Christian Mondrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>I have to voices in each pano staff and have quite a few clashes
>between the beams of the lower voice in the right hand staff and
>those of the higher voice in the left hand staff. All my attempts to
>amend the problem by increasing the space between the piano staves
>fail whether I use the M-Tx preamble Space or the pmx AI directives.
>The M-Tx Space works OK for spacing between a higher vocal staff and
>the piano staves.
I'm the first to admit that vertical spacing is a weak point in PMX.
AI was in fact a kluge to try to compensate for this. And it is only
intended for final fine-tuning. In particular, it will not work if
there are either too few staves on the page (if the nominal
\interstaff comes out >20, it is automatically set to 10} or if there
are so many staves and the adjustment factor is >1, in which case some
systems may spill over to the next page.
Best suggestion for now is to use in-line TeX to reset \interstaff
(which affectes the spaces between all staves in a system) or
\interinstrument, which is normally 0, and inserts extra space between
different instruments but not between the staves of the same
instrument.
>2. horisontal adjustment af accidentals.
>
>If in my piano staves I have a second interval between two notes from
>each voice I displace the lower note to the right. If there is an
>accidental to the lower note the displacement of the note causes a
>clash between the accidental and the higher note. I can't find any
>clues to that problem in the M-Tx and pmx docs.
Another weakness. There is no PMX command to offset an accidental, so
you have to use in-line TeX. You can use e.g. \loff{\bigsh3}\ if the
offset is one notehead width or \loffset{1.5}{\bigsh3}\ if it is say
1.5. The *is* a PMX command to inset extra space if needed: e.g. X1.5
to insert 1.5 notehead widths of space in all voices, and several
other option (RTFM).
--Don Simons
