On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Werner Icking wrote:
> I don't use this "semi-automatic" beams, because some of them seem to
> be in conflict with the pitch notation which uses "'" for entering
> the next upper octave or "`" for entering the next lower octave or
> "!" for resetting the octave. The reason is that some of their parameters
> are used more than once during the macro expansion. So a tranposition may
> be executed more than once.
Yes, that's one feature I wish worked (or could be set to work) the way the
original MusicTeX documentation said it did (where notes with the same
number of 's before them are always in the same octave). That's why I
write {!'a}, etc.
Jerome Colburn
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