> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 14:58:30 +0000
> From: Nigel Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
> I would like to use Musixtex to create small examples, a couple of
> bars long or possibly more.[...]
> My objective is to use TeX to generate a DVI and then process it
> through Dvips to Postscript and then via Ghostscript to a graphics
> format which will then be converted to a GIF and displayed in Html.
I did it in a lot of cases using PMX with a small width. I then
typeset each example as movement. If there was more than one
movement on a page I cut and trimmed each sample from the bigger GIF.
You can see many of these samples in http://people.a2000.nl/pgabler/
Look for "sheet music & recordings ..."
> My question is; How do I set up MusicxTex to use a small page size,
> say 1.5 x 4 inches ?.
Although I recommend PMX here's a possible musixtex solution:
\input musixtex
\hoffset-1in\voffset-1in\hsize=4in\vsize=1.5in
\generalmeter{\meterfrac{20}{16}}\generalsignature5
\def\Bar{\NOtes\qa{fg'abc}\en}
\nopagenumbers\nobarnumbers\linegoal2\startpiece
\Bar\bar\Bar\bar\Bar\bar\Bar\bar\Bar\bar\Bar\Endpiece\bye
The mini-page is now in the left upper corner of a "real page".
So you have to define a corresponding pageformat for dvips
and define this pagesize to ghostview ... which is easy using
MS-Windows Gsview/Ghostscript
Or you leave out setting \hoffset and \voffset and then trim the GIF
to the wanted size.
