> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:06:49 -0800
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Gold)
> Even now, after using M-Tx for nearly a year, I keep running into
> situations that need the advice of more experienced M-Txnicians.
What's one year?
> I'm setting a song that has a different ending on the last verse.
> I wanted to indicate this with a volta, "last". I started out by
> naively coding "Vlast ..." and found that the volta label bumped into
> my Uptext guitar chord notations. So I tried different things and
> ended up moving the first note of the bar over 4 noteheads, the next
> 3, and so on.
I removed this and added instead inline-TeX "\\def\raisevolta{...}\" at the
very beginning. If there are more voltas you may use a local definition
at the beginning of a paragraph "\\\..."
> But even with that, the last note (a8) is too close to the bar line -
> it looks ugly.
You used a8r and moved it near the barline. But you may use PMX's "X.."
just in front of the optional bar line "|".
> One other problem I noted: I tried using Vx to get an open end on
> the volta, and I still got a box end. It doesn't matter in this song,
> but I would like to be able to control them in some other songs.
As far as I can see "Vx" doesn't work at the end of a piece. I tried
this with the PMX source and it didn't work. But with a bit of MusiXTeX
knowledge you may replace the next PMX-generated \endvoltabox by \endvolta.
Maybe we should ask Don Simons whether it is a well-know error or a case
of RTFM.
I added a re-definition of \shiftbarno which resolves the conflict
between the bar numbers and the chord names.
I commented out "\input ...", because I didn't have that file, and
\twolines which is undefined (as a consequence?).
I append the modified source.
-- Werner
PS: instead of "Ar" I recommend "Arb" because I don't like a mixture of
big an small accidentals.
Meter: 4/4
Sharps: 1
Style: SINGER
Space: 8
% Bars/Line: 6
Pages: 1
Systems: 6
%% h9.8i
%% w7i
%% Ar
%%%\\input bdgmusic\
%% \\pageno=6\
%% \\headline{\twelverm XenoFilkia \#xx\hfill page XX}\
%%%\\twolines\
%% \\line{\twelverm ~\hfill}\
%% \\line{\twelverm FIFTY YEARS AGO\hfill}\
%% \\line{\twelverm Words and Music \copyright~1997 by Mordewis ap Llys\hfill}\
%%
%% \\def\raisevolta{8\internote}\
%% \\def\shiftbarno{0pt}\
%% \\let\endvoltaboxsav\endvoltabox\
%%
\\def\endvoltaforendfvoltabox{\gdef\endvoltabox{\global\let\endvoltabox\endvoltaboxsav\endvolta}}\
U: G | D | Am
@+6 b8 c d4 e | d0 | r4 c8 b a4 g |
L: Fif-ty years a-go, I was in my
U: D | G | D | Am
b a8 ( a8 a2 ) | r4 b8 c d4 e | d0 | r8 c8 c b a4 g |
L: u-ni-form Look-ing in your eyes they ne-ver seemed so
U: D | G | C | Em | D
b a g.f | ( g0 | g0 ) | r4 r8 e8+ e4 b | ( d0 | d0 ) |
L: beau-ti-ful be-fore. so large and warm...
U: | Em | D | Am
r0 | r4 r8 e8 e4 f | d0 | r8 b8 [ c8 b ] a4 g |
L: Your face your form... I didn't know I
U: D | G D G C G
b4 a g a | b c b.a | ( g0 | g0 ) | r0 |
L: wan-ted so much fif-ty years a-go.
%%L6
U: G D G C G
Vlast b4 c bd a8r X.5 | g0 |
L: fif-ty years a-go.
% X4S b4 X3S c X2S bd ar | g0 |
U: D | G
r4 d8 d8 [ b+ a ] [ b f ] | ( g0 | \endvoltaforendfvoltabox\ g0 )
L: Fif-ty years a-go.
