This post will raise a pure MusiXTeX question and a PMX question.
Here is an invalid PMX input file:
------------------------------------------------------------------
1 1 4 4 0 6 0.00000 0 1 1 20 0
6
./
rp-6 | g43 a4 b4 g4 | c0 //
c43 d4 e4 f4 | rp+6 | c0 /
------------------------------------------------------------------
It describes what I want to do, but is invalid because rp does not
take modifiers. What I want is:
Bar 1: music in the upper melodic strand, pause 6 internotes below
center in the lower.
Bar 2: music in the lower melodic strand, pause 6 internotes above
center in the upper.
So I need some inline TeX. Don Simons on July 29 supplied a solution to
the related problem of setting two full-bar rests, one above the other,
which I adapted without really understanding it, to give the following:
---
\def\lrp#1{\centerbar{\lower#1\internote\pause}}
\def\rrp#1{\centerbar{\raise#1\internote\pause}}
---
1 1 4 4 0 6 0.00000 0 1 1 20 0
6
./
MS1 \\\def\atnextbar{\znotes\rrp6\en}\ M
MS2 \\\def\atnextbar{\znotes\lrp6\en}\ M
r0b //
c43 d4 e4 f4 /
MP2 g43 a4 b4 g4 //
r0b /
c0 //
MP1 c0 /
This nearly gives what I want. The second \pause symbol should appear
on the second leger line above the staff (where the note E would appear)
but just hangs in mid-air.
1. To MusiXTeX experts: what must I do to get those two leger lines?
2. To PMX experts: why do I need to put the MP1 and MP2 in the block
after the rest instead of the block containing it? BTW, if I put
everything in one block I get the wrong result, even with bar line
marking it off like the above. I also get the same wrong result
if the MP immediately follows the r0b here: the first pause vanishes
and the second one appears in the first bar.
Dirk
