTeX, v1.3.8 <9 May 1998>
) (musixlyr.tex
MusiXLYRics 1.1 <18 December 1997>
) (musixtex.tex) (pmx.tex) (musixmad.tex (musixadd.tex
MusiXADDitional instruments T.79 <24 September 1997>
)
MusiXMore ADditional instruments T.79 <24 September 1997>
) bar 0 bar 1
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
\o
\reset@params ...#2}\global \csname stp@#1
\endcsname =\y@v \global \e...
\iterate ->\body
\let \next \iterate \else \let \next \relax \fi \next
l.78 \assignlyrics4{\o}
w,11}%
The only way to avoid this problem I could think of was to remove the
offending {\o} from the start of the lyrics line by concatenating the
two first paragraphs. But I don't like the resulting long paragraph.
I suppose there are better ways to handle the problem.
The metrum of my text is a little free as to the unaccentuated
syllables. This caused me some trouble until I saw the release notes of
M-Tx 0.40a explaining the meaning of (( ) slurs as non-melismatic.
Using them I can fake missing syllables in the text with an extra space
{} and have two syllables pr slur in one verse and one in another.
I miss a POET label among the preamble commands. When I make fine prints
of my finished scores I always print the composer's as well as the
poet's name at the first staff.
One last question: how do I tell M-Tx to print the abbreviated voice
labels from the style SATB4 at the beginning of staffs after the first
system ?
Regards
--
Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer
Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus
Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
Phone: +45 89 49 53 01, Telefax: +45 89 49 60 07
