Christian Mondrup wrote:
>
> % 3 - 4
> (( d4 d8 ) d b8d+ c1 b8 a | g2d r8 c8 |
> L: {vers1s}
> {{ ( d8d ef1 ) d8 } d d4 b8 c | c8d bs1 c8 d en4 r4 |
> L: {vers1a}
> (( b4 b8 ) b ( b8d a1 ) g8 f | f8d d1 en8 f g4 r8 e+ |
> L: {vers1t}
> {{ ( b8d c1 } b8 ) a g8d g1 g8 a | c2d r4 |
> L: {vers1b}
>
> The alto and bass parts of bar 3 contain slurs on the first and second
> note within forced slurs between the the first and the third note. The
> reason for the forced slurs is that the lyrics in some other verses have
> extra syllables. The forced mode of the outer slurs, however, seems to
> get overruled when the inner slurs are added. With the present lyrics
> for verse 1 I can amend this problem by removing the extra spaces from
> the alto and bass lyrics, but then I get the problem in the verses
> containing an extra syllable. The non-nested slurs in the descant and
> tenor parts behave as described in the M-Tx docs.
>
> Have I done something wrong or misunderstood something ?
No, it is a bug. And fixing it will not be easy :-( The bug seems to
occur when the phrasing slur and the normal one start at the same note.
Musixlyr offers very nice ways to treat different numbers of syllables
in different verses, but so far I have not been able to see how the
M-Tx syntax can accommodate them.
> It would be nice to have nested slurs drawn dotted to distinguish them
> from the melismatic slurs. I have got the impression that the latest
> MusiXTeX release 90 has the dotted slur feature.
>
I have thought about (a) the M-Tx syntax for them and (b) the semantics
of their implication for grabbing syllables. But at this stage I don;t
have answers.
> For the present score I want to force beams on 8'ths and may do so by
> executing prepmx with the -b command line option. But then four
> consecutive 8'ths get beamed together - at least if they run from a
> stressed to an unstressed beat. For a vocal score I would like to
> request beaming to encompass only notes within a single beat. I may do
> so by explicitly beaming the 8'ths on one of the beats in an 8 note 8'th
> group. But it would be nicer to have a directive requesting beatwise
> beaming.
PrePMX does not add or remove forced beams. Eveything is passed as is
to PMX, except that [[ becomes [. All PrePMX does is add an "unbeamed"
indication to individual notes, which can be suppressed by -b, What
you are asking is best done at the PMX level.
Dirk
