Can't speak for M-Tx, but PMX does not have any off-the-shelf method to do
barless music. For example, line breaks must come between bars. Whatever
you do in PMX, there will have to be an underlying pattern of meters and
bars. You could "fake it out" by setting the number of systems equal to the
number bars so as to get one bar per system, and perhaps tailor the meter as
needed, maybe as often as every bar. I don't think there's any limit on the
number of meter changes, but you would still gets vertical lines at the end
of each system. In addition or perhaps as an alternative you might replace
all \xbar commands by \zbar (\\let\xbar\zbar\let\alaligne\zalaligne\); I'm
not sure what that would do to horizontal spacing. Another consideration is
that if you stray from the standard kinds of meters, you may get wierd
beaming, but in PMX this could always be overridden with forced beams or
"alone"-notes. Let's wait and see what Dirk says about M-Tx, and if it looks
possible, then we can come back and iterate on the details.
--Don Simons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guido Milanese [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:55 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: MTX: no bars?
>
> I am using MTX --> PMX --> MusiXTeX to write choral music (very good
> system!). Now I would like to transcribe some Mediaeval lyrics, where no
> bars are needed (better, they would be wrong). Is it possible to
> persuade MTX to work without bars? Or should I use MusiXTeX directly?
>
> Many thanks,
> gm
>
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