> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 12:23:35 +0200
> From: Thomas Ruedas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
> thanks for your reply, but the problems remain. Back at home yesterday I
> tried \startpiece...\endpiece as follows:
>
> \begin{music}
> \setstaffs1{2}
[...]
> \startpiece
> ...
> with and without the music environment, but got a series of errors like
> these:
>
>
> ! You can't use `\raise' in vertical mode.
[...]
> I also tried
> \begin{center}
> \parbox{\textwidth}{%
> \setstaffs1{2}
[...]
> \startpiece
> ...
>
> which gives me similar errors at the \endpiece.
As I wrote earlier, I do not use MusiXTeX within LaTeX. So I can't
comment on the errors. But I assume that \begin{center} is in conflict
with MusiXTeX's assumption about TeX-paragraphs, and I know that MusiXTeX
does not react on \textwidth, but on \hsize.
[...]
> I also tried \linegoal=2 and ran musixflx with \startextract, but it
> shows no effect; I didn't try it with \startpiece because of the
> aforementioned problems.
As I wrote yesterday, \startextract...\endextract is independent of
musixflx and therefore independent of \linegoal or \mulooseness.
\startextract...\endextract creates always one line which normally is
output as centered line.
I tested that the MusiXTeX input sent yesterday works well outside LaTeX
with \startextract...\endextract replaced by \startpiece...\endpiece.
It generated one line of music with too less space for accidentals. This
can be corrected by adding \linegoal=2.
> Any further ideas? BTW, I have T.88 of MusiXTeX at home; do you think it
> is necessary to upgrade it to solve this problem?
One of the error message (I removed) ended up with \inline=. This normally
indicates that the .mx2-file is too short. This my occur if the .mx1-file
generated during the first TeX-phase is incomplete. Maybe it helps to
inspect the .mx1-file. For any bar within \startpiece...\endpiece there
should be some lines in .mx1. For any section started be \startpiece or
\contpiece and ended by \stoppiece or \endpiece there should be a section
of data in .mx1; a section in .mx1 start with a line "S". Maybe that
the .mx1-file is corrupted because of some grouping in LaTeX.
I don't think that your problem depends on the MusiXTeX version. But why not
upgrade? You have a high-speed connection to http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
Sorry, no to be of more help -- Werner
