Hi,
as known, pmx can handle only a limited number of voices.
Werner Icking has shown how to set a partitura. I typeset
a partitura containing keyboard, wood and strings with totally
11 voices, enough for musixmad, but for pmx I had to split the
partitura into different files for strings, wood and keyboard.
A trial to merge the different voices put to TeX with pmx
turned out to be a Sisyphos work, because all slurs
and beams had to be renumbered and \notes ...\en parts had to
be often divided to smaller parts in order not to exceed the allowed
number of beams. Actually, it turned out that writing the score
from scratch would be less error-prone. To put in manually \xbar
and \alaligne to have an approximate alignment per line and gluing the
pieces together is a solution which does not look particularly nice.
It would really be a terrific tool to have
a voice2score program that would make the merging. Rainer Dunker's
musixser seems to allow merging of different voices; however,
I suspect that reading in twelve 11 voices of a few hundred bars each
into separate macros will exceed the TeX memory. And it is of course
not compatible with pmx code, which would also mean resetting the entire
piece.
What is missing is a preprocessor compatible with pmx code; it is
impractical to typeset every piece of music with a different code.
Has anybody an idea what one can do with the available programs?
Maybe I just not have yet the experience to see a practicable solution.
Christof.
