> Maurizio Codogno wrote
>
>Am I correct in inferring that all stems point in the same direction
>even in the bars where there is not the second voice, or does it
>happen only on the bars with blank rests?
In PMX, the presence or absence of blank rests has no direct effect on stem
directions; it is the number of lines of music (1 or 2) on the staff that
matters. (One of those lines could of course contain only blank rests). If
there are two lines of music in a staff, the FIRST one (before "//") gets
downstems and the SECOND one upstems. If there is only one line of music in
a staff (no "//") then stem directions depend on note position relative to
the middle line of the staff. Notes on the middle line are given downstems
unless it is bass clef. If you want bass-clef middle-line notes to have
downstems too, use the command B (really a toggle). Of course, any of the
defaults directions just described can be overridden with "u" and "l", both
for single notes and beams.
--Don Simons
> :> (b) How can I specify that a system uses smaller notes?
> :
> :For "Stichworte" (small notes in parts which tells what another voice is
> :playing) I use as shortcut \snz\ defined as \def\snz{\smallnotesize}.
>
> certainly better than my own solution at the time, a command
> \Small{#1} which changed size to \smallnotesize and then again to
> \normalnotesize :-)
>
> :[Because you know MusiXTeX you can imagine why this is true. For the
> voice
> : in question \snz\ must be inserted whenever a new \notes...\en is used.
> : This is done, when a new duration in any of the voices occurs.]
>
> I hope that fine tuning of notes' position is achieved through ad hoc
> skips, then :-)
>
> thank you very much, .mau.
