Barry Gold wrote:
>
> I'm trying to do two things I've never tried before. One is to
> produce a "downtext" line - using @v as described in section 4.2 of
> the M-Tx guide. I commented it out below after discovering that it
> wasn't producing any output.
>
At present there can be only one uptext line per voice. So the
second uptext line just wipes out the first. If you put
U:@+1 Quick~and~lively* ~ @v mf
you get the required downtext. In this case it is OK because the mf
anyway looks better near the first note than under the half-note rest,
but I'll think about allowing more than one uptext line in future.
> The second thing is to use the PMX "l" key to add text below the
> staff, as described under "text" in section 2.3 of the PMX guide.
> Now, actually, I don't have any realistic expectation that this
> construct can get through M-Tx, considering that the text line has to
> be on the _following_ line, which probably looks to M-Tx like I'm trying
> to code an extra line of music there.
>
The trick to do what you need is documented in a nice little contribution
by Christian Mondrup to the M-Tx 0.50 manual.
> Also, the + sign (footnote mark) at the end of the "lyrics" doesn't look
> right. Suggestions on TeX coding to make it look like a footnote
> mark?
L: me (Whoo-whoo!)$^+$
or even better ... $^\dagger$
I've been looking at the TeXbook for info on footnotes, but
> everything is behind "dangerous bend" signs which suggests folks like
> me shouldn't try to mess in there.
>
> The label on my first volta doesn't quite look right either. Any
> ideas? Do you think I should insert a thinspace somewhere or adjust
> the font? My second volta has a box ending even though I put a Vx
> after it. Why?
>
(a) Try V1.--7 instead of V1-7. Fiddling with the font is tricky but
possible, e.g. put \\let\BF\bf\ on one of your %% lines and then
V\BF1.--7 and V\BFb8 is possible and looks quite nice. But \bf on its
own confuses PMX.
(b) Put the Vx immediately after the bar line, before the f2.
Dirk
