Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Gold) at internet-mail
Date: 10/13/98 1:59 PM
Barry gold wrote
>the piece as submitted by the author has two optional notes
>in bar 5 (which I replaced with a half-rest and an eight-rest). He
>handwrote them as notes in parentheses, but I have no idea how to get
>that effect in M-Tx or PMX. I do see that I could do it in raw
>MusiXTeX using the \lpar and \rpar macros.
In PMX there are ornaments o( and o) that come out looking
suspiciously like left and right parentheses to the left or right of
the notehead respectively. They were intended to be used as French
baroque keyboard ornaments but might do what you want.
--Don Simons