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> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:27:49 +0200 (MET DST)
>
> In setting music from J.S. Bach, using PMX, I had the following difficulties:
>
> 1) [...]
> 2) I found no way to get a grace note not in the pitch range of the previous
> note into the correct place.
Imho it's correctly notated to appear an octave lower than it appears.
Imho it's a PMX error.
You may specify a pitch. So "Gsa3f" instead of "Gsaf-" circumvents the
problem.
There's another similar problem with grace notes: "Gsaf--" is not
accepted by PMX.
> 3) PMX did not accept 3/64th triplet (occurs in BWV1052 II).
My PMX accepted "e1d d3x3". I use version 1.3.8.
> 4) Neither it was possible to set 1/128th notes (occurs in BWV1052 II).
>
> There are probably many experienced withards that know a better way
> than editing the .tex-file and/or the final printout.
> (For the 1/128th notes there is little hope because it is not
> implemented in MusiXTeX.)
If I can count then a 128th has 5 beams or flags. You get them with
musixtex by \input musixbm. There are 256th notes, too, but only as
beamed notes (opposite to musixdoc.tex, which tells that there is
e.g. \ccccccu, too; but as far as I can see the needed 6-flagged stem
is not in the font musix20).
I, too, think that it would be a good idea, to have them in PMX and
to request them by "5" - five flags, 5 beams. 5 seems to be free.
Let's ask Don, to put it on the to-do list.
And it's required for Baroque music and by keyboardists :-)
An In-line-TeX circumvention - as usual:
%g85 s g3 s b a g fs e d c b c c ot b6 c d b g fs g d b c d c b c
\\input musixbbm\
\\let\qbsav\qb\
\\let\nbbbblsav\nbbbbl\
\\def\qbpasqb{\def\qb##1##2{\let\qb\qbsav\qbp{##1}{##2}}}\
\\def\nbbbbblasnbbbbl{\def\nbbbbl##1{\let\nbbbbl\nbbbblsav\nbbbbbl##1}}\
g85 s g3 s b a g fs e d c b c \qbpasqb\ c ot \nbbbbblasnbbbbl\ b6 c d b g fs g d b c d
c b c
Maybe you should add e.g. X.2 in front of "b6"
-- Werner
PS: Which digit can we take for 256th notes? Maybe none. They only
may be specified in groups of at least two and can then be
specified as e.g. "c5x2" or "c5.c"
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