Hello, everybody!
Although I have been using MusiXTex, PMX and M-Tx during the last months,
I have been silent: Which means I am still very glad to use the tools
which some idealistic people on the globe invented and put all their
skill on ... (I'm sure this sounds funny in English but you will understand
nonetheless.)
First I admit I am still using PMX1.52 (or 1.53?, anyway the last PMX-version
before the "unification" pmxa+pmxb=pmx200).
That's simply due to quite a large batch file package which I developed
during the last 2 or 3 years, offering me a more or less
comfortable menu-guided work with PMX and M-Tx.
I was too lazy to incorporate PMX200 so far.
now, I have got some questions:
1) lyr
I incorporated several M-Tx-generated tex-fils in a
LaTeX-document (of course after stripping off what is necessary and
using the music-environment).
The pieces of music coming after one piece with lyrics all
try to put some lyrics, in spite of the fact that they are not
supposed to.
\resetlyrics did not help.
It seems, as if musixlyr's memory works too good:
It does not forget its configuration outside the
\begin{music} .... \end{music} environment.
Instead it tries to endow all the "2nd instruments" of
the following music-environments, once it has been
told to do so in a previous one.
So it would eat up all the (possibly empty) lyrics
that exist (or do not exist), put a heap of '???' etc.
The problem looks very similar to the one
which recently an Italian member of the list reported.
The difference seems to be:
He was using tex (not LaTeX), so he had not the advantage of
using an environment, (which obviously does not work anyway).
I did not change the command \interstaff.
nor anything.
Does pmxtex.tex to that? Does musixlyr.tex change it?
If so, there should be a command switching everything
back, a command which does what somebody else coded in
a file called 'initmusix.tex' (or similar).
2) *.mx2
I used the same M-Tx-generated tex-file twice:
once just for tex-ing,
and next also including it in a LaTeX document
which has (of course) a narrower \hsize (=\textwidth).
muflex then has to be run for each document,
obviously because the \hsize is varying.
Just a curious question: Am I right in thinking that
this cannot be changed? At first sight one would think
that the information in *.mx2 could be purely a
proportional one,
but it is influenced by some hardspaces, so it *has to be
recalculated*?
I would be glad if I were wrong... :-)
3) PMX Grace notes
I still have the impression, that PMX (1.52...!) grace note
coding (Gf) does not accept an octave specification in
all cases (Gf+ or Gf- ). Has this been corrected to
PMX200?
4) PMX figures
Once again I insist on bugging you, dear Don, whether you could
invent a way to put figures like 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
In early baroque times, figures up to 18 have been used,
in Caccini (1602, Nuove Musiche) you would find '14'.
And it is a loss of information if you just switch this
figure to '7'.
5) documentation of musixtex.tex?i
Does there exist a documented code of musixtex.tex,
similar to, say, the '*.dtx'-files in the LaTeX-bundle?
