[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> When starting a piece, how do I get a starting point more than one octave
> away without offending PMX?
>
> [...snip...]
>
> ...causes PMX to produce the following warning:
>
> *********WARNING*********
>
> ERROR in line 31, bar 1: Before version 1.2, +/- was ignored if octave was
> v
> r8 | c15+r su a1 e1 c1 a4 s c1r+ su a1 e1 c1 s a4 | //
>
> ^
> explicitly specified. May need to edit old editions
>
> Bar0 Bar 1 [...snip...]
>
c15+r is and always was fully legal PMX, but used to mean the same
as c15r whereas nowadays it means the same as c16r. The PMX message
is intended to help you in case you are re-PMX'ing an old score and
can't understand why the octaves suddenly seem wrong. In the case of
a new score the message is not needed, but PMX can't tell whether your
score is old or new so it issues the message regardless. Admittedly
ERROR all in capitals is a rather strong way of telling you about
something that conforms to the official language description, but it
does not annoy me enough to put code in M-Tx to avoid it. If you compile
your own PMX executable, it is always possible just to comment out the
line that issues the error message. Maybe after some time we can ask
Don to take it out himself, because by then it will only be applicable
to ancient, not merely old, scores.
Dirk
