Eckart Begemann wrote:
>
> Still I do not quite understand the behaviour of MTx
> concerning slurs when lyrics have to be attached.
>
> Therefore I enclose the file "mutexlau.mtx" which shows
> the source:
> The output lacks the lyrics at the end completely!
>
You have interlocking slurs, which confuses M-Tx. In fact, I don't
even know how to define what lyrics should do in that case. I can
see what you are trying to do: the usual M-Tx construction )( for
continuation slurs does not give ties, and if you use )t( only the
first slur gets a 't'. The easy workaround is to use (t and )t for
the beginning and end of the whole four-note sequence, and 'st st'
instead of )(. But I can see that this will be a common problem,
so I'll devote some thought to fixing it at the M-Tx level.
> Also the output shows a strange feature concerning the
> linebreads. It seems to me that the program which is
> in response of the linebreaks does not take the meter
> changes properly into account. Or which is the reason
> for the last line to be squeezed so much?
>
>
I can't help you here, except to suggest manual linebreaks.
Send Don the PMX file :-)
> I tried to fix the problems and came to the following file, called
> laudate.mtx
> 2) I do not understand why I have to give so many \beginmel \endmel:
> Should not the slurs be enough?
> 3) I do not understand why I have to give \lyricson?
> Who switched it off?????
You are only supposed to use specially labelled lyrics if the line
already has normal lyrics. So use L:, not LBasso:. And the previous
comment on interlocking slurs still applies.
> It reveals the following problems
> 1) I do not understand the Case-feature or the Only-feature (or both...)
"Only" refers to the actual physical lines of the paragraph, not the
logical music lines. The best way to use it is to have exactly the same
layout in each paragraph (padding short paragraphs with comments if needed).
> 4) Again concerning Case/Only: I tried to process the cervus.mtx of
> the distribution (mtx050a) but it does not work. It tells me
> some error message like "no music paragraph".
That was a problem with 0.50 and one of the reasons for 0.50a. I have
just checked it on Linux and on MS-DOS, starting with a fresh unzipping
of mtx050a.zip in both cases, and if I type in
prepmx cervus
prepmx cervus -0
etc, I get the correct result in each case. You must somehow still have
either the prepmx program or the cervus.mtx file from 0.50 still lying
around earlier in the search path.
Dirk
