We're singing the Misa Criolla, and I was irritated by the fact that
only a full score was available for the choir -- in some places this
means one system per page. So I set about making a SATB score for the
choir only. The Gloria starts:
=== file gloria.pmx ===
2 2 3 4 3 4 0.0 0 1 2 20 0.1
Tenor/Bass
Soprano/Alto
60
./
rp rp rp rp rp rp rp /
rp rp rp rp rp rp rp /
m2424 rp rp rp rp rp rp /
rp rp rp rp rp rp /
======================
Not very exciting, I know, but the Misa does have leanings towards
minimalism.
The reference card says I'm allowed to use multi-bar rests in the
first voice, but there seems to be no sensible way of doing this
unless there happens to be exactly one voice.
First request: could some future release allow one to code the two
blocks as
====================
rm7 /
rm7 /
m2424 rm6 /
rm6 /
====================
(rule: multibar rest allowed if all the voices in the block have
exactly the same)
or better
====================
rm7 /
/
m2424 rm6 /
/
====================
(rule: multibar rest allowed only in first voice; nothing else
in that block; other voices must be empty)
Second request: in the meanwhile, can anyone figure out how to
kludge the desired effect with inline TeX? I tried without success.
(Two multi-bar rests separated by a meter change seems to be
much more tricky than a single multi-bar rest.
The rest of this post deals with scor2prt.
In an attempt to work this out, I fed the above score to scor2prt.
It produced:
=== file gloria1.pmx ===
1 1 3 4 3 4 .000 0
1 2 20 .05000
6
./
Ti
Soprano/Alto
rm7 /
m2424
rm6 /
========================
This score does not go cleanly through pmxa/pmxb. pmxb says:
WARNING
In a title block, you have specified instrument and/or
composer but no title for the piece. To suspend
PAUSE processing hit <ctrl-break>, or <enter> to continue. statement executed
To resume execution, type go. Other input will terminate the job.
If I then type go, pmxb finishes, but I get errors when TeX'ing the file.
(I'm still using MusiXTeX(c) T.80 <25 September 1997>.) Removing the
title block has the effect of making pmxa/pmxb run without complaint,
but I still can't TeX the result.
I also found that the scor2prt in pmx138.zip does not yet know the new
m2/4/2/4 meter syntax.
Dirk
