Luigi Cataldi wrote:
> I am a beginner MusiXTeX user. Here is my first MTX code for Giovanni
> Legrenzi's Alto Cantata "Ad altro amante in seno". I need some help for
> following questions.
> 1) I want to increase the distance between "Singer" and "LH" staves and
> decrease distance from "LH" and "RH".
As long as you insist to keep the piano as one musixtex instrument you may
manipulate distance between its staves by altering the value of \interstaff, see
musixtex doc 2.20.3, e.g.
%% \\let\interstaffsav\interstaff\def\interstaff#1{}\interstaffsav{12}\
> 2) I want to increase distance beetween systems
In principle you should be able to do that using the preamble command 'space'. I
have inserted it into my proposals for your score (see below) but strangely enough
it seems to be in effect only from the second paragraph. I don't understand why -
I almost always use it in my own scores, see my entries in the GMD scores web
page. Maybe it will adjust when all paragraphs are activated. I've commented out
most of your's because your linebreaks have been corrupted either by your or my
mail programmes.
> 3) General Bass is made by me (and errors too!)
Without knowledge of your score beyond bar 6 - as explained above - I'm surprised
by the a major six-four chord in bar 6. I would rather expect a f# minor sixth
chord there.
> . Is there a way for to reduce note size or the whole staff "RH"?
According to the musixtec docs it is not possible to have different sizes within
an instrument. But if you replace your single piano with a two different
instruments as I've done in my proposal you are able to use \setsize
I propose another, more m-tx like way of implementing your piano right hand chords
using the m-tx C: chord line facility. Like it's pmx counterpart z<note name> no
ties are allowed and therefore I - like yourself - have to insert musixtex tying
commands.
Title: Ad altro amante in seno
Composer: \llap{\names Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690)}
Indent: 0.12
Meter: C
%Piano: Voices RH1,RH2 LH; Continuo; Clefs G F
PianoRH: Voices RH1,RH2; Clefs G
Continuo: Voices BC; Clefs F
Style: Singer PianoRH PianoLH
Bars/Line: 4
Space: 6 0 2
Size: 16
Name: Contralto ~ Continuo
{Contralto}
Ad al-tro a-man-te in se-no
ir, not-tur-na e fur-ti-va
scor-se A-lin-da Fi-le-no;
s'im-pal-li-d\`\i, ge-l\`o tra' suoi mar-ti-ri.
%1-3
%%h
%%Recitativo
%% \\setsize2\smallvalue\
@+6 r2 a8 f f f | cs4 c8 d d4 d | r d8 d bf b b a |
L: {Contralto}
d0+ | cs2 ( \itieu1{3}\itied2{0}\ d | \ttie1\ttie2\ d ) d |
C: af ae af af btg
rb0 | rb0 | rb0 |
(t d0 | d )t(t | d )t(t |
%4-6
a a f+ f1 f f4 f8 e | e4 e r cs8 c1 e | a-4 r8 e+ a fs fd8 g1 |
d0 za zf | ( \itieu1{3}\itied2{-1}\ cs | \ttie1\ttie2\ c2 ) d |
C: af ae ae afs
rb0 | rb0 | rb0 |
d )t | (t a+ | a2 )t a- |
Regards
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Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer
Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus
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